Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

To enjoy Minecraft requires situating oneself within that technological utopia, where the world quite literally renders ...

American Airlines has made a change that affects how millions of travelers earn rewards on its cheapest tickets — and now the airline is facing some backlash for it. Under the updated policy, ...

Members of American Airlines' loyalty program will no longer earn miles or other travel rewards when purchasing a basic economy ticket. People enrolled in the carrier's AAdvantage program previously ...

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is expanding to San Francisco. The program sends a free book once a month to homes of children under the age of five. The program is made possible through a ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...