The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004 (aka, the April 2020 version of Windows), in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been …

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Bison and wolf populations are reviving in parts of Europe, in an effort to return some of the landscape to wilderness – but these large beasts are not always welcome.

For years, you may recall that we would write about the insane nature of forum shopping for patent trolls, in which the trolls would...

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As annual floods return to Italy's canal city of Venice, a newly installed flood barrier manages to keep the rising waters at bay -- a success hailed as vital to its tourism recovery

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Why did all major software companies settle on parallel career tracks? To keep engineering managers from developing loyalty to engineers.

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An indictment was unsealed today charging John David McAfee with tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney D.…

The year 2020 is unlikely to be marked with particular fanfare in Liberia, but it was 200 years ago, on 31 January 1820, that 88 African American men, women and children boarded a ship in New York Harbor with the intention of creating a colony in Africa where…

In an interview, Stephen Pyne, a fire historian and emeritus professor at Arizona State University, discusses the wildfires in California and steps that can be taken to help prevent them in the future.