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The severity of the global chip shortage has gone up a notch over the last few weeks and it's now looking as though millions of people will be impacted.

TOKYO -- A collection of private home movies shot by people in Japan during the Showa era (1926-1989) has been unveiled on a website launched in the c

About half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their prospects for future employment.

Hiring was much weaker than expected in April. Wall Street thinks it’s a blip, but there could be much deeper rethinking going on of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis.

Covid-19 is transforming all types of communities, from big cities to suburbs to rural areas.

Use #inject in Ruby to greatly reduce code size.

"Monopolies tend to have a lot of control, not just over consumers, but also over politics."

Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional methods. Using a bit of machine learning magic, astrophysicists can now simulate vast, complex universes in a thousandth of

Two college students are organizing an all-female hacker house in San Francisco. "The goal is for everyone to come into the house with their own project/company that they want to dedicate time to building," explained co-founder Tanisha Bassan, "and do it in an environment where everyone else is also doing similar things." Bassan explained that…

How do you study for the test of life? Here are ten proven strategies to deeply learn even the hardest subjects.

The process could yield 50 billion transistors on fingernail-sized chips that are 75 percent more efficient or 45 percent faster than today’s designs.

​The author of 'How We Read Now' explains.

Will COVID-19 finally lead us to abandon the open office?

You walk up to a door and put the wrong key in the lock. It doesn’t turn. Do you then keep trying that same key over and over again? Of course not. Yet we do something very similar when we’re seeking to gain access to important insights in life. We ask a question, find the […]

It might be the best way to save someone in distress. But it doesn’t scale. You can only offer this sort of lifesaving intervention to one person at a time. Often, we get stuck because we try…

I’ve been designing & developing for hire since I was 14. But I almost never write about my past. It’s old hat to me. I’m an always-moving-forward ki

Ship more stuff. Make more money. Help more people.

The best entrepreneurs — they let fires burn. Knowing which problems NOT to solve is just as critical as knowing how to solve them.

Degree matters if you have nothing better to show, consulting and BigTech backgrounds are negative, too many seniors can't code.

My second impression of Rust, after building a real-life use case with it and my thoughts on why it is a great general-purpose language for the future.

The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 429 programs, consisting of 13 benchmark reimplemented across 33 programming langu...

The attack highlights how ransomware and other cyberattacks are increasingly a threat to real-world infrastructure.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund is taking over tech, one company at a time. This is the story of what happens if the disruptors are disrupted