“Nuclear has a waste storage problem that remains largely unaddressed .” Not so. The first, and easiest way to address it is to reprocess spent fuel as France does. The next is to use modern reactor designs that actually clean up old fuel from light water…

The beaver may be a national symbol in Canada, but in the U.K. it's at the epicentre of a gnawing debate that’s pitted farmers against ecologists. After being hunted out of existence 500 years ago, beavers are back and their toothy presence is causing problems.

So we’re supposed to be writing a game, right? But in order to make progress, we have to fix a bug. And in order to fix the bug, we have to write a test. And in order to write a test, we have to write a test framework. And in order to write a test framework…

America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.

The 100 prisoners problem is a mathematical problem in probability theory and combinatorics. In this problem, 100 numbered prisoners must find their own numbers in one of 100 drawers in order to survive. The rules state that each prisoner may open only 50…

America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.

Several TV channels including Channel 5, Film 4 and More 4, lost output

They’re mobilizing to stop a needed crackdown that’s barely begun.

They’re mobilizing to stop a needed crackdown that’s barely begun.

Look what you found! Aren't you clever!

A knot of problems with Amazon’s system for handling paid and unpaid leaves has led to devastating consequences for workers.

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Mark Zuckerberg is not handsome. He has a creepy face.

Lev Reyzin says that working too long on a problem might be unproductive: I, personally, have diminishing (or negative?) returns to my creative work as I explicitly work on a problem past some amount of time. I often have insights coming to me out of nowhere…

A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach.

We've all got to the edge of the wifi coverage, but the idea of coverage produces a network problem, the Hidden Node Problem. Dr Steve Bagley explains.

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It’s the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers — Cory Doctorow ACM Turing Award source Robert Tarjan is well known to most—a Turing award …

Facebook is trying to draw a line between its social media and its "metaverse" business — but with Mark Zuckerberg in charge that could be difficult.