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 ...

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 ...

Travis Kelce has officially broken Taylor Swift's cycle of having to 'suppress her confidence' to 'false fit' with her partners, according to a leading body language expert. The loved-up couple, both ...

Abstract: Due to recent advances in multicore processor technology, parallel computing has received much attention lately. In this context, the need for a natural parallel execution paradigm makes a ...

Metal Hurlant, the French comic book anthology from the 1970s and 80s credited with reshaping the contemporary sci-fi aesthetic and inspiring films such as “Alien,” “Tron,” “Blade Runner,” “Akira” and ...

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Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...

Kim’s lifelong search for sound and its meaning is apparent in her survey at the Whitney, which ranges from the early 2010s to 2024. In one of her early sound-performative works, Selby Circle (2011), ...

In research using laptop screens, cats quickly learned to associate sounds and animations. Image credit: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock. In the age-old debate of cats versus dogs, cats just scored a ...