The BAIR Blog

A century-old concept, Flettner rotors, gets a fresh look as shippers cut back fuel

...for the same reasons why central banks want them - they'll make helicopter money, negative interest rates, and financial surveillance easier

The whales in the group seem to sing a unique song.

In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how

Like the subject says I just wanted to thank you for this brilliant solution to this annoying problem! I am starting to use Linode's managed Kubernetes and they don't have yet an annotation...

A Philadelphia-based remote pilot managed to accrue $182,000 in fines from the FAA. Renowned aviation attorney Jonathan Rupprecht says it's the second largest fine he knows of, to date, and explains how it happened.

A 2010 law is "a monster that has made accidental Americans pariahs of the international banking system"

Some investors, tempted to chase bigger gains, are borrowing against their investment portfolios, pushing margin balances to the first record in more than two years.

Unilever said it would resume advertising on Facebook in the U.S. after withdrawing over the summer amid calls for brands to protest the company’s handling of hate speech and misinformation on its platforms.

If you regularly read cognitive science or psychology blogs (or even just the lowly New York Times!), you’ve probably heard of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger e…

Early this fall, as companies began hiring executives to make remote work a long-term reality, a buzzy new job gained traction in Silicon Valley: The Director of Remote Work.

The Royal Geographical Society of London declared that bees are the most important living being on the planet.

In 1937, before a shot was even fired in Europe, Imperial Japanese forces were engaged in a long, bloody conflict in China – and it is during this period that we catch a glimpse of the atroci…

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

Multilevel-marketing companies rely on social media for recruiting. TikTok just became the first major platform to ban it.