January 1, 2016 is 863 days away. But, judging from the headlines blaring across news websites and cable channels this August you might think it was next month. "Ready for Hillary?" asked a chyron on ...

The world of unexpressed information that an utterance carries along with it is called background information, which is also referred to as common knowledge or common ground, as it is assumed to be ...

At least 30 people were reported killed and dozens more wounded after explosions ripped through Zaventem Airport and a metro station in Brussels on Tuesday morning. The attacks came days after Saleh ...

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as ...

Old Coast Guard records are throwing cold water on a long-standing explanation for the loss of the Titanic: the suggestion that the fateful journey took place in waters bristling with icebergs, making ...

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ANN ARBOR—In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Cloudera has come forward with updates to its platform in line with its product roadmap and used its Evolve25 ...