How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life

A vim-like in python made from scratch. Contribute to vyapp/vy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yes, but it will help doctors, not replace them

So far, no cure has been found for Parkinson's. It is only possible to treat the symptoms. But a nurse in Scotland can smell the disease before it is diagnosed, and researchers are hoping she can help on the search for a breakthrough.

Growing up in Detroit, Bridgett Davis knew to keep her mom's work a secret, but in her new book, “The World According to Fannie Davis,” she documents the underground lottery business her mother ran.

One of the most iconic flip phones ever is rebooted as a $1,500 foldable smartphone.

Nature - Nature’s survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research.

Back in 1948, the journal Physical Review published a paper ennoscriptd “Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics” by a young physicist named R.P. Feynman at Cornell University. The paper described a new way to solve problems in electrodynamics using matrices.…

London blogger The Gentle Author's photographs of the growing trend to leave only the facade of a building while constructing a new one behind.

A small s**tstorm is heading your way, if you're in the business of running code on Intel computers. Here's a sad story about the state of computing in 2019. It'll take a couple of tweets, but it's actually kind of important (?), so please retweet so this…

A framework for how to think about story/IP-based media companies, the upsides and risks in story ecosystems, and the strongest bear case for Disney’s immediate future.

How the Go programming language helped Uber Engineering build and scale our highest queries per second microservice, for geofence lookups.

Engineers have developed a way to control balance in Little HERMES, a two-legged, teleoperated robot — an essential step toward enabling a humanoid to carry out high-impact tasks in challenging environments. The work was done at MIT and the University of…

Facebook, Google, Uber, Amazon - the biggest names in technology - are all in the same business: spying on you. But what does this mean? Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff traces the currents that led us here and asks how human…

This article explores a seq2seq architecture for solving simple probability problems in Deepmind’s Mathematics Dataset. A transformer is used to map questions to intermediate steps, while an external symbolic calculator evaluates intermediate expressions.…