There once was a time when our oligarchs, instead of taking joyrides into space or buying private islands, occasionally did something magnanimous with their money. Take the Scottish-born steel magnate ...

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...

Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance. The cover of a U.S.

The Oak Lawn Branch, the Skyline Branch in the Buckner Terrace neighborhood, the Renner Frankford Branch in Far North Dallas and the Arcadia Park Branch in West Dallas are being recommended for ...

Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable. “A library is in a lot of ways ...

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Your browser does not support the audio element. Last month, I was debugging a particularly nasty data processing script that was taking 4 hours to run. Four. Hours ...

Refuse-derived fuel, or RDF, is essentially what the name sounds like: fuel made up of discarded materials, including agricultural waste and plastic trash. Every year, potentially large amounts of ...

Just because something isn’t nailed down at Wellesley’s Recycling and Disposal Facility doesn’t mean it’s for the taking. One minute, a contractor set down a charger and battery in the books area. The ...