A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Those of you who packaged family gifts in reusable fabric sacks or pretty holiday gift bags are ahead of the game. You can just put those suckers back in a storage box, along with any sturdy bows and ...

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Holiday shoppers looking for handmade gifts for their family and friends — or the workplace white elephant exchange — can take advantage of the many pop-up markets taking place in the Philadelphia ...

Copper golem is a brand-new mob in Minecraft that arrived with The Copper Age game drop. Its primary purpose is to sort items in different chests. The mob spawns with a copper chest, which it will ...

Marketing & Operations Manager Cally Biggs shares her “vacation test” for deciding what to keep. Decluttering isn’t about having less; it’s about making space for what actually matters. Experts ...

This week Amazon debuted a new warehouse robot that has a sense of "touch," but the company also promised its new bot will not replace human warehouse workers. On Monday, at Amazon's Delivering the ...

This is a really odd issue. In a computed getter, I return an array of reactive items. So far, I was able to change values in these items reactively without retriggering a computation of the entire ...

Do you need to know how to sort Java objects in a collection, array, or map? Here's how to use the Comparable and Comparator interfaces and avoid ClassCastExceptions. Programmers frequently need to ...