Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

An informal economy of Indian tutors is offering cheap, personalized AI classes. The tutorials teach basic AI skills that help small businesses and digital workers be more efficient and earn more. The ...

nanoBASIC UNO is a minimal BASIC interpreter developed by shachi-lab for 8-bit AVR microcontrollers (Arduino UNO / ATmega328P). It is a modern reconstruction of the original BASIC interpreter written ...

Cook County, which includes Chicago, ran a two-year basic income experiment in 2022. During the pilot, thousands of residents received $500 a month to spend however they wanted. The county has now ...

One of our travel reporters flew basic economy from LA to NYC on American Airlines. Another reporter took a basic economy flight from Salt Lake City to NYC on Delta. Both had more spacious seats than ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...

It’s been a little more than three decades since Basic Instinct first hit the big screen, but folks are still talking about the erotic thriller that thrust Sharon Stone into the limelight—primarily ...

Last year, I wrote about the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study (ORUS), an experiment in which lower-income Americans were given $1,000 a month for three years—a short-term test run of proposals ...

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. is a news writer focused on ...