HSBC has dispatched a senior executive from its London headquarters to Australia to personally oversee the final stretch of its $26bn retail bank sale – a clear signal that one of the biggest asset ...

Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at ...

MIDLAND, MI -- A newly released coffee table book chronicles the architectural transformation of Midland, Michigan, during the mid-20th century, documenting more than 400 structures built between 1930 ...

The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 with ISBN numbers jumped 32.5% over 2024, to more than four million books, according to statistics compiled by Bowker. The increase was led by ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

The push to ban books in libraries, schools, and bookstores throughout the country remains strong. Pioneering actor, author, and activist George Takei has been named honorary chair of Banned Books ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

The Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE Working Group has released Jakarta EE 11, the latest version of its enterprise Java platform, marking a significant step in modernizing enterprise Java development ...

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company ...

They pick a title, read it and then gather to discuss it in detail. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. But unlike more traditional ...