How many true surprises are there in life? This was the question I asked Mrs. Bastard when she was pregnant with our first child and wanted ...

Every so often, your phone may ring once and then stop. If that happens to you, and you do not recognize the number, do not return the call. You may be the target of a "one-ring" phone scam.

Caitrin Keiper on the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion

Extension for Visual Studio Code - An extension pack that lets you open any folder in a container, on a remote machine, or in WSL and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.

Facebook’s loudest critic says social media profits by manipulating consumers.

The atmosphere of incongruity that pervaded this week’s annual Milken Institute Global Conference was practically palpable.

It's the time year for watery eyes and itchy noses, and if you're among the afflicted, you may be surprised to learn that decades of botanical sexism in urban landscapes have contributed to your woes.

On April 27, 2019, I gave a talk on how to use OpenBSD to write better software at CarolinaCon 15 in Charlotte.

About 1,000 people gathered to watch the liftoff.

Seeing your favorite band live will probably cost you more in data than in dollars.

The following photograph of a Fletcher Pratt Naval War Game in progress surfaced very recently on Facebook. When I saw it I was struck b...

As Amazon starts to roll out one-day shipping to its most loyal customers, it already has a logistics network spanning much of the U.S.