The common theme for all of the fires was lightning. The names aren’t exactly catchy. In our newsroom, producers used a whiteboard Tuesday to keep track as the new fires popped up in parts of ...

There are vaccines you can get to prevent illness and medicine you can take to treat it. But in between, eating foods that boost immunity can help keep your immune system strong and functioning ...

Exetel has been penalised $694,000 after scammers were able to port mobile numbers to the telco and use them to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from bank accounts. An investigation [pdf] by the ...

And in response to the figures above... Home secretary Yvette Cooper says: "We inherited a broken immigration and asylum system that the previous government left in chaos," adding that the Labour ...

President Donald Trump claims that hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and millions of dead Americans have been removed from the Social Security system. The 79-year-old president celebrated the ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The precision of a double in Java is 10-324 decimal places, although true mathematical precision ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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