Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...

Swedish and Finnish marines launched amphibious operations from a US Navy warship in the Norwegian Arctic as they were getting ready for exercise Nordic Response 2024, which is part of NATO’s major ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced it will add more than 5,000 new words and 1,000 new phrases when the 12th edition of the Collegiate Dictionary hits bookshelves on Nov. 18 — marking its first new ...

Repeated prompts to enter your Git username and password are a frustrating annoyance developers can live without. Unfortunately, if your Git installation has not been configured to use a credential ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Passkeys offer a way of confirming you are who you say you are without remembering a long, complicated password, and in a manner that's resistant to common attacks on passwords like phishing and ...

Skibidi, broligarchy, inspo, delulu, and more terms have officially joined the Cambridge Dictionary in its growing list of new 2025 words. Some of the dictionary’s latest inclusions, which you can now ...