Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping down at Alphabet. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet ~tech google Link 18 votes
US Food and Drug Administration bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc ~health Article 3536 words 7 votes
In terms of reading test score points per hour of learning, Finnish students came out on top, followed by kids in Germany and Sweden ~life education Article 230 words 5 votes
Stellaris Recommends: Sci-fi book recommendations from the team behind Paradox's grand-strategy-in-space game, including notes on prominent tropes and what each book does well. ~books science fiction Link 9 votes
Denmark completes contentious fence along German border – the fence is meant to prevent wild boar from spreading swine fever to Denmark's lucrative pork industry ~enviro Article 696 words, published Nov 30 2019 7 votes
A system designed to allow a disabled musician to play the guitar with one hand (and a foot) ~music Link 6 votes
There’s no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence ~tech Article 7652 words, published Oct 14 2017 11 votes
Danish artist Tal R seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches ~arts art Article 546 words 8 votes
We should absolutely find out the Queen is dead from a guy named Gibbo ~tech social media Article 1570 words 8 votes
Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years ~games Article 728 words 17 votes
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish ~tech Article 7554 words 10 votes
The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects ~science psychology Article 2281 words 7 votes
Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost Catholic Church over $4B ~humanities religion Article 2690 words 8 votes
Gary Kildall: The man who could have been Bill Gates ~tech microsoft Video 12:48, published Jun 14 2018 6 votes
Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance ~tech privacy Article 13 070 words 9 votes
Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday ~books literature Article 576 words 6 votes
The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers ~tech privacy Link 8 votes
Norwegian convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia's submarine fleet ~misc Article 4 votes
DEF CON 27 conference - Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso money mule ~life Video 19:55, published Nov 16 2019 6 votes
Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety ~transport Article 466 words 10 votes
How a meteorite ruined an Alabama woman's afternoon sixty-five years ago ~space Article 650 words 9 votes
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group ~tech Article 5665 words, published Apr 14 2019 13 votes
All you need to know about UEFA Euro 2020 Group B contenders Denmark, Finland, Belgium and Russia ~sports.football Article 904 words 6 votes
Artificial loneliness - Appreciating the rare moments of emptiness inside the busy worlds of modern gaming ~games Video 17:06, published Nov 19 2019 6 votes
Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions ~tech Article 814 words 23 votes