What began in the 1990s as a modest incentive meant to foster economic development in a nascent field became a billion-dollar windfall of questionable effectiveness.

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Microsoft no longer officially supports Windows 10, but you still have an option to get one year of free security updates. Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, ...

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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Saturday, October 4, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrated its fortieth birthday today and presented the new president, the Librephone project, and a vision ...

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Argentina has approved Canadian miner McEwen Copper’s $2.7 billion Los Azules copper project in the country for a tax break program known as the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), the nation’s ...

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Some Windows 11/10 users have reported that after launching a program, it runs but doesn’t show up on the screen. The users can see the program on their Taskbar or the Task Manager, but it is not ...