Along with simple shortenings such as n. or num., one of the more curious methods is the number sign or hash symbol, #. And as that symbol gradually simplified and merged together over time, our ...

Under a new partnership with the government aimed at combating fraud, Britain's largest mobile carriers have committed to upgrading their networks to eliminate scammers' ability to spoof phone numbers ...

For those wondering, Dictionary.com says, "It’s an example of brain-rot slang and is intended to be nonsensical and playfully absurd." "While the term is largely nonsensical, some argue it means ...

The defining expression of 2025, "67," has been crowned Word of the Year by an unnamed source. This viral, meaningless number, originating from a song lyric, has become a generational inside joke and ...

While we were expecting interest to pick up in Battlefield 6 with its first Season 1 content drop, we weren’t entirely expecting the free-to-play Battle Royale mode, Battlefield 6 Redsec to arrive at ...

The Department of Energy has told employees to avoid using certain words, including "climate change," "green" and "sustainable," according to an internal email sent to staff and obtained by NPR. The ...

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...

“Your tongue’s flapping, but no noise is coming out of your big mouth!” is a memorable line spoken by Looney Tunes’ classic rooster Foghorn Leghorn. It also sums up the current state of the Democratic ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A simple application that prints nothing more than the words Hello World is the seminal start to ...

The snapshot shows a deepening problem in Clark County, a region experiencing a housing crisis and where homelessness has been deemed an “emergency” by Vancouver, the largest city in the metro area ...

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The number of homeless people across L.A. County declined 4% in 2025, marking the second consecutive drop after years of steady increases, with a 10% decrease of people living in the streets, ...