Members of American Airlines' loyalty program will no longer earn miles or other travel rewards when purchasing a basic economy ticket. People enrolled in the carrier's AAdvantage program previously ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...

Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the not-yet-titled relaunch of the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas ...

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C-SPAN introduced new on-air graphics on June 2, 2025, replacing its previous insert design across its programming lineup. The graphics feature updated typography and formatting elements that appear ...

Abstract: Generating 3-D wireframe from point cloud has been widely applied in 3-D measurement. The primary challenge lies in accurately detecting edge points and constructing complete wireframe ...

Abstract: We study a problem of modeling wireframe meshes where the vertices and edges fall into a set of discrete equivalence classes, respectively. This problem is motivated by the need of ...

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...