This is the first part of a multi-part series aimed at demonstrating how to get started in the big data world. The series will include… | Continue reading
Sometimes you hear a book title, and you don’t even have to read the book. The title alone changes your thinking. | Continue reading
The 12 Rules for Life author didn’t live down to all the fearmongering about him, writes Paul Benedetti | Continue reading
Kim Stanley Robinson argues that blanket opposition to intervening in the climate is wrongheaded. | Continue reading
On Friday morning, homeless web developer David Casarez woke from his park bench in Mountain View, Calif., put on a nice shirt and tie, and carried his hand-written cardboard sign to a nearby highway median. “HOMELESS,” the sign read. “HUNGRY 4 SUCCESS. TAKE A RESUME.” It turned … | Continue reading
The International Space Station is officially home to the coolest experiment in space: NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory is now producing clouds of ultracold atoms. | Continue reading
Microsoft president Brad Smith says facial-recognition technology needs to be regulated. On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union provided a good reason for us to think carefully about the evolution of facial-recognition technology. In a study, the group used Amazon’s (A … | Continue reading
Current digital environment is very app-focused: roughly 90% of mobile time is spent using apps. Regardless, with 3.8 million apps on Google Play and 2 million in App Store, we wondered what applications people may still miss, and we are ready to share the best app ideas with you … | Continue reading
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an awesome new tech for video/audio chat directly inside your browser or mobile app. The best of its kind. But like many new technologies, it has some nasty pitfalls even for the experienced developers. | Continue reading
ack in 2012, Iceland made a serious attempt to draw up a new constitution by efforts of all its people. And, most notably, there have been a few other attempts at that in other countries after that. So, what was Iceland going to do? Is constitution something that has to be writte … | Continue reading
U of T Engineering researchers examine a simple and effective way to minimize food contamination at industrial production plants | Continue reading
In the context of today’s trade war, an engineered competitive devaluation of the yuan would not be in China’s best interest. | Continue reading
People in the world’s Blue Zones— the places around the world with the highest life expectancy — don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge… | Continue reading
David Zweig and Zoe Ge say Chinese students are returning home in droves after studying overseas, but whether they earn more and are satisfied with their lives depends on choice of major, work experience abroad and their reasons for returning | Continue reading
Learn all about CSS colors like rgb() and hsl() with interactive CSS widgets. | Continue reading
- We'd sell out, if only we knew how. —Jerry Garcia As you may know, I've been trying to write a thriller, which is specific kind of genre novel with its own forms and rules. Thrillers are much more popular,... | Continue reading
In the wake of gman's death, I have been thinking about how unexpected kindnesses and generosity have improved my life and the lives of many others. I find such stories inspirational and... | Continue reading
Right from the beginning, Java has contained internal APIs, not intended for general development use. Since JDK 1.4, sun.misc.Unsafe is probably the most notorious. What would Java be like, and how successful would it have been without this? | Continue reading
"Let me put it this way: we were banned from a Nagoya hotel" | Continue reading
The short answer: The rent is too darn high. | Continue reading
Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading
Malaysia, Vietnam and lower-cost economies in Southeast Asia are the new home for many Hong Kong manufacturers | Continue reading
We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI. | Continue reading
Hackers from around the world cracked into voting machines at Defcon convention in Las Vegas this weekend | Continue reading
It sometimes amazed people that we here at the Scalzi Compound still have a landline. We do, basically because I receive (terrible, horrible, low-speed) internet service through my phone company, and it's basically cheaper to bundle it with a landline than to get it by itself. An … | Continue reading
The state is just the latest to try and hold broadband monopolies accountable in the wake of federal apathy. | Continue reading
Volcanoes: A Beginner's Guide by Rosaly Lopes | Continue reading
Located on the first floor of a 1960s apartment building in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Toorak, the Woori apartment has canopy views and ... | Continue reading
There should be a prominent place for theory within biology papers, both as Results in papers that combine experiment and theory, and as Results in theory papers. | Continue reading
We need to start caring about the census, because things are looking bad. | Continue reading
Fake news has torn our world apart, so now fake news must mend it. | Continue reading
Fake news has torn our world apart, so now fake news must mend it. | Continue reading
Euronews' Bryan Carter has been to Antwerp in Belgium to see how the port has been affected by the US' decision to impose a 25% tariff on steel imports. | Continue reading
Whether we realise it or not, all decisions are bets. | Continue reading
Lambda is a Disruptor in Blockchain-Based Storage Solution, bringing to the market, a fast, safe, and scalable blockchain infrastructure, which provides decentralized applications (DAPPs) data storage capabilities with unlimited scalability. The CEO HE Xiao Yang will be discussin … | Continue reading