The Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a letter to some regulated entities on Tuesday advised that "mention" markets have a heightened risk for manipulation. Mention markets are made up of ...

For nearly a century, ambitious professionals have turned to books about persuasion for help getting other people to say yes. From Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People to more ...

Billy Strings' late mother, Debra Apostol, introduced the three-time Grammy award-winning musician to alternative music early in his life. "I remember her playing [The Beatles'] White Album backwards ...

The acclaimed bluegrass artist's latest album is a profound meditation on grief inspired by the recent death of his mother. By Eric Renner Brown Over the last few years, virtuosic bluegrass player ...

Billy Strings is getting in touch with his emotional side. So Much For Goodbyes, Strings’ fifth studio effort, finds the guitarist dramatically letting his guard down on a heart-wrenching LP that ...

A single unauthenticated HTTP request to Metabase's password-reset endpoint was all it took for an attacker to gain full administrator access to an analytics platform trusted by tens of thousands of ...

Billy Strings has drawn from something old to do something entirely new. The singer and virtuoso guitarist, who is 33, has broken ground by using the elements of traditional bluegrass to become an ...

Real-world robotic manipulation in homes and factories demands reliability, efficiency, and robustness that approach or surpass skilled human operators. We present a real-world reinforcement learning ...

Scammers can be convincing in getting people to give away personal information and at times, even their money. Last month, a Fuquay-Varina man who lost more than $750,000 to a scam shared his story.

Billy Strings is still coming to terms with his mother’s death last June. The singer and guitarist takes one mere stop in that journey with his new album, So Much for Goodbyes. Due Aug. 28, the album ...

Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy processes. Figure 1: “Pulling oneself up by the ...

After breaking his leg in a backstage skateboarding accident in April, Billy Strings returned to the stage Sunday night (May 31) at Les Claypool’s concert in Detroit. The celebrated bluegrass musician ...