Quora, a 10-year-old question-and-answer startup based in Mountain View, is laying off staff in its Bay Area and New York offices, the company’s CEO announced on the site today. Like other startup leaders being pushed by investors to focus more heavily on…

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CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

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A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript - kasper/phoenix

It’s a shame so few of us are taught the basics of how to interact constructively with each other. If you never were, we’re here to help.

JetBrains has added further destinations to the IntelliJ-based roadmap it sketched out last year, promising more localization, machine learning and Git integration amongst a range of other goodies for the Java IDE. In December, the Prague-based firm’s CTO…

The long read: My life seemed to be getting busier, faster: I felt constantly short of time – so I stepped outside it for a day and a night and did nothing

As a reviewer you’re responsible for improving safety, enforcing broadly agreed upon standards and should use the opportunity to teach and learn from your colleagues.

Earlier this year, I slowly stumbled across something that I don’t think is well-known in comparative public transportation: European cities have much higher public transport ridership than s…

As a writer on physics, I’m always seeking new metaphors for understanding Einstein’s general theory of relativity, and while…

If you were to found a company that makes and sells beer today, you would probably start a craft brewery. You’d start a small operation, find the people who enjoy your product and slowly expa…