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About the name…. In southern Maine, there’s a small group of building professionals that get together monthly to discuss building science.  It sounds boring, I know, but truly it isn’t. Food is brought in, beer is consumed, a blackboard is present and a topic is brought up for discussion.  (topics like, high performance windows, venting cathedral

Otterkit COBOL Compiler Otterkit is a free and open source compiler for the COBOL Programming Language on the .NET platform. Warning: The project is currently in pre-release, so not all of the standard has been implemented. About COBOL was created in 1959 by the CODASYL Committee (With Rear Admiral Grace Hopper as a technical consultant

Some readers may be familiar with the cartoon “Happiness” by Steve Cutts. If you’re not, it’s embedded below. Please take four minutes to give it a watch if you haven’t already: Around the 30 second mark is a scene where the protaganist rat is waiting for a train to arrive at a packed platform. I

With its new 200-megapixel Isocell HP2 image sensor, Samsung will try to give smartphone photographers the best of both worlds: high resolution and good image quality in challenging conditions. The HP2 is in mass production. Samsung has neither announced its shipment date nor confirmed which phone it will arrive in. Still, the sensor is expected to

With all the drama surrounding Vince McMahon's tumultuous, real-life return to WWE, it's surprisingly easy to forget that the company's second biggest pay-per-view event is around the corner. WWE Royal Rumble 2023 takes place on Saturday, Jan. 28, different from the company's usual Sunday schedule. Thus far we know five matches that'll take place on the

This is a story about a lot of things. It's a story about Duolingo. Obviously. That's in the headline. But it's really a story about doing things for all the wrong reasons. It's also a story about how quickly gamification can transform one thing into another thing. And it's most certainly a story about how I am

Joel and Ellie's apocalyptic journey arrived on HBO Max this weekend, as the first episode of The Last of Us landed on the streaming service. The show adapts the legendary PlayStation video game series from developer Naughty Dog, with the nine-episode season 1 focusing on the initial entry in the franchise. The show premiered Sunday