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Terry Gilliam gave science fiction fans one of the greatest movies of the genre in 1995's 12 Monkeys, and its ending is ...

While Mercedes aims to make cars easier to repair, BMW has patented roundel-shaped screw heads that push owners to dealer-only servicing and repairs. BMW patented a roundel-shaped screw head requiring ...

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For years, many mid-market companies invested heavily in dashboards and business intelligence tools, hoping visibility would solve execution challenges. Instead, the opposite often happened. A fill ...

There are many obscure and strange driving laws across the United States, but one law that's neither of those things is the one that criminalizes drinking while driving or driving while under the ...

I published a story last week that said the V8 is no longer America’s truck engine. That’s because manufacturers like Ford have increased six-cylinder production drastically in recent years, and ...

Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for ...

Have you ever found yourself juggling multiple tools just to keep your team on the same page? Between endless emails, scattered documents, and the constant back-and-forth of updates, staying organized ...

While we have the Python built-in function sum() which sums the elements of a sequence (provided the elements of the sequence are all of numeric type), it’s instructive to see how we can do this in a ...