A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus;…

Is friendship really all it’s cracked up to be, asks the US novelist

Stretching an extraordinary 3,700 miles from Washington DC to the Pacific Ocean, an ambitious new bike trail is aiming to be “America’s Main Street”.

Starring Keanu Reeves and hyped to the heavens, Projekt Red’s dystopian but glitchy romp has been pulled from sale. What went wrong?

This whole ad reads more like an ad *for* Apple’s privacy initiatives than against.

Why you can’t find the groundbreaking search engine AltaVista on the web anymore. Friends don’t let friends visit digital.com without knowing the truth.

A proposed wealth tax would apply for a decade to anyone who spends 60 days in the state in a single year.

I occasionally enjoy solving algorithmic problems, for example Project Euler or The Advent of Code. I’ve been doing them since I was a pimply PHP-slinging teenager, competing with my peers across the UK in the British Informatics Olympiad. It was terribly…

The Retraction Watch team takes a look at the most important publishing mistakes this year.

After an internal review, The New York Times now says it built the 2018 podcast Caliphate on a story it cannot vouch for. It says star reporter Rukmini Callimachi will no longer cover terrorism.

We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. While investigations are underway, we want to provide the defender community with intel to understand the scope and impact, remediation guidance…

Afghan operatives from an elite paramilitary unit known as 01 killed at least 51 civilians in previously undocumented night raids across Wardak Province.

While we might all enjoy the warm glow of helping out others or giving up a little of our time for charity, it could be doing us some physical good too.