Former Wall Street banker Randall Atkins got a lot more than he bargained for when he paid $2 million for a Wyoming coal mine without even seeing it in 2012. At the time, he planned to make money selling coal from his mine to other plants. That was before…

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Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team,  Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business –…

For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?

It was the evening of 16 December 1773. At Boston’s Old South Meeting House, more than 5,000 people awaited word from the governor of Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Hutchinson. Had the governor finally given in to their demand to send back to England the three…

Big Sur ended up with a total of 50 GB of updates on Apple silicon Macs. While Ventura did much better, its smallest update was still just under 2 GB. Now Sonoma is doing much better.

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It remains to be determined how different inputs for memory-encoding, such as the use of paper notebooks or mobile devices, affect retrieval processes. We co...

The UE-1 is one of my favorite projects to date, but there’s no denying that it’s weird as far as computers go. So weird in fact, nearly everyone who got hands on with it at the last event I had it at was completely lost as to what it was or how it worked.…

Music streaming service axes 17% of workforce in latest round of redundancies at big tech companies

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Japanese parents and educators say the children are learning to respect their surroundings.

George Wald scientific talk: The Origin of Death

Explore the fascinating history of the PDF, from its inception by Adobe to its evolution as a digital document standard. This article delves into the PDF's journey, its role in shaping digital documentation, and its impact on technology and business. Discover…

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The music-streaming company says it is making people redundant to "rightsize" the firm.