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A new study suggests the Romans knew how to melt iron and used it to fill in wheel ruts and cavities on their stone streets

Lydia S. Dugdale looks at the tough choices families face when medical technology can prolong a loved one’s life.

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Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.

Over two decades of clips and news stories have been wiped from Paramount's family of websites.

The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?

This is the second of two articles on the origins of the Yiddish language. *** Yiddish, it is an understatement to say, is not simply a language. It’s a culture, an identity, a past both comic and tragic—one that continues to inspire feelings as diverse as…

FCC gets 1,600 complaints; users blast "deceptive advertising aimed at seniors."

ELIZA, often considered the world's first chatbot, was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in the early 1960s. Weizenbaum did not intend to invent the chatbot, but rather to build a platform for research...

For about thirty years, photographic education leans on the rule of thirds, and other geometry like the Golden Mean. But where did these really come from? And how were they meant to be used?

XAES-256-GCM is a new AEAD extended-nonce algorithm designed for high-level APIs and FIPS 140 compliance.

How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024"

An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion

Pay phones were thought to have an unpickable lock. Then James Clark came along.

THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Using a vast array of mirrors that focus the sun’s heat onto a tower, the technology’s developer Synhelion plans to use its process to produce greener fuel for planes…

The why and how a not-so good-looking “tractor” chronograph movement, born half a century ago, continues to influence the watchmaking world.

I used to be extremely confident in myself.
I was barely 20 years old and I would tell people how to sleep, how to make friends, and how to live their lives. I started a nonprofit aiming to literally rebuild the institutions of science from the ground up.…