Google and Facebook help connect the world and provide crucial services to billions. To participate meaningfully in today’s economy and society, and to realize their human rights, people rely on access to the internet—and to the tools Google and Facebook…

In Western Australia, rooftop solar power has been a runaway success — but it now threatens to jeopardise the stability of the grid itself.

When it comes to programming languages, Arthur Whitney is a man of few words. The languages he has designed, such as A, K, and Q, are known for their terse, often cryptic syntax and tendency to use single ASCII characters instead of reserved words. While…

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In a previous article we’ve talked about how you can avoid rewriting a library in Rust when you don’t need to. But what about the times when you really do need to?
In most languages you’d need to rewrite the entire library from the ground up, waiting until…

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There is plenty of fraud and corruption in the world, even in the halls of science. No one has a monopoly. But there are some hot spots that deserve specific attention. Recently significant concerns have been raised about the published research of Xuetao…

School shootings have driven a booming school security industry. Parents and students are still grappling with this new surveillance and its impact on a generation of kids

Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell developers they can put up new homes.

Police are using robot dogs. Everyone seems interested but not everyone seems amused. The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Massachusetts State Police to explain how and where it is using robot ...

A new study shows that death rates increased for middle-aged people of all racial and ethnic groups.

Patrick and Tyler are obsessed with progress — and they think you should be too.

Introducing the Oxide Computer Company!

We started a computer company!!! The Oxide Computer Company started in my garage, this is a story about its origins.

A rash of car burglaries in California has one prosecutor declaring a crisis, but state lawmakers this year balked for the second session in a row at closing a loophole that is hindering efforts to get convictions in break-in cases.

Your laptop is way more powerful than you think. Unleash its full potential with the Vaex dataframe library.