A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

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Time is one of the great enemies of even the best board games. It’s often hard enough to get a group of people together in the same space for a gaming session, doubly so if you need to find several ...

Strange, unknown noises near your house are never welcome – especially at night. However, it is said that a villager encountered the ultimate nightmare fuel when a 6.5m-long, 100kg python was found ...

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Sharing images and videos between iPhone and Android hasn't always been easy. Sure, you can text back and forth, or even send the files over WhatsApp, Discord, or other online messaging apps. But ...

The ninth generation of consoles has tread a rocky road, to say the least. Sony and Microsoft released the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X smack in the middle of a pandemic. The console war ended by ...

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool today to act as a virtual teammate for enterprise users providing digital agents to automate tasks, visualize data and take actions ...