Stephen Cameron spent 68 days on a ventilator but beat the odds to survive coronavirus.

It's part of structural inequality in our society, where we're building businesses that are optimized for their financial return rather than their return to society.

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Amid lingering fears of COVID-19, a “robot restaurant complex” has opened in Foshan’s famed Shunde District, serving Chinese fare, hot pot, and fast food to up to 600 patrons.

Radio signals from deep space: Astronomers including researchers at MIT have detected the first periodic fast radio burst from 500 million light years away.

The aim of this project was to display a colour image on a black and white monitor, by overlaying an acetate bayer filter (inkjet printed) over the monitor and mosaicing a colour image.



I obtained an Eizo B&W monitor from ebay, which I was intending for…

These are some of the common myths about Patents and Trademarks in startups.

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Last fall, European Space Agency satellites detected huge plumes of the invisible planet-warming gas methane leaking from the Yamal pipeline that carries natural gas from Siberia to Europe.

A new wave of regulatory fervor is rippling through Congress as representatives and senators alike search for ways to control online content they find offensive. It is all reminiscent of the debate...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said…

Cache-Oblivious Algorithms Cache-oblivious algorithms seemed incredible to me when I first heard about it in 6.854 (Advanced Algorithms). It’s relatively straightforward to imagine algorithms that utilizes information about page size $B$ and cache size $M$…

A visual introduction to probability and statistics.

I might be well behind others on this subject, but I’m trying to catch up. I just finished a book ennoscriptd Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: how microfinance lost its way and betrayed th…

America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.

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This evening the fantastic Kamal and I sat down to learn a little more about databases than we did before.

The "Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act" could be a huge blow to encryption in the US, and it could cause huge problems for both companies and users.