Peter Thiel's Palantir was given access to NHS patient records that contain citizen's contact details, gender, race, religion, occupation, physical and mental health condition, as well as past criminal offenses.

They warned that the next great pandemic would be a coronavirus, but funding went to studying other threats, and coronavirus research withered.

In July 2018, Google was fined €4.34 billion for limiting search on Android phones. Almost two years later, its rivals claim little has changed and the company is as dominant as ever

After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they…

Hummingbird compiles trained ML models into tensor computation for faster inference. - microsoft/hummingbird

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term. What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be desc…

At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional antidepressants – and the results are likely to be game-changing, says Robin Carhart-Harris

What just happened in artificial intelligence and how it is being misunderstood.

The threat of decaying technology looms while we waste time talking about mainframes.

Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict.

One of our projects (cazadescuentos.net) uses web-scraping to scan several online stores to find discounts. Lately, we started supporting some stores that seem to block requests coming from common cloud proivdes (like AWS, DigitalOcean, etc), if you are curious…

If you plan on cooking tonight, chances are you'll be using the Maillard reaction to transform your raw ingredients into a better sensory experience.

Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge?

New research highlights the profound effect of severe social isolation on the brain