The unprecedented bushfires devastating swathes of Australia have already pumped out more than half of the country’s annual carbon dioxide emissions in another setback to the fight against climate change.

Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors, the ride-hailing company announced today. Kalanick will officially resign from the board as of December 31, to “focus on his new business and philanthropic endeavors…

A counterexample to Hedetniemi's conjecture - featuring Erica Klarreich.
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Three years ago, I went to Sweden with my then-girlfriend (now-wife), to meet her family and celebrate my first Christmas. As an only partially lapsed...

Russia's alternative to the global internet would cut its citizens off from some foreign services.

A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers - Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking

Educators often focus on the language skills students who are still learning English lack, but bilingualism is a huge neuro-strength. The ability to speak more than one language means a strong, healthy and complex brain.

Activists in Lille recently demonstrated against advertising, while Grenoble has replaced hundreds of adverts with trees and noticeboards. Could cities remove ads altogether?

The researcher matched 17 million phone numbers using the Android app's contact upload feature.

Barefoot running shoes and shoes with extra cushioning seek to protect runners—but despite all the new technology, running injuries are no less common than they were 30 years ago.

We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 3.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.0.0. As always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our…

Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' unofficial PDF and LaTeX source - hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

After phages infect bacteria, they construct an impenetrable “safe room” inside of their host, which protects vulnerable phage DNA from antiviral enzymes. This compartment, which resembles a cell nucleus, is the most effective CRISPR shield ever discovered…

Hey, I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my ebook thought they were helping, but please don’t do that. That just means there’s a quality warning on Amazon’s sale’s page. It’s super not helpful, particularly when the issue is vernacular English.

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