A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.

The PingCAP company, makers of the TiDB NewSQL database and the TiKV key-value store, have kindly made publicly available, as well as open-sourced, a set of training courses that they call the "PingCAP Talent Plan". These courses train programmers in writing…

On the weekend of Anime Expo, an artist promised the humanly impossible -- custom art commissions with a five-minute turnaround time. The not-so-hidden catch? The artist wasn't a human at all, but an AI exposed to millions of anime images.

Just yesterday, I created a Vimeo account and uploaded my first two videos. This effort was in support of my most recent blog post, Early Retirement Expert. Today, a day later, I thought I’d go in and include links to that blog post in the description for…

My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having—and losing—a superpower.

Are we happier when we spend more time with others? Studies suggest social relations are a key factor in happiness & life satisfaction. We take a closer look at the evidence for how much social connections matter for happiness.

Scientists say the loss of a single gene two to three million years ago in our ancestors may have resulted in a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease in all humans as a species, while also setting up a further risk for red meat-eating humans.

MIT engineers have developed a novel microfluidics biosensor that detects diagnostic levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a protein biomarker for sepsis, in 25 minutes using less than a finger prick of blood.

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows.

They’re not burritos.

New satellite photos show powerful changes on Earth's surface from Ridgecrest earthquakes.

How writing patterns, online activities, and other unintentional identifiers can be used in cyber offense and defense.

In late 2017, with prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin surging, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong faced a tough choice: Would his company, the leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, become more like a traditional financial services company or would it lean…

About the "security issue" on #VLC : VLC is not vulnerable. tl;dr: the issue is in a 3rd party library, called libebml, which was fixed more than 16 months ago. VLC since version 3.0.3 has the correct version shipped, and @MITREcorp did not even check their…

Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.

For a number of years now, a group of professional hackers has been busy spying on businesses all over the world: Winnti. Believed to be controlled by China. For the first time, research by German public broadcasters BR and NDR are shedding light on how the…