The state should ban noncompete employment clauses that stifle innovation and limit available talent for tech companies.

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The idea of this post is to introduce and discuss several interesting research programs from the past decade. A research program (or programme) refers to a common thread of research that shares similar assumptions, methodology, etc. The list below contains…

If you pop out into space, you die. No oxygen to breathe, no ambient pressure makes your bodily fluids boil, UV radiation burns your skin...

What is life? This question keeps many people awake at night and has led to rafts of definitions, some involving features (procreation, metabolism and so forth), some involving chemistry, entropy or energy flux and some are of a more philosophical bent. A…

Why do boys underperform girls in schools around the world?

Bold Medya, a YouTube channel run by the German-based International Journalists Association eV (IJA), was shut down due to efforts exerted by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Social media expert Yasin Kesen says Erdoğan is now resorting…

The FCC didn’t have a limit for non-telemarketing calls before this change.

The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal about the spies' ambition.

Photographer Andrew McCarthy is known for shooting incredible astrophotography images from his backyard in Sacramento, California. He recently added two more jaw-dropping images to his portfolio: ultra-clear views of the International Space Station (ISS)…

Seven years ago, Apple made a staggering discovery: Among the employees at a factory in China that made most of the computer ports used in its MacBooks were two 15-year-olds. Apple told the manufacturer, Suyin Electronics, that it wouldn’t get any new business…

Here is a guest post from long time reader Duncan Dimanche on how to turn any camera into a webcam for $13, no app needed So all you need is an HDMI video card costing only 13$ or even less. And you will also need to buy an HDMI cable from your camera to…

In 1969, high-density MOS integrated circuits were still new and logic circuits were constructed in a variety of ways. One technique was ...

Former FBI undercover operative Joseph A Burton says that despite Justice Dept assurances that FBI's Counterintelligence Program was halted in Apr ′71 FBI continued as late as last June to employ program‐style techniques against domestic pol groups, series…