I studied computer science at University College Dublin, where the four-year course covered a broad range of topics. We ...

From airbags to in-car perfume spritzers, Mercedes-Benz is always eager to adopt new features. But to make vehicle production more environmentally friendly, the automaker is looking backwards instead ...

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely. By Benjamin Mullin Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with ...

Versant, the new home for NBCUniversal cable networks being spun off from Comcast, will use USA Sports as the umbrella brand and division name for sports programming on USA Network and Golf Channel.

Sony has announced a Japanese-language only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition just for Japan. Revealed during its State of Play Japan broadcast, the cheaper 825GB PS5 Digital Edition costs 55,000 yen ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Directed by Paul Verhoeven, 1992’s “Basic Instinct” is an erotic thriller that stars Michael Douglas as a detective investigating the murder of a rock star and Stone as the seductive writer who is his ...