Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

General Motors is now equipping new vehicles with the OnStar Basics plan as standard equipment, something The General has been doing since the 2025 model year. The plan keeps the vehicle connected to ...

On shelves at a Humanetics facility in Huron, Ohio, skulls stare from their eyeless sockets, shiny and silver. Around a corner, a rack is filled with squishy, peach-toned arms, legs, torsos and butts.

A New Crash Test Dummy That Better Resembles Women Gets Key Government Endorsement The U.S. government announced major design changes it wants to implement to make the female version of the vehicle ...

Curling your hair shouldn’t feel like a sport, but sometimes it does. It takes coordination, timing, patience, not to mention the risk of getting burned — all these factors can make the task daunting, ...

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Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

Baseball used to be America’s favorite pastime, but for better or worse, it has since been dethroned by the NFL. However, baseball still thrives in Latin America. On the surface, it’s simple: nine ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

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 ...