Mayor of Johannesburg Dada Morero has sheepishly confirmed that repairs to a large pothole in Douglasdale – swam in by Helen Zille during a PR stunt – has commenced. Zille – who is the city’s mayoral ...

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists The concepts could be baffling; one manager said: ‘I don’t care if the program talks to itself, as ...

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Exactly two years ago today, Josh Allen sat at his locker. Thirty-six minutes had passed since the Buffalo Bills lost a home divisional playoff game to the Kansas City Chiefs, 27-24. The Bills’ ...

Even without Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert, the Minnesota Timberwolves dominated the host Milwaukee Bucks 139-106 on Tuesday behind 29 points from Julius Randle. Bones Hyland added 23 points for ...

The story of Flash Fill and (how it shaped) me On the occasion of receiving the most influential test-of-time paper award for his POPL 2011 paper (which describes the technology behind the popular ...