A banned chemical used to make household insulation is implicated in damage to the ozone layer.

Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them.

After Commodore Founder Jack Tramiel was forced out by his board, he decided, after a brief hiatus, to get revenge. Tramiel knew that a 16-bit computer was next on the horizon for Commodore, and he wanted [more...]

The single most important quality in a piece of software is simplicity. It’s more important than doing the task you set out to achieve. It’s more important than performance. The reason is straightforward: if your solution is not simple, it will not be correct…

Logic Theorist is a computer program written in 1955 and 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon and Cliff Shaw. It was the first program deliberately engineered to mimic the problem solving skills of a human being and is called "the first artificial intelligence…

A silicon-nanowire thermoelectric generator has been developed by a team of researchers from Waseda University, Osaka University, and Shizuoka University.

Online bank Monzo reveals the most common cons, from stolen cards to student ‘mules’

Staff at some of Nissan Motor’s Japan plants falsified auto-emissions and fuel-economy data, the company said, in what is the latest data-faking incident among Japanese manufacturers.

A react native clothes shopping app UI. Contribute to ATF19/react-native-shop-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

The time is ripe for practical transfer learning to make inroads into NLP.

Trends in the developer community move quickly. As a developer-focused company, it's vital for us to keep up with the technologies and tools that developers and their teams are interested in so we can help them achieve their goals.

Early results from birth-cohort have public-health implications, as other groups use the data to investigate the microbiome and mental health.

We introduce Glow, a reversible generative model which uses invertible 1x1
convolutions. It extends previous [https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8516] work
[https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08803] on reversible generative models and
simplifies the architecture. Our model…

About 56 percent of crypto startups that raise money through token sales die within four months of their initial coin offerings.

Electric scooter rental company Lime is teaming up with Uber to bring an unconventional mode of transportation to the world.

Introduction This article gives an overview of LocustDB [1], a new and extremely fast open-source analytics database built in Rust. Part 1 gives some background on analytical query systems and my g…

by Jean-Louis Gassée