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A new DARPA research program is developing brain-computer interfaces that could control “swarms of drones, operating at the speed of thought”. What if it succeeds?

We're super happy to announce that as of downtime today, a bonus skill point week has kicked off as part of celebrations in the run up to Halloween!

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Another Penguin is injured, Joseph Blandisi hopes to click, and youth has energized the Pens once again. All that and more in today’s Pens Points!

The iPad is plenty good enough. But which one?

The great 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat once argued that “between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference — the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen, and also of those which it is necessary to foresee.” Being an avowed socialist, it is little wonder that Bernie Sanders falls into the category of a bad economist, however, his recently released housing plan makes it abundantly clear that Sanders... Читать дальше...

For full-time employees, put more weight on the soft skills. For contractors who don't make the technical cut, don't put your money down on them.

Pompey have collected five points fewer than they should have done this season.

On this day in 2006, Andy Cole insisted he could score the goals to keep Pompey pushing for Europe.

WASHINGTON — It is humbling to see total strangers attend the funerals of veterans’ who don’t have any family, but lawmakers are going the extra mile to avoid that problem altogether: Congress just passed a law allowing dying veterans to pick someone to be buried with them. Wow! How patriotic! In a closed session of […]

When I first heard about Google's Pixelbook Go laptop, I honestly didn't know what to make of it.

Ginny Hogan writes a series of humorous alternative origin stories of tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, and more, if their founders had been women.

Bruce Bochy is gone, and the San Francisco Giants are searching for a new manager for the first time in over a decade. Who will it be? It's a mystery! The Giants are reportedly interviewing a handful of candidates, some of whose names have emerged over the last few weeks. Here's every candidate that has been linked to the Giants' manager job:

There’s always something mesmerizing about watching a magician perform a trick.

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Brilliant or stupid?

Key point: It would have been a Cold War dream come true.

In the early 1980s, the Reagan Administration was looking to fund high visibility defense programs. Reagan had been elected on a platform of rebuilding the armed services after the “hollowing out” of the early 1970s.

One example was the reactivation of four World War II-era Iowa-class battleships, which started in 1982. Each of the four ships, Iowa... Читать дальше...

College health experts called the move short-sighted and risky at a time of growing mental health needs among students.

A 35-year-old resident of Okayama, Japan is in police custody after making death threats to Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara. Best known for the Rebuild of Evangelion anime series, Khara received threats over SNS that evoked the Kyoto Animation tragedy.

When Google introduced Cardboard at I/O 2014, a lot of people thought it was a joke. A cardboard-based contraption that turned your phone into a primitive VR headset seemed more like a kid's science project than a serious endeavor. But Google's Cardb...

Amanda, please! It might be hard to believe but The Amanda Show is 20 years old, with the All That spinoff centering on Amanda Bynes, serving as Nickelodeon's version of Carol...

In record fashion, Cody Simpson and Miley Cyrus have become the hottest thing since freshly toasted sliced bread. But its not as if the Australian pop star just slid into the recently...

Police are appealing for witnesses after the front windows of a bar were smashed in.

When I first walked past Sid Haig's booth at Kansas City Crypticon in July, I didn't see Captain Spaulding or any of the other characters he played in Rob Zombie movies. Similarly, his blaxploitation days opposites Pam Grier - sometimes as her boyfriend (like 1972's The Big Bird Cage), more often as her enemy (as in Black Mamma, White Mamma and Coffy) - were clearly far behind him. Instead, what I saw was a ...

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Our experts are split on every game this weekend with an NFC North team.

RALEIGH, NC - JANUARY 29: A general view of PNC Arena prior to the game between the Virginia Cavaliers and the North Carolina State Wolfpack on January 29, 2019 in Raleigh, North Carolina. | Photo by Lance King/Getty Images

What has the Pack given fans this time?

Thunder Bay police and the Ontario chief coroner's office are pushing ahead with new investigations into nine Indigenous deaths in the city, and the results could have implications for similar investigations throughout the province.