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Vercel has added an additional $102 million of investment at a valuation greater than $1BN.

Big lobbying from big tech

Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odor molecules. The work yields new insights into one of the most mysterious and versatile senses.

The NEORV32 Processor is a customizable microcontroller-like system on chip (SoC) that is based on the RISC-V NEORV32 CPU. The project is intended as auxiliary processor in larger SoC designs or as…

Malaria kills around 400,000 people every year, with the vast majority of deaths occurring in children aged under five from the world’s most vulnerable societies.

Deno Deploy is a multi-tenant distributed JavaScript VM running in 25 data centers across the world.

The origin and early spread of SARS-CoV-2 remains shrouded in mystery. Here I identify a data set containing SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early in the Wuhan epidemic that has been deleted from the NIH’s Sequence Read Archive. I recover the deleted files from…

Google will shut down a program aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds after participants said it enforced "systemic pay inequities."

Text classification is a very frequent use case for machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). It’s used for things like spam detection in emails, sentiment analysis for social media posts, or intent detection in chat bots. In this series…

Mysterious mega-drone that buzzed police helicopters during a night chase over Tucson described by pursuing chopper pilots.

Buffett’s resignation as Gates Foundation trustee comes as the charitable organization faces a tumultuous time with the divorce of its two founders.

Aquinas tells us that curiosity is a vice .  Before you clutch your pearls, dear village atheist reader, know that Aquinas was not condemni...

Some of my personal thoughts on how we design open source projects

Nature - Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes.