Widespread use of metal caused estimated 2- to 3-point drop in IQ for nearly 180 years of Pax Romana

At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a device it's calling a 'personal AI supercomputer.'

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I wrote a (list of) regular expressions that will play a (not very good) chess game by running a 2-ply minimax search.

After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97% of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen price-fixing.

The dialogue-free, Latvia-Belgium-France co-production beat out billion-dollar box office competition for the Golden Globes' top animation prize.

It’s the size of a desktop.

Gameto Announces World’s First Live Birth Using Fertilo Procedure that Matures Eggs Outside the Body

This article is my attempt to enumerate all the possible moats you can count on that will still be relevant in the age of AI

USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of…

Just say no to LM741 and LM324 / LM358.

The social media mogul said Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram will shift to a community notes model and "work with President Trump" to push back on governments going after U.S. companies.

A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.

We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.