December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

The Seattle Seahawks tied the Los Angeles Rams in the fourth quarter off one of the strangest plays you'll ever see ... and yet another reminder to play through the whistle. Down 30-28 with 6:23 left ...

Palantir has seen government and commercial customers flock to its software. This has helped revenue and stock price soar in recent years. This tech company makes software platforms that aggregate and ...

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours. When ...

Google’s new “Original Conversion Value” metric gives advertisers long-needed clarity by revealing the true, unadjusted revenue their campaigns generate. A new column called “Original Conversion Value ...

Dariusz Jemielniak is Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Professor at Kozminski ...

IOWA CITY — Iowa football and the two-point conversion play need to have a talk. They haven’t gotten along well lately. Frankly, their relationship has been on the rocks for most of the last decade.

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado’s 2019 law prohibiting licensed health care professionals from providing so-called conversion ...

A popular internet cartoon depicts a young woman standing in front of a priest. “Father, I’m lesbian,” she says. The priest responds, “Ask God for help to cure you from that sin!” The woman falls to ...

Last year saw twice as much Manhattan office space start to be converted into apartments as the year before – a boom that’s poised to change the chemistry of Midtown neighborhoods historically ...