Launched in July 2023 and quickly gaining 100 million sign-ups in five days, Threads from Meta has been called an X killer and an X copycat. Whatever you call Threads, the social media platform is ...

Threads might be turning DMs into mini playgrounds. Meta is quietly testing an in-chat basketball game that lets users shoot hoops directly inside Threads messages. The prototype, spotted by reverse ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Defense Department has tightened cybersecurity ...

Plenty of us are trying AI in different ways, but between the scattered posts and the skepticism, it never turns into a proper conversation. Not sure this is the perfect place, but here it is. I’m not ...

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python. Until recently, Python threads ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...