Android is dominant today, but how did it get there? (Hint: Verizon and the Motorola Droid.)

If you're searching for the holy grail of bug-free code, this article can help! Exploring monads in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, and Scala, this monad tutorial by Alexey Karasev takes you from category theory to implementing three monads and a sample…

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The story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo — and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be.

Both companies violated several consumer codes.

Italian investigation found software updates ‘significantly reduced performance’, hastening new purchases

Starting in the US, with a global rollout to more than 100 countries after

Executives say they want to enhance conversations on the platform

The Supreme Court ruling that rescued the icon also opened the door for other, more controversial preservation cases.

Hour-long procedure that stabilises blood sugar levels of sufferers of type 2 diabetes is still effective one year on, study shows

SIMD is a powerful performance technique, and is especially valuable in signal and image processing applications. I will be using it very extensively in my synthesizer, and also it’s increasingly used in xi-editor to optimize string comparisons and similar…

The field of soft robotics sure seems a lot less mature than your standard servo motor and metal framed robot arms. Maybe that’s because building a robot to flex is harder, and maybe it&#8217…

Artificial intelligence will have implications for policymakers in education, welfare and geopolitics

A new book says growth will sputter without more talented foreigners, but the system for admitting them must be reformed. 

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MIT neuroscientists have discovered that human dendrites have very different electrical properties from those of other species. These differences may contribute to the enhanced computing power of the human brain.

  Desperate times for YouTube. CEO Susan Wojcicki is currently organizing a Childrens Crusade, against EU MEPs by urging YouTubers (mostly US teens) to “take action” to protect her…