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It's time to end the speed limit in US airspace

The embarrassing investor meltdown surrounding Silicon Valley Bank should drive us to consider new models.

Can you trust your colleagues to write good code? Can you trust yourself?

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For all their unsettling emergent abilities, chatbots are still just next-word predictors. We need to remember this and avoid seeing human attributes where they don't exist, warns Alex Wilkins

But game developers have a better business model than Hollywood

For decades, mathematicians have been inching forward on a problem about which sets contain evenly spaced patterns of three numbers. Last month, two computer scientists blew past all of those results.

In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be found in New Bedford, MA. All this slaughter wasn’t to feed hungry people with whale meat. It was about all the things people could make

Frank Abagnale Jr. — the man whose life inspired the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Catch Me If You Can" — has spent decades lying about the lies that made him famous, from impersonating pilots to...

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I'm in a big tech company working along side a science team for a product you've all probably used. We have these year long initiatives to...

L0pht hackers testified before Congress and then went on to shape today’s cybersecurity industry. This is the story of how it started.

Why fly all the way across the ocean when you can chill out by the pool?

This article answeres the questions of how to start a rocket engine and takes you on a deep dive into spark plugs, torch ignitors and more.

India is making a break from the past to power its defence and attack capabilities completely indigenously.

More than 500 years before Oxford University was founded, India's Nalanda University was home to nine million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world.

the history of 3dfx Interactive

"An analyst on every desk and in every home."

Have you ever wondered how pedestrians 'know' to fall into lanes when they are moving through a crowd, without the matter being discussed or even given conscious thought?

On efficiency, hiring, incentivisation and how we confuse communication latency with analysis speed

Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.

Your knight for my pawn, and you have to take it. Things are about to get worse, sunshine. This is my game now. You have been out-calculated. I don't want the piece, I want your soul. My attack hurts like a school disco and I'm going to sac sac mate until... wait. What? 10 seconds left. But, I'm win

Scientific papers are dense, jargon-filled, and painful to read. It wasn’t always this way – and it doesn’t have to be.

The integration of technique and intuition is a delicate process… but vital in the pursuit of excellence

Recovering the Lost Tool of Learning

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