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Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Sources: Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in its UK offices, following similar offers in several US ...

I've looked at VR and AR headsets for well over a decade, from Google Glass and the first demos of the Oculus Rift to peeks at the future of AR glasses ...

Picture this: You’re a data analyst on day one at a midsize SaaS company. You’ve got the beginnings of a data warehouse—some structured, usable data and ...

For Japan’s train commuters in the years following World War II, buying a ticket could be a stressful experience. Today it’s not difficult to go online and ...

Organic bedding brand Coyuchi recently launched its own organic mattress, combining cotton, wool, and Dunlop latex atop individually wrapped coils. While ...

For most of the 20th century, the center of gravity in science was anywhere but the US. On the eve of World War II, the great laboratories were in Europe, ...

The NFL has come out with a memo for team officials to try to curb the rise of prop bets. With multiple sports franchises now dealing with rigged bets ...

“As these AI systems get more powerful, they’re going to get integrated more and more into very important domains,” Leo Gao, a research scientist at ...

When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone from the audience asked him if HBO’s hit satire Silicon Valley would be revived. ...

Financial Times: Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with ...