Though the counts aren't finished and the legal challenges could drag on for weeks, Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election is looking increasingly likely. If he does triumph, it will also be a win for action on...
Cases rise as election results come in, vaccines and treatments advance, and the reach of screening and tracing technology grows. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this weekly roundup and other coronavirus news? Sign up here!HeadlinesCases soar...
The new study has not yet been peer-reviewed, but it will be soon, and it is due to be published in the Astronomical Journal.“This appears to be a very careful study and deals with really thorny issues about extrapolating...
Plans are afoot to outfit Apple’s Swift language with a “first-class” concurrency model. The goal is to make concurrent programming in Swift efficient, safe, and convenient, according to the roadmap published at forums.swift.org.Swift concurrency is intended to prevent data races...
Gartner states through 2020, public IaaS workloads will suffer at least 60 percent fewer security incidents than workloads in traditional data centers. When I pointed this out several years ago, many scoffed at the claim.Both the hyperscalers and third-party security providers...
Back in 2016, I could count on one hand the kinds of interventions that technology companies were willing to use to rid their platforms of misinformation, hate speech, and harassment. Over the years, crude mechanisms like blocking content and...
Donald Trump visited the New York Times after winning the US presidential election in November 2016. | Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images People spent the summer freaking out and subscribing to the paper of record. We...
Pro-Trump protesters in Pennsylvania are calling for the state to stop counting votes based on unproven assertions of fraud. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stop the Steal gained more than 350,000 members on Facebook in less than a...
New technology to remove PFAS from the environment will be trialled in Jervis Bay next year and, if successful, could be rolled out at other contaminated sites across Australia.Key points:New technology that could remove PFAS from the environment will...
More than seven years have passed since Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library and charged with running the sprawling, dark web drug bazaar known as the Silk Road. But when the...
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