How a search for the hidden land of Shambhala turned into a geopolitical power play.

December was a big time for 1980s computer and video-game magazines. Their shiny covers stood out at newsagents and magazine stands, hoping to encourage Christmas shoppers to purchase them as stocking stuffers for friends, relatives [more...]

In this second part of an interview with economist Jonathan Rothwell, he explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally.

Not everything was perfect in 1995, but I think we've lost something on the way. Some remarks: 1) Underlined letters indicate keyboard shortcuts. How handy! 2) Design clearly says: "We are buttons!". It's easy to find the wanted button, because they have…

A pair of researchers at Kyoto University has found that chimpanzees will spontaneously dance to music. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yuko Hattori and Masaki ...

In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a more than two-year block on access to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia in the country is a violation of freedom of expression.

Alcohol has been more valuable to our species’ survival than we might imagine

Faced with an existential crisis in 2011, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologized to customers and then set about leading investors on a historic run.

Canners and trucks converge in a shadow economy of the streets.

At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me.

Producing readable, idiomatic Rust code is a major goal of C2Rust, our project to accelerate migration of C code into Rust. One hurdle we faced is the mismatch between C headers and the Rust module system. C and Rust are similar in many ways: they’re both…

I realize everyone's twitter feed looks different. But I'll go ahead and subtweet two conversations that I see going by right now: a) How the heck did Shopify get so big this decade and b) You have to work 80 hours a week to be successful.

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