Martin Thompson looks at the evolution of financial exchanges and explores what is considered state of the art today.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Today we're rallying people across the internet. Join in so Mark Zuckerberg hears us all loud and clear: it’s time to #StopHateForProfit on @Facebook and act against hate & racism. Enough is enough. https://t.co/dIe0UsHNPE

Leaker only 'a bit concerned' about getting sued

How does our universe work? Scientist Stephen Wolfram opens up his ongoing Wolfram Physics Project to a global effort. His team will livestream work in progress, post working materials, release software tools and hold educational programs.

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Blog post available soon on: https://security.googleblog.com/
Google Security Research Repository: https://github.com/google/security-research
Intel Security Advisory: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel…

Messy, rough, uneven. Honest, open, inspiring. How do you tell a "make-you-feel-good" book from the true story? Instead of arming you with rose-colored glasses and dragging you deeper into the wishful thinking swamp, like so many "self-help" books do,…

Quantum computers promises to perform certain tasks that are believed to be intractable to classical computers. Boson sampling is such a task and is considered as a strong candidate to demonstrate the quantum computational advantage. We perform Gaussian boson…

Twitter often makes me feel seen, but almost never more so than when a tweet surfaced recently identifying a phenomenon I'd long experienced but never named: "revenge bedtime procrastination." The phr

Build simulations in minutes not days. HASH is an open-source platform backed and built by the founders of Kaggle, Stack Overflow, Trello and Glitch.

The Alinea cofounder changed the restaurant industry forever. Along the way, he's ruffled some feathers.

While next-generation models in quantitative finance have illuminated the origins of market bubbles and crashes by incorporating herding and imitation behavior,

Nanotechnology company NTS Innovations says it has achieved a major milestone in its development of a...

At room temperature, micron-sized sheets of freestanding graphene are in constant motion, even in the presence of an applied bias voltage. We quantify the out-of-plane movement by collecting the displacement current using a nearby small-area metal electrode…

Nature Physics - This Perspective argues that ergodicity — a foundational concept in equilibrium statistical physics — is wrongly assumed in much of the quantitative economics...

Artifact for "Communication-Safe Web Programming in TypeScript with Routed Multiparty Session Types" - GitHub - STScript-2020/cc21-artifact: Artifact for "Communication-S...

There’s an old theory that memory is actually encoded in part in RNA. The argument is pretty simple: there’s no obvious way for all that sensory data to be captured in synapses as long …

Just like in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the answer was 42.