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Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions lays out the devastating impact of the shrinking and consolidation of local news outlets.

Car culture has already been changed by bike and bus lanes. A transportation panel in Manhattan has floated the idea of eliminating free street parking entirely.

I wrote recently about buying a Digital (DEC) vt420 and hooking it up to Linux. Among my observations on the vt420, which apparently were among the most popular to use with Unix systems, are these:…

A whimsical literary competition challenging entrants to write the worst possible opening sentence to a novel never written.

The legislation removes marijuana from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.

Fast.io streamlines file sharing for designers, marketers, videographers, and photographers. Drag, drop, and share with AI auto-summaries, noscripts, and denoscriptions - plus unlimited secure cloud storage and collaborative workspaces for teams.

Disables the WYSIWYG editor in Slack. Contribute to kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Sale comes within months of DNS overseer pushing through controversial contract change

Google Stadia has a lot of power behind the scenes, but for some reason the company is blatantly lying about the 4K quality of some of its games.

Governments’ wholehearted support for the fossil-fuel industry is to blame

The past decade has seen a remarkable series of advances in machine learning, and in particular deep learning approaches based on artificial neural networks, to improve our abilities to build more...

Today I'd like to blog about the nicest proof of Kleene's theorem that regular expressions and finite automata are equivalent that...

Apple’s latest laptop design shows it’s listening to its customers in a way it hasn’t in recent years.

One woman stumbled into a side hustle that’s resulted in hundreds of free Amazon products worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Restless mobility in search of opportunity is an American hallmark, but new Census Bureau data finds that more people, especially millennials, are staying put.

Software chief Federighi is overhauling development and testing of iOS 14 to make it easier to spot problems early.