Data, Science & Tech

Genetic epidemiologists have found evidence suggesting that the omicron variant did not emerge from the delta variant.

A new search engine needs an index of the web. And many sites don’t welcome any web crawler that isn’t Google or Bing.

Ichthyosaur about 10 metres long and dating back 180m years discovered at Rutland Water

For the fifth year in a row, we’ve doubled the number of our monthly active users, going from 24 million MAU on December 31st, 2020, to over 50 million by the end of 2021.

Linoleum, which is an innovative technology created by Frederick Walton in 1855, appears to be the victim of hipsterism. Learn how its popularity may have led to its demise.

But it's not inflation, it's limited bandwidth.

Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...

Ads are showing up in places they shouldn’t, signaling not so much a death knell for the effort, but more of a warning that if the trend continues, early trust between podcast networks and tech companies could fall apart.

Learn how USB keyboards translate keystrokes to binary digits and the latency in transmitting this data compared PS2.

The Defense Innovation Unit released its initial "Responsible AI Guidelines" document Nov. 15, with intent to operationalize the Defense Department's ethical principles of artificial intelligence into

SOS is up an eye-popping 960% since its surprise Christmas Eve airdrop.

Founded in 2017 by an ex-wireless engineer from Qualcomm, Solana is a layer one blockchain like Bitcoin and Ethereum that has been built to process transactions as quickly and cheaply as possible. Where Bitcoin can process about ten transactions per second and Ethereum around 30, Solana can handle over 60,000 transactions per second, and it can do so at a fraction of the cost. Unsurprisingly, Solana’s network has attracted huge interest from developers, users, and investors alike over the last year.

The Bonneville Salt Flats are perfect for speed. Every year, cars and motorcycles break land speed records on the flat expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats. It’s been a tradition for more than a century, and racers have built a thriving community around the salt races. But how did these salt flats form, and why are they disappearing now?

Learn more about the evolution and culture of orcas.

Learn about the sophisticated algorithms that produce the jpeg images that are everywhere on the internet.

Discover the incredible engineering behind 3-way and 4-way light switches.

The Log4J and JNDI exploit can collect private data and secret infiltrate enterprise systems. Learn the details in this 27 minute explanation and demonstration.

TikTok has been crowned the most popular domain of 2021 by web security and performance company Cloudflare.

An anthropologist asks what algorithms and astrology have in common in a digital era of predictive technologies. By putting faith in these predictions, whether they're based on AI, the supernatural, physical, or divination, we may be foreclosing other possibilities we haven’t yet imagined.

Americans widely distrust algorithms used across different industries. Both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree that there should be public or government oversight of the use of algorithms (71%).

12/22/21 was the 22nd and final palindromic date of the year. The next year with 22 palindromic dates won't occur until 2111. The date 1/20/21 was the first Inauguration Day with a palindromic date in American history. The next one will come in 1,000 years, on 1/20/3021.

A survey by the Washington Post-Schar School found that 72% of internet users do not trust Facebook to responsibly handle their personal information and data on their internet activity and 64% said that the government should do more to rein in big tech companies.

Learn about the history of analogue and digital computing, from how this technology helped us predict the tides and navigate the ocean to planning strategic attacks during WWII.

After 50+ years, a trio of codebreakers solves the puzzle and earns a nod from the FBI.

Patents where the majority of the inventors are men are more likely to patent male-focused patents and patents where the majority of the inventors are women are more likely to patent female-focused patents.

Data is from U.S. Army Corp of Engineers National Inventory of Dams. The visualization was built in Esri ArcGIS Pro and Adobe Photoshop.

The Wright brothers were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

OpenAI has released new fine-tuning features for its GPT-3 natural language model. The new tools enable developers to customize GPT-3,..

Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations