Sundar Pichai’s appointment as CEO of Google parent Alphabet effectively shifts the focus back on the company’s advertising profit machine and away from its “moonshots” and other potential new businesses.

New research from Washington University in St. Louis confirms that the brain tunes itself to a point where it is as excitable as it can be without tipping into disorder, similar to a phase transition. The new research from Keith Hengen, assistant professor…

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A new study shows the apex predators will flee their hunting grounds and won't return for up to a year when killer whales pass by

Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist.

The amuse-bouche is the best way … to express big ideas in small bites. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten, 2002 Such were the vagaries of what may have been the most powerful computer language ever hatched by a Canadian. Yes, I know that James Gosling, an alumnus…

For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls and have a weekly meeting with him, …

Robots have replaced thousands of routine jobs on Wall Street. Now, they’re coming for higher-ups.

Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search

Double descent is a puzzling phenomenon in machine learning where increasing model size/training time/data can initially hurt performance, but then i…

This paper is by  Abutalib Aghayev (Carnegie Mellon University), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc.), Michael Kuchnik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mar...

Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers.

For one short moment, some of the most powerful computers in the world could be hacked together with code, wire, and PS3s. 

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Googol Game or "You should learn when to quit". A JavaScript game. - victorqribeiro/googol

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is approving new drugs so fast that companies are now preparing for a green light months in advance of the scheduled decision date, a pace that’s helping patients with rare or untreatable diseases but raising alarm among consumer advocates.