U.S. stocks tumbled more than 5%, with the Dow industrials closing below 20000 for the first time since 2017, while oil plunged to its lowest level in more than 18 years amid rising anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic.

I will survive with my toilet roll in quarantine! How long will you last?

This is our most recent work, started and led by Aleksey Charapko . (This is a joint post with him.) You can get the paper at arxiv.org . Th...

Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition…

Cross-posted from the Chrome Releases Blog Due to adjusted work schedules at this time, we are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS relea...

I’d originally planned to write on this particular topic in response to increasing outreach to me personally, through my blog and other places, unsolicited, and independently from multiple communit…

What’s the better for dealing with pandemic disease: martial-law quarantines imposed by the state or keeping society open while trusting individuals, families, and communities to make intelligent...

More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.

New York City is working with the hospitality industry to possibly convert entire hotels into hospitals for patients without the novel coronavirus, in an effort to increase capacity at medical facilities as the outbreak grows.

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A study from MIT neuroscientists reveals how neurons in the brain’s retrosplenial cortex use both visual information and spatial feedback to encode specific landmarks that are useful for navigation.

What happens when Twitter engagement decides who’s in charge of the coronavirus public health crisis?

The least China could do is introduce higher food safety regulations, eradicate all wet markets and ban the wildlife trade, once and for all

I’m happy to announce a new ZFS boot environment manager written completely from scratch in C - zectl.

A fiasco in the making? As the #coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.