Postpartum depression can hit as many as one out of five new mothers up to a year after giving birth. Yet some still get fired.
Depression. Anxiety. Bipolar disorder. OCD. These mental illnesses are not often thought of in the same context as a new baby. The latter is more likely to be linked with smiles and celebration. But recent research shows that these disorders or a combination of some can develop in as many as one in five women in the year after giving birth.
Why Instagram was the creative medium of choice for the filmmakers behind Shield 5.
Shield 5 is a captivating new thriller that follows a wrongfully accused man on the run, desperate to clear his name. It has a lot in common with shows like Homeland and 24, except for one tiny thing: Each episode is only 15 seconds long.
But researchers suggest data gathering is actually getting easier for intelligence agencies.
On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that encryption found on smartphones is “overwhelmingly affecting” law enforcement investigations and operations, reports Reuters. Interestingly, Comey revealed that the FBI has still been unable to access the data on one of the San Bernardino attackers’ phones because of its encryption.
U.S. regulator’s ruling puts it on equal footing with human drivers.
In a huge boost to Google’s self-driving car program, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday released a letter it sent to Google confirming that it agrees with the company’s interpretation that its artificial intelligence software behind the company’s self-driving cars can legally be considered the “driver” of the vehicle under federal law, reports Reuters.
The 51-year-old computing principle is now butting heads with the realities of physics and economics.
In 1965 Gordon Moore, who would go on to co-found Intel, wrote a paper in which he described what has become known as “Moore’s law.” It stated that the number of transistors on a microprocessor will double roughly every two years, meaning, in theory, that every two years the processors inside our devices would get twice as fast and be able to do twice as much. For the better part of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and into the first decade of the 21st century, Moore’s law proved to be correct—but only because it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, according to a recent article in the science journal Nature, which argues that the prophecy is about to come to an end.
They’re here, and nothing to panic over. But they do raise lots of intriguing questions, and might be a precursor of bigger changes to come.
Want to freak out a bunch of Twitter users? Easy: Just give them the sense that Twitter is about to change in some fundamental way, without providing much in the way of concrete details.
A personal tragedy was one of the motivations for Jeff Huber to seek out his new role as CEO of Illumina spinout Grail.
For many oncologists, the holy grail of medicine is a blood test that can detect cancer before symptoms arise. But developing such a test is a daunting challenge.
What happens when a music-deprived home is suddenly wired up with Sonos speakers and Apple Music? More sex, for starters.
Well, here you are once again, staring at a screen. It’s okay, we all do it. Constantly. In fact, there’s a good chance you’re sitting in a room with somebody else who is also gazing into the blue light of a smartphone or some other gadget right now. All of this technology, the common complaint goes, appears to be driving a wedge between us.
Companies should be required to encrypt data in transit and promptly fix vulnerabilities, wrote Twitter’s Michael Coates on Medium.
Twitter’s security chief called for greater regulation of Internet security in a Google-sponsored cybersecurity roundtable discussion hosted on Medium this week.
In his defense of Facebook’s Free Basics Internet service, Andreessen suggested India was better off under colonial rule.
Venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen was, unsurprisingly, disappointed that India’s telecom regulator recently thwarted Facebook’s plans to expand Free Basics, the company’s free but limited Internet service aimed at developing markets. On Tuesday, Andreessen turned to Twitter to air his grievances:
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