The highest price paid for a work by an Irish artist in 2025 was the $1,512,000 secured for Seán Scully’s oil on aluminium painting Landline Dark Blue (2017) at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art ...

As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...

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 ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 Arrives With ‘AI Woven Into Workflow’ Your email has been sent First major visual studio upgrade in five years AI, performance, and ...

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 ...

Directed by Paul Verhoeven, 1992’s “Basic Instinct” is an erotic thriller that stars Michael Douglas as a detective investigating the murder of a rock star and Stone as the seductive writer who is his ...

Looking back on her infamous "Basic Instinct" leg-crossing scene, Sharon Stone says she wouldn’t take it out, despite having had the legal right to do so at the time. "It made me an icon, but it ...

Sharon Stone is tackling her infamous leg-crossing scene and explaining why she didn’t pull it from “Basic Instinct.” The Oscar-nominated actress, 67, discussed the controversial moment from the 1992 ...

Universal or guaranteed basic income programs are gaining momentum across the country, as local governments and nonprofits experiment with the bold new alternative to traditional welfare models.

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...