NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Mary Beard, author of "Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old," about the modern world's continued fascination with ancient cultures. Mary Beard was about 5 years old ...

It’s been a long four years for Bay Area chefs, bartenders and restaurateurs at the annual James Beard Awards — but after a serious dry spell following Brandon Jew’s win of Best Chef: California for ...

Hilary Pollack is the deputy editor at Eater. She has more than 15 years of experience in culture journalism and food media and is always down to order for the table. On Monday, June 15, the James ...

Google announced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a new specification for representing organizational knowledge so it can be shared with AI agents, tools, and organizations. OKF uses markdown files, ...

Bottom line: GitHub's move from flat-rate "requests" to metered usage is forcing many developers to confront something they had largely ignored: how many tokens their everyday coding habits consume ...

Effective Monday, all Texas Commercial Driver License and Commercial Learner's Permit knowledge exams will be given in English only, according to a release from the Texas Dept. of Public Safety. Prior ...

That's a line from a Yeats' poem, appropriately entitled "A Drinking Song." Love did indeed come "in at the eye" for the distinguished classics scholar Mary Beard. In her new book called, Talking ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces changes to the state’s commercial driver license (CDL) testing process. Effective today, all Texas CDL and commercial learner permit (CLP) ...

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many ...

Outages have plagued Microsoft's GitHub unit this year as the soaring popularity of vibe coding stressed its infrastructure. GitHub's drawn-out migration to Microsoft's Azure has limited its computing ...

GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus. GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been ...