A conversation with Sir Stephen Fry is a whirlwind of eclectic and esoteric references across a staggering diversity of knowledge that is stochastically connected in his polymathic mind to produce ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists began wondering whether mental work could be mechanized just like physical labor. This video explores how that question led Alan Turing to design the ...

Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a ...

The Tar Heels men’s basketball team is dealing with injuries to star players, while the school has administration chaos to deal with before deciding on the head coach’s future. There are few buzzwords ...

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney detailed to Minnesota to help handle the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities has been removed from her post after telling a ...

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company has about 5,000 open mechanic jobs, paying $120,000 per year, but still struggles to find enough qualified people to fill them. Farley thinks this reflects a ...

A hot potato: Ubisoft's many problems could soon get a lot worse. Five unions representing the company's employees in France have called for a massive international strike by all the firm's workers.

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The Atlanta Falcons have their new head coach, and it is a two-time NFL Coach of the Year. The Falcons announced on Saturday evening that they have hired former Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin ...

The writer and comedian Megan Koester got her first writing job, reviewing internet pornography, from a Craigslist ad she responded to more than 15 years ago. Several years after that, she used the ...

One of the first sentences I was ever paid to write was “Try out lighter lip stick colors, like peach or coral.” Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I’d scored a copy job for a how-to website. An ...