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 ...

Britons were urged to wear hats and slippers indoors today as millions endured a sub-zero return to work and school in heavy snow - with union bosses urging businesses to let staff work from home.

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The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, ending July 20, had 933 participants from 30 states and two countries. $25,000 in prizes will be awarded across professional, novice, and military categories. The ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught weighed ...

ARLINGTON, VA – The Washington Capitals announced today several initiatives across the Washington, D.C., region in honor of Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin becoming the NHL’s All-Time goals leader.

Burmese pythons in Florida. The invasive snakes number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc and destruction across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem. Native to ...

Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history. The invasive snake was first recorded in the Everglades National Park in 1979 and quickly put a stranglehold ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible. When you ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...