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Amazon is a bundle - it’s hundreds of separate businesses, all running on the same common internal platforms. The big, established ones are highly profitable, but Amazon chooses to reinvest those profits into new businesses, so that reported net income for the company overall looks low. This mask

The authors of a "colossal" ransomware attack demand the sum in Bitcoin in return for a key to unlock all files.

Dietary changes can help bolster your natural immunity against viruses.

Consider the example you’re setting.

There is an ongoing revolution in the transmission of tacit knowledge driven by a surprising force: YouTube

Russ Roberts Interviews Thomas Sowell on subjects from his book Economic Facts and Fallacies.Contents0:00 Russ and Sowell discuss income distribution and ask...

Three years ago, a small group of academics at a German university launched an unprecedented collaboration with the military – using novels to try to pinpoint the world’s next conflicts. Are they on to something?

The Babylonians knew an amazingly good approximation to the square root of 2 back around 1700 BC. But did they know it was just an approximation?

Two explosions, within a gap of five minutes, rocked the technical area of Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday. It is suspected to be the first drone attack on any defence establishment in India.

A major new investment in renewables by the country’s largest power company may signal the beginning of the end for thermal energy.

With several sections extracted from the painting, the work can now be seen for first time in its entirety in centuries.

Soon, most people will live by one name and earn by another

Broadly speaking, we can divide the core technologies of neurotech into neuroimaging and neurostimulation, that is, technologies that read and technologies that write to the brain. There aren’t good reference resources online of what’s promising about these techniques, so in taking notes about them, I’ve decided to break them down in an accessible manner and give a rough sketch about the state of the art of each. I’ll give a quick summary about each technology, as well as list a few companies and labs doing work in each.

Things Have Been Looking the Same

Moray eels can hunt on land, and footage from a recent study highlights how they accomplish this feat with a sneaky second set of jaws.

June 19th, 2021: Greetings from Hualien. We finally discovered an outdoor beach to wander around that wasn’t shut down due to covid. Here’s a view from the beach and also one of our first nights with a clear view of the mountains If you’re stumbling on this from the web feel free to join this infinite game.

Meet developer icon David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, who explains the need to build lasting products and why he doesn't always listen to customers.

This week I was supposed to start working on launching my summer online course. But I was dreading it. I could logically reason myself into taking action or not taking action. I meditated on it and asked, "What does my heart want." The answer was clear. I don't want to teach this course this summer.

A better understanding of the emotions of consumers would help control inflation risks

A life of leisure was once the aspiration of the upper class. But now, bragging about busyness is how people indicate their status. Could a pandemic change the way busyness is glorified?

"It's a high-risk, high-payoff situation."

"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."

What the pandemic revealed about scientific publishing

The market for furry friends has been hounded by a supply-demand shock that’s now resulting in a kind of bull(dog)whip effect.

We built a concept corpus and recommendation network for science fiction.

Study reveals family histories of black-haired Vikings who set forth—and died—far from home

It is widely known that the vast majority of all works of ancient drama have been lost forever. We have record of literally hundreds of playwrights who wrote plays in the Greek language in ancient times, but only five of these playwrights have any plays that have survived to the present day complete or nearly … Continue reading "How Have Works of Greek Drama Survived?"

"Not later than four months after entry of this Final Judgment, Microsoft shall submit to the Court and the Plaintiffs a proposed plan of divestiture." —Final Judgement June 7, 2000

Your 20s don’t have to be the “best time of your life.”