The Scrabble Board was laid out on the table.  My sister, brother, and I arranged our tiles and began to play. After a few rounds, just as I was going to place the word ...

Among elite chess grandmasters, more than 70% of competitions end in ties. And that is just conventional "over the board" chess; in the growing realm of online competition known as "correspondence ...

The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached its second release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

TIOBE Index for February 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent February’s TIOBE Index shows a leaderboard that looks steady at first glance, but small shifts beneath ...

Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical: Tommy Korberg was nominated but did not win. Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical: Elaine Paige was nominated ...