Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

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Canada is taking its baby steps toward a basic income program meant to broadly address poverty. The Senate’s national finance committee began looking into Sen. Kim Pate’s proposal for a national ...

For the first time in many years, Monique Toutant thinks she might be able to buy herself some better groceries and some new clothes. As a longtime social assistance recipient, the 62-year-old Quebec ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...