This as-told-to essay is based on interviews with Brook, a 46-year-old freelance data worker and mom from Michigan. Business Insider has verified her work history. This essay has been edited for ...

We approach strangers and invite them to spin a wheel with random, fun tasks. The interactions are friendly and voluntary, and participants choose whether to take part. The video focuses on light ...

As each new generation of computer processors arrives with a larger number of computing cores, computer scientists grapple with how best to make use of this proliferation of parallel power. Now ...