SARS-CoV-2 was detected in Barcelona sewage long before the declaration of the first COVID-19 case, indicating that the infection was present in the population before the first imported case was reported. Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater…

Yet another internal beef has emerged at the paper of record—this time over the alleged “doxxing” of the psychiatrist behind popular blog Slate Star Codex.

We combine Generative Adversarial Networks with learned compression to obtain a state-of-the-art generative lossy compression system.

The challenges the Search Infrastructure team at Twitter went through in order to reduce the search indexing latency to one second.

Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning.

LCC (Localization Cue Correction) is a solution for spatialized audio through stereo speakers. LCC is a lightweight implementation of crosstalk cancellation so your left ear hears the left channel ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the…

New research on asymptomatic people reveals underlying effects

According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author…

As someone who grew up throughout the 90's and 00's, some of my fondest memories stem from progressive advancements in internet and computing technologies. Upgrading from Dial-Up internet to DSL was a grand event in our house. I remember my brother and…

Summary of H.R.7178 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): CHIPS for America Act

Today we’re excited to release the beta of the next major milestone in the TypeScript programming language: TypeScript 4.0. This beta takes us on our first step into TypeScript 4.0, and while it brings a new major version, don’t fret –

And I’m OK With That

We are making two changes to our standard deal in conjunction with a recent fundraise. Starting with the Winter 2021 batch, our deal will be $125,000 for 7% equity on a post-money safe, and we will reduce the amount of our pro rata right to 4% of subsequent…

Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.

Why?

3 yrs ago, @neerajberry and I shut down @Sprig, which raised $60M from @GreylockVC + @socialcapital & grew to $20m revenue.

Then, it all fell apart.

For an honest story about…