The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

Four years on from the devastating Lismore floods the disaster recovery program that followed is being wound down. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on a house buyback program. And while ...

The Basic Income for the Arts programme follows a pilot scheme launched to help the arts sector recover after Covid-19 Artists based in the Republic of Ireland could be paid €325 (£283) a week by the ...

When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows Ireland is creating a scheme that will give artists a weekly income in the hope of ...

ST. LOUIS – A new report on St. Louis’ Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Program identified strengths and opportunities for improvement after 18 months of providing $500 payments to hundreds of families ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

UBI provides regular, unconditional cash payments to individuals without work requirements. Largest UBI trial in Kenya improved medical access and business startup rates. UBI's high cost and potential ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...