Stranger Things 4 just became the second Netflix show to hit 1 billion hours viewed

A lot of people liked Stranger Things 4. | Courtesy of Netflix Stranger Things 4 , the most recent season of the hit show, just became th...

Fields Medals in Mathematics Won by Four Under Age 40

Four mathematicians whose research covers areas like prime numbers and the packing of eight-dimensional spheres are the latest recipients of...

TikTok is reportedly giving up on its live shopping plans in the US and Europe

Live shopping is big in Asia, but not so much elsewhere. | Image: TikTok TikTok may seem like an unstoppable global entertainment machine...

NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

jd writes: NIST has announced winners of its post-quantum cryptography battle of the giants. CRYSTALS-Kyber has been chosen for standard enc...

Why Britain's New Stamps Are Causing Outrage and Upset

Royal Mail's stamps are finally entering the digital world, with printed codes that can be used to track letters or linked to videos. Co...

YouTube, Instagram, Discord appear to pull pages belonging to Illinois shooting person of interest

The Verge YouTube, Instagram, Discord, and Twitter moved to quickly pull social media pages that appeared to belong to Robert Crimo III, ...

SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated!

Miguel Grinberg, a Principal Software Engineer for Technical Content at Twilio, writes in a blog post: We take blogging very seriously at Tw...