One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your…

Group calls out ICANN’s “terrible blunder”. Internet Commerce Association is asking domain overseer ICANN to block the sale of the .Org registry to Ethos Capital. It sent a damning letter (pdf) to ICANN today that states what many observers are thinking.…

A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it?

Self-reported life satisfaction differs widely between people and between countries. What explains these differences?

The program uses state-of-the-art AI techniques, but simple tests show that it's a long way from real understanding.

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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.
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Pressed by businesses, interest groups and governments, the internet giant uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and an army of contractors to shape what you see.

David Heinemeier Hansson co-founded Basecamp (originally known as 37Signals) over two decades ago alongside Jason Fried. Basecamp caters to all sized companies, big and small, and remains popular for businesses of all niches. Hansson and the Basecamp team…

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Thirty years ago, Czech photographer Bohumil Eichler was working for a dissident student-run news agency when the Velvet Revolution began. His work from Prague has rarely been seen, until now.

Marion Stokes recorded over 70,000 tapes of television from the late 1970s until her death in 2012.

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One of the anonymous reviewers of my recently published Storage Combinators paper ( pdf ) complained that hiding disk-based, remote, and lo...

Founded by former senior Apple CPU architects, NUVIA for the first time publicly revealed its existence with the announcement of a successful first investment round. The company broke cover with the press release that it completed a Series A funding round…