Are There Generational Differences In First Coding Languages and Learning Resources?

"Under the age of 39? Odds are that most of your peers learned to code in C. "Most Baby Boomers and Gen Xers — or, those between t...

An 'Anti-Solar Panel' Could Generate Electricity At Night, Researchers Say

monkeyFuzz quotes Inverse: One of the problems with solar panels is that they don't generate electricity at night, so we have to store t...

Why Is 'Birds of Prey' Suffering at the Box Office?

The Warner Brothers/DC film Birds of Prey "is proving not to be the February box office success industry observers had hoped," acc...

Google's Heart-Warming Super Bowl Ad Called 'Evil'

"I had an uneasy feeling about the Google commercial," writes Larry Magid in his column for the San Jose Mercury News. "But I...

Will China Seize an American Company's Drug For Fighting Coronavirus?

"Chinese researchers reportedly have applied for a local patent on an experimental Gilead drug that they believe could help fight the n...

Intel's 'Clear Linux' Distro Beats Ubuntu and Windows 10 -- on an AMD Laptop

An anonymous reader quotes TechRadar: Intel's Clear Linux distribution looks like it could be the best operating system to run on cheap ...

A Long-Lost Legendary Roman Fruit Tree Has Been Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds

"Scientists have cultivated plants from date palm seeds that languished in ancient ruins and caves for 2,000 years," writes Scienc...