The US pharmaceutical giant must pay $572m for its part in fuelling Oklahoma's painkiller addiction crisis.

Every year, Paris holds a Grand Prix to crown the city’s best baguette – and in recent years, the winners have been bakers whose ‘origins’ are far from France.

I was looking through the strlen code here and I was wondering if the optimizations used in the code are really needed? For example, why wouldn't something like the following work equally good or b...

Logo is perhaps most famous as the language used to program a robotic turtle.The turtle is physical or virtual, moving around a floor or a screen.As the turt...

A Queen's Wish screenshot. Note that I use game art that I like to look at. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for years, and...

It’s 2019, and Windows 10 has too many useless and annoying features. Don’t get me wrong: Windows 10 has gotten better and, overall, I love it compared to Windows 8. But some things just need to go.

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One passenger in a Waymo self-driving car complained that the awkward end to his ride felt like he was getting dropped off by his dad. Others said their Waymo rides made them late to work. Another praised his car for coping admirably with “idiot drivers”…

If you have a Tesla Roadster and you live in the Pacific Northwest, you probably know Carl Medlock.

A research team from India's IIT (Institute of Technology) Madras has officially developed the world's first iron-ion battery, which promises a low-co...

A group appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed seismic changes to the nation’s largest school system.

What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time on a Windows 10 machine?

When I launched Google Chrome for the first time (and let it sit for a minute), 32 requests were made, and 7.26 MB of data downloaded.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. You could circle the house to the north or south. There is a small mailbox here. > open the mailbox Opening th…

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