AGNC owns government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities  financed by shorter-term borrowing, benefiting from a positive ...

State pensioners on the Basic rate are set for a bumper £439 from the Department for Work and Pensions, or DWP. Nearly two thirds (64%) of state pensioners – 8.4 million – get the basic State Pension.

Older state pensioners will receive £9,615 a year from the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) under a Triple Lock change. As it stands, the basic state pension is a regular payment from the ...

A New Jersey lawmaker is proposing a nationwide pilot program for a guaranteed basic income. The 3-year experiment would give 10,000 Americans a monthly basic income. The payments would cover the ...

Over the past three years, bird flu — caused by the avian influenza A (H5N1) virus — has extended its reach around the U.S. and across many species. The virus arrived in wild birds, but it has now ...

No, it’s not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be. As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing ...

[Michael Wessel] found some of his old DOS 3D graphics software and tried to run it on an 8088 PC. The tale of adding an 8087 co-processor to speed up the rendering was anything but straightforward, ...

Multiplication on a common microcontroller is easy. But division is much more difficult. Even with hardware assistance, a 32-bit division on a modern 64-bit x86 CPU can run between 9 and 15 cycles.