The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped making a decision on the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media companies to curb content that the platforms deem objectionable.

Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier, the last in the Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.

Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?

People expect that our communication instincts are the same, and this can cause a lifetime of missed connections, but there are at least two.

0Patch will offer its own Windows 10 security patches, free and paid, to keep W10 usable for the rest of the decade to come.

In the age of antitrust, why has Koala Kare, Big Baby Change Station, flown under the radar?

RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?

Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies.

Inspired by Thomas Edison’s experiments, scientists in Paris have shown that sleep onset is when our brains are at their most creative.

WARNING: the following contains a whole lot of pedantry about proving theorems at a level of detail such that you could likely convince a co...

...by adding just a few lines to your <code>build.zig</code>

HATETRIS is the world's hardest version of Tetris; it's Tetris that hates you. In this post, we chronicle our eleven-month journey to get the world record, and some of our wrong turns along the way.

In a human ‘challenge trial’ we deliberately infected volunteers with COVID to get the answer.

Conway’s Game of Life is one of the most popular and iconic cellular automata.  It is so famous that googling it loads up a working simulation right in your browser!  The rules for the Game o…