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…

Tamgu (탐구), a FIL programming language: Functional, Imperative, Logical all in one for annotation and data augmentation - naver/tamgu

It's probably not a huge surprise to some of you that I'm a big cleantech booster. One such facet of cleantech that I suspect will soon be a big deal is el...

At about this time next year, we’ll have a pretty good idea of what the next generation of video games will look like. New consoles will likely be shown off, bold new streaming initiatives will begin to launch, and we’ll see all the wonderful kinds of games…

Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make the entry point to its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a low-priced mobile tier in the country that costs Rs 199 ($2.8) per month in a bid to take on Disney, Amazon and dozens…