The consequences will be felt far outside the Arctic in the form of altered weather patterns, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and rising sea levels, according to a major new federal assessment of the region released Tuesday.

The BBC carried out its biggest test of machine-generated journalism to cover the general election.

If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.

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As part of the sale, the Atlantic is making layoffs.

With its proprietary LiDAR technology, Intel says the new camera is ideal for indoor use cases that require high levels of depth perception, such as the automation of inventory management.

Rice University's MACH training system scales further than previous approaches.

New research and Facebook’s own ad archive show that the company’s new system to ensure diverse audiences for housing and employment ads has many of the same problems as its predecessor.

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer.

A new generation of reactors will start producing power in the next few years. They're comparatively tiny—and may be key to hitting our climate goals.

Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first, mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the ...

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"TRC" is a self-described bibliophile who has "pirated" thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?

California-based company Oklo has announced the launch of its Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in California, US.

We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

Abbott Labs makes a continuous glucose monitor — used by people with diabetes to monitor their blood-sugar levels — called (ironically, as you’ll see below) the Freestyle Libre.

Inspired by lit-html and HTM, and referencing the fantastically precise HTML5 spec, we built hypertext literal: a tagged template literal for HTML which interpolates values based on context, allowing automatic escaping and the interpolation of non-serializable…