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The unprecedented surge in shares and home values during an economic crisis is easing the retirement path for those who have savings and investments.

No food is more associated with Ireland than the spud—which didn't appear there before the late 1600s. So what did people eat till then?

Workers are hitting the picket lines, fed up that employers’ pandemic-era boom times aren’t improving their lives.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa have revealed the presence of persistent water vapor—but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere.

He was, according to mathematician Mark Kac “in his taxonomy of the two types of geniuses,” a “magician” and “a champion of scientific knowledge so effective and so beloved that he has generated an entire canon of personal mythology,” writes Maria Popova…

Researchers peering into Earth’s interior found two continent-sized structures that upend our picture of the mantle. What could their existence mean for us back on Earth’s surface?

Tens of thousands of wooden stakes poking up from British Columbia's shoreline have smashed a long-held stereotype of Canada's First Nation people.

If I stop surfing the Internet, what am I going to do all day?

#Shorts About 80 % of comments that people post on my videos disappear without a trace. They do not appear on “Held for review” or anything. Here’s a demonstration of the phenomenon. Note that this is MY OWN VIDEO that I am commenting on, in this video. …

Using his YouTube channel to bring old languages back to life, Roper is emerging as a new kind of digital historian.

Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux. Contribute to AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq development by creating an account on GitHub.

Analogue OS is purpose built for exploring and celebrating all of video game history

The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

Alan Kay — “father of personal computers" — is best known for his work on personal computing and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.

The 1.18 release of the Go language is likely to include by far the biggest change to the language since its creation: parametric polymorphism, colloquially called generics. There has been much dis...