The tablets aren't supposed to replace regular books, but similar policies have led to restrictions on book donations and price-gouging in other states.

Build robust front-end web applications in Scala with Scala.js

The full story of how I built Bloggi—from idea to launch to where it’s at today, including all the numbers, lessons learned, and what’s next.

A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.

We introduce SinGAN, an unconditional generative model that can be learned from a single natural image. Our model is trained to capture the internal distribution of patches within the image, and...

In the 2010s, celebrity culture was domesticated by a free photo sharing app, and the paparazzi were left stranded on the pavement.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD).

Tiny air pollutants may cause changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer’s disease.

Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years talk by Perry E. Metzger for EmacsConf 2019

Lee et al. IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment.

I’m a big fan of interactive tool support for programming. I often use features like “go to definition”, “find symbol”, compile error underlining, etc. Also, earlier this year, I launched Muon, a new low-level programming language. As no tooling existed beyond…

The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again

Prolific startup accelerator Y Combinator has abandoned plans to establish a branch of the program in China. The company cites a general change in strategy, but a deafening silence on the complexity and controversy of working with China right now suggests…

Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s long-running fight to block public access to a stretch of Pacific Ocean beach adjacent to his property got new life thanks to an appeals court ruling that could make it harder for surfers and sun seekers to get…

These $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them

HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Tightening control over efforts to manage the upheaval in Hong Kong, the Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the border and is considering replacing its official liaison to the…