An offshore drilling platform in the sea of knowledge.

Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurture debate.

By Colonel Walter “Frank” Coppersmith With the arrival of autonomous weapons systems (AWS)[1] on the

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

I review here four important, but perhaps not immediately apparent, themes from my Capitalism, Alone.   The book contains many other, mo...

Flipping your Disk From Compute! Issue 10 / March 1981

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said.

The twin primes conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for more than a century. Now there's a solution for one version of it.

There's a wave of companies trying to find new ways to make software for work, building bundles of workflows and networks that capture the spreadsheets, emails and phone calls of some industry or profession and turn them into structure, automation and time.

People in the tech community know me as a high-tech publicist, a former board member of BMUG — the largest Macintosh computer user group…

DigitalOcean's Status Page - Block Storage Issues Across All Regions.

Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

Half a century after their debut, Japan's pager services will finally cease on Tuesday, bringing an end to what was once considered a must-have communicati

Voom, the helicopter service with ridesharing and one-hour advance booking that Airbus developed and launch first in Latin America, is getting its U.S. debut starting in San Francisco. The service will be available for travel between five Bay Area airports…