How do academic economists use A/B testing? How can you A/B test historical events? This question was originally answered on Quora by Susan Athey.

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New study shows the power of mobile in digital content consumption.

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I bet you’re tired of hearing “You’ve got to learn SnapChat!” But guess what – you do. For a whole bunch of reasons. SnapChat you may remember was the company that turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s $3 billion buyout offer when it had virtually no revenue. Now the founders – Evan Spiegel, and Bobby Murphy – are looking pretty smart.

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Keeping track of bugs will allow your team to not just fix the issues, but improve your codebase overall.

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The Panama Papers are hosted in an Amazon cloud now, but the journey to get them there saw a massive operation involving more than 400 reporters, and myriad security and open source technologies.

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Quantum Break debuts today on the Xbox One, and mixes live action with third-person adventure.

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Getting past the iPhone lock screen without knowing the password may seem impossible, but sometimes there are workarounds. For example, the FBI took Apple to court in order to have a customized backdoor created for the purpose of accessing the iPhone 5c belonging to the deceased San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook – which ended up being dropped since the government agency found a way to retrieve the data without requiring a backdoor. This week, a bug was found in iOS 9.3.1 that enables hackers to bypass passwords in order to access photos and contacts.

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