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.

Update: After some retweets about this issue, my domain is finally unblocked. (More details at the end of this...

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.

Ernst & Young, auditor to insolvent German company Wirecard, had questions related to unorthodox arrangements under which the company’s cash was held in bank accounts it didn’t control as far back as 2016, according to emails seen by The Wall Street Journal.

In 2023 every U.S. land surveyor will begin using a single international standard

A digital feed is an online stream of content which gets updated as new content is pushed by the feed’s sources. Generally, content is created by users on the social media platform, to be consumed by their followers.

The revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month so I've been studying its die. 1 I came across two 8...

A bit more than four years ago I started the xi-editor project. Now I have placed it on the back burner (though there is still some activity from the open source community). The original goal was to deliver a very high quality editing experience. To this…