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11,000 business books are published every year. Here are the three you need to crush 2020.

Amazon.com Inc. is blocking its third-party sellers from using FedEx Corp.’s ground delivery network for Prime shipments, citing a decline in performance...

Do you ever get that feeling like no matter how hard you work, you just can't keep up? This isn't a problem uniquely faced by modern knowledge workers. It's also a characteristic of certain software systems. This state — of being perpetually behind on intended…

A nuclear fusion start-up backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos raised more than $100 million to help design and build a demonstration power plant.

The Missouri city is the first major one in the U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation. Will a boost in subsidized mobility pay off with economic benefits?

Why personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive

Timing is Everything When we launched Octagon Therapeutics in late 2017, I was convinced that the time was right for a new antibiotic discovery venture. The company was founded on impressive academic pedigree and the management team had known each other for…

Amazon Logistics keeps growing at a rapid clip

Boeing said it would suspend production of its 737 MAX jetliner, marking an escalation of the crisis facing the giant plane maker that will ripple through the global aerospace industry.

After nearly three (!) decades of false starts -- I'm old enough to remember when the director of Demolition Man was once attached to make it -- it looks like a filmed adaption of Snow Crash is finally taking shape:...

Crux is an innovative database in the Clojure world.
What follows is an experience report.

An undercover tracking program is revealing the toll of the e-waste trade.

The U.S. has enjoyed its longest economic expansion on record without triggering inflation as interest rates remain historically low.

IBM update @IanPartridge and @Chris_Bailey let the group know that following a review by IBM of its open source priorities, it has been decided that they will not be continuing to work on Swift in 2020. As a result, they are both standing down from the workgroup.…

The waters off California's coast are acidifying twice as fast as the global average, according to a new federal study.