It doesn't get more northern than the hamlet of Grise Fiord in Nunavut, where 135 people embrace one of the coldest climates in the world.

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Senior staffer quits over "highly concerning" lack of security practices.

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You can now donate to support Signal, the secure messaging service, directly.

A tragedy at home led one intrepid historian to find and catalog precious correspondence for future generations to study

"One could even argue that the King James translation’s enduring power lies precisely in its unique union of . . . scholarship and style. . . ."

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The philosophy, ideals, and behaviors that guide everything from our product strategy to our own processes for hiring software engineers.

Media Lab’s Caleb Harper claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a refugee camp in Jordan, but an investigation by IEEE Spectrum reveals that it never happened

Linley Fall Processor Conference Presentation Details New SiFive IP For Automotive and IoT Edge Markets

The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks. The “modernizing” effort was quietly completed in June.

SuperGLUE is a new benchmark styled after original GLUE benchmark with a set of more difficult language understanding tasks, improved resources, and a new public leaderboard.

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

Cryptofuzz Cryptofuzz is a project that fuzzes cryptographic libraries and compares their output in order to find implementation discrepancies. It’s quite effective and has already found a lo…

Until a few thousand years ago, iron was virtually unknown. Now, high-quality steel is everywhere around us

Some weeks ago I got involved in a discussion on Twitter about, which books to recommend on the history of calculus. Somebody chimed in that Steven Strogatz’s new book would tell you all that you n…