I suspect many TidBITS readers are of the generation that still uses the iPhone as a phone. Heck, many of us remember rotary phones that needed actual dialing, and some may even have had party lines, ...

The AEON Group holds “Pursuing peace, respecting humanity, and contributing to local communities, always with the customer's point of view as its core” as its foundational ideals, and operates ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...

Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn't rely on rows and columns like a traditional ...

Abstract: What criteria determine the beauty of a landscape photograph? The picturesque view in aesthetics suggests that non-aesthetic properties, such as composition, cause something aesthetic. This ...

In addition to U.S. President Donald Trump, this year’s survey also asked about other world leaders: President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Xi Jinping of ...

Python’s new template strings, or t-strings, give you a much more powerful way to format data than the old-fashioned f-strings. The familiar formatted string, or f-string, feature in Python provides a ...

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

Abstract: In relation to cattle farming, many researchers conduct research to find solutions to problems that arise, especially with cows in the barn. Early research on the importance of clean and ...

Elon Musk indicated in a post on X that millions of people listed in a Social Security database are recorded as centenarians "with the death field set to FALSE!" "According to the Social Security ...