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East Asian businesses often go out drinking.

🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for more than 6M travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by th...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is developing new and rapid methods to rapidly screen and authenticate the origin of foods like extra virgin olive oil.

The world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. Taste the new open processor architecture now. Will you take the risk?

Mike Bostock, Announcing: Observable Framework: Today we’re launching Observable 2.0 with a bold new vision: an open-source static site generator for building fast, beautiful data apps, dashboards, and reports. Our …

Atomic physicist Niels Bohr is famously quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” Yet despite years of getting things wrong, magazines love think pieces on where we’ll be in several decades, even centuries in time.

Navy secretary visits Hyundai, Hanwha and Mitsubishi to invite investment

A new 3D printed ‘metamaterial’ boasts levels of strength for weight not seen in nature or the manufacturing world.

We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

I read a novel where the rules for inheriting witchcraft resembles the real-world gene drive, so I developed a simulation and queried 86 million genealogy profiles to see how witchcraft would spread in real life.

An in-depth look at the process that overhauls every single wheel, motor, brake, axel, wire and door on every car in the New York City system.

For the past 6 months, I’ve been working on GPT Pilot ( to understand how much we can really automate coding with AI, so I wanted to share our learnings so far and how far it’s able to go. When I s…

Introduces the Universal Serial Bus covering the various chapters of the spec and what is required to be read.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”), Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently issued a proposed rule aimed at preventing foreign actors from utilizing U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (“IaaS”) products (i.e., cloud computing services) to…

The agency released a unified "practical" guidance for respiratory viruses.