From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

RMI announced plans Tuesday to lay off 10 percent of its staff, citing “increased uncertainty around revenue sources.” Jon Creyts, the Colorado-based clean energy think tank’s CEO, noted in an evening ...

Abstract: The implementation of distributed applications can be based on a multiplicity of technologies, e.g. plain sockets, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Message ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is building a list of hundreds of grants and projects that it says no longer match department priorities and need to be cut, but one think tank whose grants were targeted ...

As the sports industry continues to evolve and push the boundaries of science and technology, athletes are achieving feats previously thought impossible—but their bodies continue to bear a heavy ...

In the 2012 film The Bourne Legacy, Agent Aaron Cross ingests special compounds referred to as "chems" to help maintain his mental and physical enhancements. Today, Dr. Vincent Giampapa, Co-Founder of ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...