Quanta Services: A Growth Opportunity At A Discount, Buy

Discover why Quanta Services (PWR) is rated a buy—driven by strong data center demand, revenue growth, and sector-leading ...
Connecticut Public

Marijuana rescheduling would bring some immediate changes, but others will take time

President Trump set the process in motion to ease federal restrictions on marijuana. But his order doesn't automatically revoke laws targeting marijuana, which remains illegal to transport over state ...
Wall Street Journal

A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work

The rise of artificial intelligence has made the conversation about a universal basic income (UBI) more urgent than ever. There are various predictions about what robots and automation and large ...
HotHardware

Commodore 64's Legacy Continues As Microsoft Open Sources 6502 BASIC

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

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 ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system

If you've done some programming on an original Commodore 64, it's basically that one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Intel ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

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 ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

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 ...
Power Engineering

Pacifico Energy plans 5-GW, off-grid facility in Texas for hyperscale data centers

A rendering of GW Ranch. Credit: Pacifico Energy. Pacifico Energy has announced plans for its GW Ranch project, a 5-GW off-grid power generation campus featuring gas turbines and battery storage that ...
Business Wire

Pacifico Energy Announces GW Ranch Project, Bringing 5 Gigawatts of Reliable Off-Grid Power for AI Innovation

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacifico Energy today announced plans for the GW Ranch project, an off-grid power generation campus that has been in development since early 2024. The project, sited within ...
The Hill

DOJ: George Washington University ‘deliberately indifferent’ to antisemitism

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that George Washington University is in violation of federal civil rights law and described it as “deliberately indifferent” to antisemitism on campus ...