Nuclear power could be a big help in the fight against climate change. Learn why more environmentalists are starting to endorse it.

You only need to learn a little bit of queueing theory before you start getting that ecstatic “everything is connected!” high that good math always evokes. So many damn things follow th…

Steve Wozniak says Steve Jobs compensated for his engineering skills by turning himself into a skilled communicator and marketer, all to help Apple succeed.

Following a similar move in the UK this January, Google is acquiring the building its Warsaw, Poland office is located at. The company...

Some weird legacy behavior in JavaScript

WebGPU is an upcoming Web API that gives you low-level, general-purpose access GPUs.

A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

Given that indexing is so important as your data set increases in size, can someone explain how indexing works at a database-agnostic level?

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Learn why top-down standardization efforts can often lead to failure and how understanding specific problems through collaboration and embedding wi...

A technological whodunit—featuring Parliament, computer scientists, and a tipsy plane flight

I'm leaving Rails core and I'm not interested in being in the alumni.

Researchers proved decades ago that venting won’t make you feel better.

Metaculus is an online forecasting platform and aggregation engine working to improve human reasoning and coordination on topics of global importance.

In neural systems, information processing can be facilitated by adding an optimal level of white noise. Although this phenomenon, the so-called stochastic resonance, has traditionally been linked with perception, recent evidence indicates that white noise…