The highest price paid for a work by an Irish artist in 2025 was the $1,512,000 secured for Seán Scully’s oil on aluminium painting Landline Dark Blue (2017) at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art ...

As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...

TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Japan's factory output fell more than expected while retail sales declined for the first time in over three years in August, government data showed, heightening ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a simple implementation of the Valve RCON protocol in Visual Basic .NET 2019 Community Edition (Framework 4.7.2). Whith this library/class you can connect/authenticate/send commands/receive ...

Audio-visual learning has demonstrated promising results in many classical speech tasks (e.g., speech separation, automatic speech recognition, wake-word spotting). We believe that introducing visual ...

Looking back on her infamous "Basic Instinct" leg-crossing scene, Sharon Stone says she wouldn’t take it out, despite having had the legal right to do so at the time. "It made me an icon, but it ...

Eight producers, led by Saudi Arabia, will continue boosting production despite forecasts that supply will soon exceed demand. By Stanley Reed Eight countries that belong to the oil cartel known as ...