Doug Band worked alongside Bill Clinton every day for nearly two decades, first as a body man and then as one of the primary architects of his lucrative and often-fraught post-presidency. Then came a seismic falling out with accusations of self-dealing and soap-opera-level psychodrama. Now, for the first time since leaving Clinton’s orbit, Band goes on the record about his days in Clintonworld.
"Ted Lasso" and "Emily in Paris" are works of escapism that grapple with the inescapable.
Dying of dysentery was just the beginning.
The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know before taking the plunge.
On Wednesday, The Debrief’s Tim McMillan gave us the most detailed look yet at the Pentagon’s ongoing research of unidentified flying objects, UFOs, or what the government refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena.” Publicly announced earlier this year, the “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task…
Classified briefings and intelligence Reports offer an unprecedented glimpse into The Pentagon’s current investigation of UFOs.
Deep learning algorithms are prone to a previously unknown problem, say a team of computer scientists at Google.
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Oisín Moran | How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet Or the real reason Twitter doesn't want you to have an edit button. I'll try to…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - scientific institution making a lot of research and development for NASA. JPL have been developing software for most of unmanned missions in the field of deep space and other planets exploration. Their portfolio includes such famous missions as Curiosity Mars rover and Vo
At the start of the year, writer and surfer Jamie Brisick visited the world’s premier big-wave surfing contest. This is what he found.
Medical researcher Moshe Rogosnitzky taps existing drugs for new uses
Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists.
Because cheerleading is not governed by the N.C.A.A., its participants can sign lucrative endorsement deals that would lead to punishment for most college athletes, including soon-to-be N.F.L. and N.B.A. millionaires.
Trawling ancient history with neural nets.
<p>by Roberto | Rumor has it that the combina­tion of yogurt and honey is the "food of the gods." I can't vouch for that since I have not had the chance to query the gods about their diets. Yet just the other day, while en­joying ar­ti­sanal Greek-style yogurt top­ped with local raw honey, I closed my eyes and was imme­dia­tely trans­ported...
I remember when I first discovered Line Rider, that Flash game from 2006 with the simple premise of drawing a track for a sledder to ride…
‘Ageing can, indeed, be targeted and reversed at the basic cellular-biological level,’ lead researcher says
His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best friend came to help out for a couple weeks. And he never left.
One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]
Here’s what Biden could do to reverse Trump’s environmental rollbacks, ranked from easiest — done with the stroke of a pen — to hardest.
Today's links A machine learning wrecking ball : Even if you fix training data, you still have to reckon with underspecification. Nintendo vs Nintendees : Super…
