Internet Explorer cheated its way to the top, and I won’t miss it

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I started teaching myself HTML in earnest after I attended a crowded presentation at the Modern Language Association in the…

People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron

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Science deniers who expect medical research to be as tidy and predictable as a chapter in a middle school textbook…

Farewell Internet Explorer: You Weren’t All Bad

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The main reason I still dislike Internet Explorer was because its popularity often meant you had to create one version…

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Rewatching ST:DS9 On a stormy night on Bajor, a widower in an elegant salon with no electric power offers to…

Sarah Polley: ‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’

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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen

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Science writer Jon Horgan writes: We live in a world increasingly dominated by science. And that's fine. I became a…

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

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We've all encountered this scene in all the the AI-goes-amok stories, just before the scientist's "Fools! I shall crush you…

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Rewatching ST:DS9 After-hours at Quark’s, Dax is gambling with the Ferengi and casually challenging their uber-patriarchy. A spunky young waiter…

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Rewatching ST:DS9 Bashir shows off an electric wheelchair that he replicated to accommodate the mobility needs of Ensign Pazlar, a…