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The two taxi apps have faced scrutiny for how they handle incidents of sexual assault and other safety issues.

raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.

Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave.

Mainframes are still going strong after 70 years.

On December 8, 2016,* a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron…

Ravi Mehta and Zainab Gadiyali have brought together product leadership experiences from Tinder, Facebook, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, and more to develop the Product Strategy Stack.

How a simple mistake changed Erwin Kreuz's life forever.

Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows. Contribute to rbreaves/kinto development by creating an account on GitHub.

Few of its products remain, but C.R. Patterson & Sons was an industry trailblazer.

Two unnamed broadband or mobile ISPs are reportedly helping the UK Home Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA) to trial a new internet snooping system on th

It’s the key technology for remote work. We asked experts what improvements are coming—and what improvements they wish were coming.

A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim. Contribute to alevchuk/vim-clutch development by creating an account on GitHub.

In The Man of To-morrow’s Lament, rejected by the New Yorker in 1942, the Lolita author imagines the superhero mourning his inability to have children with Lois Lane

Without out a doubt, one of the most helpful tools when working with any browser automation library is a visual debugger. [We've written quite a bit about it](/blog/2019/04/18/live-debugger.html). Since browserless is built specifically for developers, we're…

How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here's why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.

Does the consumption of ideologically congruent news on social media exacerbate polarization? I estimate the effects of social media news exposure by conducting

The biggest known hole in the universe has left a cold-spot in the cosmic microwave radiation (Illustration: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA) Radio astronomers have found the biggest hole ever seen in the universe. The void, which is nearly a billion light…