<p>In the foundations of physics, we have not seen progress since the mid 1970s when the standard model of particle physics was completed. Ever since then, the theories we use to describe observations have remained unchanged. Sure, some aspects of these theories…

A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds.

Tesla Inc. shares rose above $500 for the first time on Monday as Wall Street analysts played catch-up with the electric-vehicle maker’s share price, which has doubled from October.

The behavior of UC Global and the CIA seems indistinguishable from the government’s behavior in the Ellsberg case.

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extremely deep borehole in which high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors is disposed

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America is in the grip of a gradually building crisis of worklessness among men. It is not reflected in unemployment numbers, because the men involved are not even seeking work. But over the last half-century, the percentage of men not in the labor f...

We have open-sourced wav2letter@anywhere, an inference framework for online speech recognition that delivers state-of-the-art performance.

Browsing Reddit or StackOverflow and you come across numerous posts asking how to generate slideshows with FFMpeg.  Seems a common interest ...

"Healthy habits extend disease-free life by up to a decade," the Guardian reports.

HTTP/3 is the next protocol for network communication across the Web, which is meant to partially replace HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. One month before the next QUIC Working Group meeting, to be held in Zurich next February, it may be useful to recap what HTTP/3 promises…

Visa will buy Plaid for $5.3 billion as part of an effort by the card giant to tap into consumers’ growing use of financial-technology apps and noncard payments.