Does booting up your PC mean you can grab a coffee and take a bathroom break? Follow these 4 quick tips to get even an old PC back up to speed.

Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.

A century-old archive of IRA documents, detailing secret operations from the 1916 Easter Rising through to the Irish Civil War, has been found in an attic.

Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers can often feel isolated at work if they don't have a lot of other female colleagues. Fortunately, the internet has more ways for women in tech to connect than ever before. Here are just 40 examples.

The new law, set to take effect July 1, 2020, would require Internet service providers to get permission from their customers before any data could be sold to a third party. Legal pushback is expected.

Desert harvester ants charge into danger and dismantle spider traps

Researchers at Stanford studying scorpion venom have identified a pair of compounds that were shown to kill off both staph and tuberculosis bacteria. And better yet, they were able to create synthetic versions of them in the lab.​

The Revolution will be posted. At the height of the backlash against feminism in 1989, an Australian woman who thought American teen magazines were all “preserved in aspic,” started a new magazine…

In an attempt to analyze the myth -- or not -- of the chubby gamer, scientists reach a simple conclusion.

Bestiary manuscripts of the Middle Ages reflect the beliefs and superstitions of the culture that created them.

This is the story of the Apollo Guidance Computer that helped the Apollo astronauts safely navigate to the Moon. It was a computer that was so advanced that the engineers who created it said they probably wouldn't have tried to do so if they'd known what they were getting themselves into.

George Orwell meant his novel to be a warning, not a prediction—and that warning is relevant in new and unsettling ways.

Manuscript of works by the poet John Donne is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can step in to save it

The Emily Dickinson Museum, located in Amherst, MA, has received a $22 million gift as part of a larger bequest to Amherst College from the late alumnus, William McC. Vickery. "The transformative...

The advances of modern AI research could bring unprecedented benefits to game development

The most popular puzzle video game of all time turns 35 this week.

Before the mass adoption of the car, most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.

There is no harsher environment than a comedy writers' room, where teams of funny people create, cull, and kill ideas—and then sell their creations to the decision-makers. Veteran writers share lessons that can keep business teams on their toes and maximize creativity. @Enterprisenxt

The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.

DataOps—the practice of promoting collaboration across data experts and operations to manage and "unobstruct" the flow of data across pipelines—is the next-gen vision for data quality, remediation, integration, data models, and real-time analytics-driven apps. These tips can help your company get it right. @Enterprisenxt

Your introduction to the Mexican tomato crisis.

Paleoanthropologist Carol Ward explains how walking upright marked a milestone in hominin history.

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.

Tired of getting coupons, catalogs, and "pre-approved" credit card offers in your mailbox? Tara Calishain shows you how visiting a few websites can help put a stop to that pesky paper mail.