MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India has expanded the range of free services that any customer can receive from a zero-balance zero-fee basic savings bank deposit account, directing lenders to treat the ...

I tend to assume people who work in artificial intelligence live like the Jetsons. Even if they don’t have robot maids, surely they automate as many tasks as possible, right? Stella Dong is a ...

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 ...

In 2026, business class is going basic. That seems to be the plan for major U.S. carriers like Delta and United Airlines, which both have hinted at forthcoming launches of unbundled business ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

As we have seen in recent months, there are many reasons to be nervous about the growth and impact of artificial intelligence. AI is polarizing, it can spread misinformation and there are many signs ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you move out for the first time, no one ever tells you the amount of effort it takes to keep everything in your home in working order. As ...

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 ...