Much of climate research is focused on implausible scenarios of the future, but implementing a course correction will be difficult

When considering data privacy and protections, there is no data more important than personal data, whether that’s medical, financial, or even social. The discussions around access to our data, or even our metadata, becomes about who knows what, and if my…

Dishes will be modified for vehicles, vessels, and aircraft, SpaceX tells FCC.

Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.

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I understand why writers exhibit cowardice, but I don’t have much sympathy for them.

By harnessing randomness, a new algorithm achieves a fundamentally novel — and faster — way of performing one of the most basic computations in math and computer science.

Stephen Wolfram shares a glimpse into his conversations with Solomon Golomb, developments on shift registers, polyominoes, scientific contributions.

The hiring process could be weeding out able workers—especially women and minorities.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, he was forced to deal with a challenge that modern writers rarely have to confront—the problem of memorization. He wanted to keep wri…

The world often hands us what are called "wicked problems". These are settings where the rules of the game are unclear or incomplete. The patterns do not repeat and feedback is often delayed or misleading. The world is increasingly beginning to sound close…

How I self-published a professional paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc   Introduction After years working as a Software Engineer I wanted to