The criminalization of people who use psychedelics is rooted in myths that are the vestiges of colonialism and the drug war – and, one by one, those myths are crumbling down.

Today’s hi-tech wages threaten Silicon Valley’s bottom line. What better way to drive down coders’ pay than by investing in a new generation of cheap labor?

As Nevada’s second city ( with apologies to Henderson) may find out

We’ve all seen it — the quintessential reduce example taken from ancient tablets passed down from our people, just beneath…

This is the first in a series of posts summarizing the Open Philanthropy review of the evidence on the impacts of incarceration on crime. Read the full report here. About when Chloe Cockburn joined Open Philanthropy to spearhead our grantmaking for criminal…

JavaScript is a language with many capabilities. There is no single concrete way to solve a problem and you have the freedom to approach…

Stewart Butterfield talks about how machine learning can help your work productivity.

Stewart Butterfield talks about how machine learning can help your work productivity.

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Call it Workforce Training 2.0—or, in industry lingo, a new twist on corporate “learning and development.” It’s a growing market that could be worth as much as $171 billion, by our measure, and it’s all about using new, more high-tech methods to deliver training…

The White House has launched a working group to explore reducing government use of Social Security numbers to verify people’s identities following the Equifax Inc. breach, a senior administration official said. The group is scheduled to hold its first meeting…

This article is attempts to empirically show that structured bug reports reduce the bug management effort of developers. It is shown that having a template for bug reports results in fewer comments per bug report and fewer bug reports generated. Additionally…

Researchers have identified a potential reason why lower numbers of COVID cases have appeared amongst smokers compared to non-smokers, even as other reports suggest smoking increases severity of the disease.

Software fixes for the problems are coming later this month.

Nick Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister who is now vice president for global affairs and communications at Facebook, also defended the social media giant's decision to remove some security measures after the 2020 US election.

Parents of elementary school children in Toronto are expressing concern after their children were asked not to speak during lunch in an effort to curb transmission of COVID-19.

A 10-day course of fluvoxamine sharply reduced hospital visits and deaths, raising hopes for an easy at-home treatment for COVID-19.

Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on to others in their household