Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.

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Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case

TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult.
For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.

An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.

In 2011 I had a post,  here , about a real journal called  The Antarctica Journal of Mathematics . Note that I put in the link in the last s...

Why didn't the geniuses’ refrigerator ever make it to market?

When your iPhone isn’t in a familiar location, Stolen Device Protection can prevent thieves from making critical changes to your Apple account.

Search giant says delays not specific to any browser – just those evading advert breaks. YMMV

Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket” focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world.

As the rich pay to banish commercials, advertisers hunt for their attention elsewhere

Solal Pirelli A PhD student in Switzerland who blogged about a series of dubious conferences linked to potential citation fraud is being sued by one of the conference chairs, a professor of compute…

GM is still dealing with the fallout of its decision to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of developing its own in-house system. In the last eight months, the company has had to deal with skeptical dealers while still maintaining its in-house system…

As the Internet Archive appeals a court decision blocking alternatives to surveillance-ridden digital book licenses, a new report reveals that the world’s largest publisher may be selling readers’ intimate personal data to the highest bidder.

The US could end the unconstitutional, warrantless surveillance of its citizens by fixing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Eye drops are uniquely risky because the eye is an immune-privileged site.

Apple has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement, putting the iPhone maker's policy in line with rival Google and raising the hurdle officials must clear to get app data about…