The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

Minecraft mods are an integral part of the gameplay experience, introducing a host of unique features and abilities to the vanilla world. While some add new mechanics, others let gamers interact and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

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 ...

A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# using Avalonia. This is a fun, toy project with no commercial intent. All rights to the Visual Basic name, icons, and graphics belong ...

This feature demonstrates three visual card tricks that rely on clarity and presentation rather than complex sleight of hand. Designed to be approachable for beginners, each illusion is broken down in ...

When students dig into a poem for the first time, they don’t always recognize the playfulness that poets use in their language, making it harder for students to get excited about what they are reading ...

Iran has re-emerged at the centre of international attention, following Israeli attacks on the Middle East’s second-largest country on June 13. Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Gulf ...

Despite ever-growing interest in AI tools and assistants, it’s worth remembering that they’re still quite limited with numerous shortcomings. They are not as smart as they might seem on the surface.