FDA is working to issue proposed product standards to ban menthol in cigarettes and ban all flavors (including menthol) in cigars.

Hedonometer.org is an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in real time. The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and measures how people present themselves to the outside world.

As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive noscripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.

When my kids were born, I immediately set up gmail accounts for each of them using their nicknames. I’d email observations to their accounts of their first everything, along with photos of moments captured on my mobile. As they grew, I sent audio messages…

Photo credit: Maxar Technologies/Wikimedia Commons _____On Monday afternoon, the Ever Given was floating again. After six days of excavation, dredging,...Read More

New recycling method replenishes lithium in electrodes while keeping existing structure intact – and performance is nearly as good as new ones

In August 2018, we wrote a blog describing several issues we found in Apple's CoreWLAN framework and the airport command-line utility affecting Wi-Fi scanning and monitoring in the 2018 MacBook Pro and other similar models. We also submitted the corresponding…

For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the U.S. government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior U.S. officials and private…

About an hour ago we held a company All Hands where I announced that we are laying off 65 Lambda School employees as part of a restructuring. I started Lambda School to create jobs and opportunity, which made the decision to make these changes very difficult.

Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tires to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate, sending millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean as pressure to speed deliveries raises the risk of safety…

GitLab CI Python Library (GCIP) used to create a GitLab CI Pipeline with Python 3.

I've always hated maintaining database servers. Litestream offers a simple alternative without sacrificing reliability or security.

This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our hosting infrastructure and walk through how we made hosting…

The city was strange and the society was unnerving, but what disturbed me most about my Dubai experience was my job as a business consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

Molecular Psychiatry - Habitual coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.