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Bitcoin's creator owns five percent of the entire Bitcoin supply, meaning that he has a larger percent of Bitcoin than the U.S. has of gold.

A new Pentagon report is scathing in its conclusions about the 20-year war.

We looked at the new data from the U.S. Census Bureau to rank the Blackest and whitest places in America.

The websites of today are the historical evidence of tomorrow—but only if they are archived.

A genetic study of British Columbia grizzly bears finds a weird link to local human languages.

As we watch wretched Afghanis clinging to the wings of departing US airplanes, the Taliban, one of the cruelest regimes on earth, has taken ...

The Technological Singularity could lead to the first "immortals" in human history.

US Wind will turn a former steel mill at Sparrows Point, in Baltimore, Maryland, into a manufacturer of wind turbine parts.

Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.

The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system

Vaccine misinformation hotbed OpenVAERS is one of the leading sources of bad info about COVID vaccines on the internet, and an investigation finds that it’s run by some woman in the Oakland-surrounded suburb of Piedmont with too much time on her hands.

The Web is a haystack. This isn’t what Tim Berners-Lee had in mind when he invented the Web. Nor is it what Jerry Yang and David Filo had in mind when they invented Jerry and David’s Gu…

Philip Agre earned his PhD in 1989 in computer science, but his greatest impact came when he left the technical side of the field and helped create the field of social informatics, or the study of how technology and humanity interact. Then he disappeared, leaving behind a legacy of work that was eerily prescient in predicting how technology would impact society.

Solar panels mounted on eNow refrigeration trucks will cut emissions while keeping food cold in 1,000 XL Fleet tractor-trailers in the US.

Google Play services need constant location info

Cropland losses will have consequences especially for Asia and Africa, which will experience growing food insecurity as cities expand

A new system more accurately monitors and plans for drought across the 2,500-square-mile Hopi Reservation, a vast desert without long-term weather stations.

Whenever people ask me which company I think will win the self driving car race, I say Tesla. And the reason is that they have more data. And when it comes to training machines to do what humans do, more data is better than more software engineers. Bloomberg has a good post on that today.

We will all remember 2016’s political theater for many reasons: for its exhausting, divisive election, for its memes both dank and dark, for the fact...

Malcolm Gladwell has an article in this month’s New Yorker that dismisses Edward Snowden’s claims to legitimacy and legal protection, while elevating Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Pa…

Mining companies are rolling out autonomous trucks, drills, and trains, which will boost efficiency but also reduce the need for human employees.

Where remote workers can anonymously share their experience, advice, and find their dream job

Here’s one for you: if I offered to invest $10,000 for every pound you gained, what would that make you?

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A 6-year-old girl found a novel way to unlock her sleeping mother's phone.

Abstract. Many indebted consumers carry multiple credit cards with significant balances and do not generate enough income to pay off these balances in full at t

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Excerpted from Pinpoint by Greg Milner.