I wrote recently about buying a Digital (DEC) vt420 and hooking it up to Linux. Among my observations on the vt420, which apparently were among the most popular to use with Unix systems, are these:…

A whimsical literary competition challenging entrants to write the worst possible opening sentence to a novel never written.

The legislation removes marijuana from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.

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Sale comes within months of DNS overseer pushing through controversial contract change

Google Stadia has a lot of power behind the scenes, but for some reason the company is blatantly lying about the 4K quality of some of its games.

Governments’ wholehearted support for the fossil-fuel industry is to blame

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Apple’s latest laptop design shows it’s listening to its customers in a way it hasn’t in recent years.

One woman stumbled into a side hustle that’s resulted in hundreds of free Amazon products worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Restless mobility in search of opportunity is an American hallmark, but new Census Bureau data finds that more people, especially millennials, are staying put.

Software chief Federighi is overhauling development and testing of iOS 14 to make it easier to spot problems early.

The wry author of “Slaughterhouse-Five” might have had mixed feelings about it

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is responsible for the most value creating corporate transformation of the 21st century due to sweeping cultural and strategic changes at a company regulators once tried to break-up.

Google is extending a ban on campaigns targeting ads at people based on their political leanings.

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