For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

Nearly a decade after Pebble’s nascent smartwatch empire crumbled, the brand is staging a comeback with new wearables. The Pebble Core Duo 2 and Core Time 2 are a natural evolution of the company’s ...

The new estimate comes courtesy of a project called the Iceberg Index, which was created through a partnership between MIT and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a federally funded research ...

We’ve talked in the past about how the mechanics of short selling work, and how the rules around trading, holding, and reporting do, too. However, there remain a lot of misconceptions out there about ...

Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...

Boring can be beautiful—and, it turns out, bountiful. That’s certainly the case when it comes to investors’ long-term returns on mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. What I’m talking about is one ...

The Garmin Index Sleep Monitor is a niche but powerful accessory that solves a long-standing problem for dedicated Garmin users: how to get sleep data without wearing a bulky watch to bed. It works ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Nginx is the DevOps community’s most beloved http web server. And developers love the PHP ...

The VIX, or "fear gauge," measures expected stock market volatility over 30 days. A higher VIX suggests increased market stress and potential stock market declines. Stock market uncertainty from ...

Suppose you wanted to construct a new index to track the US stock market. What would you use as a model? The Dow Jones Industrial Average might be an option, but it’s hardly representative of the ...