Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

SHANGHAI—Hundreds of vendors at Shanghai’s largest clothing market were very busy. But they weren’t making sales. They were processing returns. At Qipu Road Wholesale Clothing Market, wholesalers send ...

Location: Southwest corner of Alma School and Pecos roads in Chandler. Description: A 141,366-square-foot Costco Business Center is under construction on a 18-acre vacant lot in Chandler. Unlike ...

How do you go about making a mirror with 128 segments, each of which can be independently angled? That was the question that a certain bloke over at [Time Sink Studio] found himself pondering on, to ...

Although Microsoft has improved File Explorer over the years, it still doesn't meet modern expectations. You can't open folders side by side, add tags to folders, pin ...

The Justice Department on Monday said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed. Attorney General ...

One of the changes that we've seen in phones over recent years has been more control over the file systems. Having previously hidden away a lot of the local storage structure, Android and iOS now both ...

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...

Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a declaration: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” he posted on Truth Social in January ...

Abstract: High-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets have huge advantages for providing strong magnetic fields within a compact structure and saving energy. However, it is almost impossible for ...

Microsoft updated its Windows 11 support documentation to clarify that AI agents now require explicit user permission to access six key folders: Documents, Downloads ...

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