A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Thousands of international packages remain stuck in U.S. warehouses following changes to customs requirements on August 29, 2025, which ended the de minimis exemption for shipments under $800.

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

In working cattle ranches throughout the world, separating cows from their herd is an age-old necessity for reasons of inoculations, doctoring or various other ranching activities. Cowboys on ...

TimeSplitters is one of those weird series that I look back on quite fondly despite never having owned a single one of the games as a wistful youth. I think I've got one kicking around somewhere these ...

Maria Ressa has a chilling way of describing the world we now live in. She argues that an “invisible atom bomb” has exploded in our information ecosystem, that technology platforms have infected us ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

EDF confirmed its intention to invest in the Sizewell C nuclear power project in July 2025. Credit: Chris Ratcliffe via Getty Images. EDF has announced financial closing of the Sizewell C nuclear ...

President Trump on Tuesday fired all six sitting members of a board that oversees architecture in Washington, D.C., CBS News has confirmed, as the president plans a slate of major building projects in ...

Recently I returned from a long weekend in San Diego, where my wife and I, along with my brother and sister-in-law, spent three full days working through two large mini-storage units full of items, ...