A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Abstract: State-of-the-art large data set high-precision sorting algorithms typically use hardware-accelerated radix sort. Advances in Dynamic Random Access Memory, Flash and High Bandwidth Memory ...

MOORHEAD — Trash left on the curb contains a treasure trove of information about the garbage habits of Moorhead residents. For example, around 14% of the material in Moorhead trash bins is recyclable, ...

The Indiana Senate held somewhat of proxy vote for redistricting during the ceremonial start of the 2026 legislative session Nov. 18, known as Organization Day. The vote was for a resolution that ...

I got a job at Google's main headquarters, but couldn't break my lease 300 miles away. Instead of paying for two apartments, I lived in my car on the Google campus for three months. It was a great way ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Trying to distinguish between the emails directly sent to me and which ones I was just being Cc’d into in my Outlook Inbox used to take me a heap of time. I’d need to wade through each one and read ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...