Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

In the early 1900s, Henry Ford observed meatpacking disassembly lines; that insight led to the automobile assembly line

The assembly line's invention wasn't a solitary "eureka" moment but an evolution driven by open-minded observation. Henry ...

Here are all the items Greenville will and won’t pick up from the curb besides normal trash

Greenville, SC, has an app that tells residents everything they need to know to get trash collected. (City of ...
Network World

Deconstructing the data center: A massive (and massively liberating) project

As far as unheralded IT undertakings go, decommissioning a data center still sits atop most CIOs’ list. Yet the complex work ...
Discover Wildlife

‘They stop the world from filling with carcasses, dismantling the dead with astonishing speed.’ Inside the necrobiome

Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...