Understanding Business Logic: Key Concepts and Examples

Learn how business logic serves as the framework of rules and algorithms, enabling smooth data flow between databases and ...
The New York Times

I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been expanding. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Internal Revenue Service is shutting down its ...
Wall Street Journal

The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived

Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday. The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Open-Sources the BASIC Software That Powered Early PCs

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...
University of Vermont

Stored program paradigm

One of the most important breakthroughs in computing was the stored-program concept, proposed by John von Neumann and colleagues in 1945 in the design of the EDVAC computer. The idea was simple but ...
Purdue University

Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering

Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering Overview Purdue University’s online Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering is designed to produce students with firm grounding in space systems ...
USNI

Report to Congress on Army’s Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Program

The U.S. Army has requested Fiscal Year 2026 funding for small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS, commonly referred to as drones). These systems support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ...
TV Technology

UPDATED: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ends Its Next Generation Warning System Grant Program

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Following the passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025 that defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and left the organization without operating funds for the fiscal year ...
ProPublica

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors ...
Purdue University

Space systems degrees program meets the challenge of modern engineering

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is standing at the forefront of expanding space exploration and a future economy with the creation of the first-ever Comprehensive Space Engineering Degrees ...