Last month, when 20,000 Google employees walked out of work, their first demand was an end to a practice that prevents workers from taking their employer to court over issues like sexual harassment. That practice, called forced arbitration, requires ...

The decade-long road to recovering cash has been a striking success.

Elon Musk said on Thursday that an underground tunnel developed by his privately held The Boring Company will open on Dec. 18 — an eight-day delay from the initial date.

The Bitcoin mainnet now has over 12,000 lightning channels, 1,800 nodes, and a total capacity of 450 bitcoins. What this means is that node and channel operators have committed in total 450 bitcoins to the Lightning Network. This is a more than 100x ...

Fresh gossip from the GPU grapevine contends that AMD is preparing to launch Radeon RX 3080, RX 3070 and RX 3060 graphics cards to compete with Nvidia’s new Turing models – and potentially in a big way on price, if this leak is anything to go by. Thi ...

I learned English—and Western culture—watching American movies in smoky minibuses.

The mobile library bringing books to children in some of Jakarta's poorest neighbourhoods.

Today, Apple published a long and informative blog post by its audio software engineering and speech teams about how they use machine learning to make Siri responsive on the HomePod, and it reveals a lot about why Apple has made machine learning such ...

Cave in Wells Gray Provincial Park described as “about as big as they come in Canada” 

It's pretty obvious that air conditioning is a necessary technology. Living in stifling heat isn't just uncomfortable, it's dangerous, which makes the fact that air conditioning is bad for our environment a difficult pill to swallow. A ...

The fact that "In God We Trust" is on our money has nothing to do with the faux "Christian nation" narrative. It's all political.

General Motors on Monday announced a major restructuring of its global business, saying it will shut production at five facilities in North America and slash its staff. GM will reduce its salaried workforce by 15%, including a quarter of the company& ...

The beta for the online portion of “Red Dead Redemption 2” goes live in waves this week with those who purchased the Ultimate version of the game gaining access Tuesday, anyone who played on Nov. 26 gains access on Wednesday, anyone who played betwee ...

Opening up to past trauma is difficult but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable, says Gabor Maté

Review finds growing number of children and young people in England struggling with problems.

“My character currently is unkillable”, begins Reddit user “Brogadyn”, “and I mean… really unkillable. She can even eat a nuke blast to the face and be fine. There is literally zero ways that she can die even if I wanted her to (which I very much do ...

As the Leonid meteor shower was lighting up skies with bright fireballs over the past week, some bigger space rocks were also zipping over us. No fewer than six asteroids have flown closer to Earth than the distance to the moon, including the second ...

Bacteria that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) and potentially turns itself into a food source for other sea creatures has been discovered in one of the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists were studying the ecosystems in the Clarion-Clipperton ...