If you've ever wished Excel could handle text patterns the way Python or JavaScript does, these functions deliver exactly ...

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An online firewall might keep your computer safe from viruses and other unauthorized access, but the original firewall back in the 1500s was far more literal: the Oxford English Dictionary has ...

A surprising number of exotic birds are OK to own in California. With the exception of the aforementioned Quaker parrot, all ...

As for the AI bubble, it is coming up for conversation because it is now having a material effect on the economy at large. Some accounts estimate that AI is driving 90% of US GDP growth, while others ...

This year has had no shortage of alarming Chinese espionage efforts targeting the United States that were uncovered by government officials. 2025 saw the conviction of a former active-duty military ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

A PSF proposal to address vulnerabilities in Python and PyPi was recommended for funding, but it was declined because the terms barred “any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...