In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions.

The ubiquitous Haynes Workshop Manual has reached the end of an era, with the publisher confirming it will no longer physically print manuals for new cars in favour of digital content...

Discover 147 Software Development communities online, like BuildSpace, Hacker Cabin, DevOps Chat and more.

I'm pretty impressed by what I've seen with Apple's M1 Chip. It's really fast
and powerful for essential everyday tasks, which include browsing the web,
working with Intel-based apps, and using programming apps. Yes – the ecosystem
is moving, and that may…

Growing AI readership, proxied by expected machine downloads, motivates firms to prepare filings that are friendlier to machine parsing and processing. Firms avoid words that are perceived as negative by computational algorithms, as compared to those deemed…

A leading US scientist, Prof Kent Berridge, has transformed our understanding of human desire.

Communications at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on SolarWinds, a security vendor that helps the federal government and a range of Fortune 500 companies monitor the health of their IT networks.…

Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself

The French Algerian writer steadfastly defended democracy and humanity against dogmatic ideologies of all stripes. We need to read and reread him today.

When people entertain transporting to the past, 19th-century Berlin, say, they don’t often imagine a dramatic shift in smellscape.…

Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about how there’s more to a pointer than meets the eye. One key point I was trying to make is that just because two pointers point to the same address...

Dec 14, 2020 I've been writing for probably a decade about how bad Google's GUI is for Google Analytics, Google Apps, and countless of their other

If you maintain a Go-based project that relies on XML integrity, we urge you to read this post carefully.

Invisible structures generated by gravitational interactions in the Solar System have created a "space superhighway" network, astronomers have discovered.

Introduction I've been on a bit of a floppy disc protection odyssey recently. This will probably be the last floppy disc related post for so...

Ole Peters, a theoretical physicist in the U.K., claims to have the solution. All it would do is upend three centuries of economic thought.

Sleeper trains in Europe are making a comeback after a decade of budget and route cuts. But post-Covid-19 and with travelers prioritizing the environment, the romance of the night train is back on track.

The Federal Trade Commission is issuing orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, requiring them to provide data on how they collect, use, and present personal information, their a

From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.