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PostgreSQL leads in developer popularity in 2026 and offers advanced features for complex workloads. MySQL remains widely adopted, stable, and strong in traditional web and enterprise environments.

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When our son was 4 years old, he asked my wife and me: "Can you drive to heaven?" Out of the mouth of babes, right? It’s a question only a child would ask, but it raises a very adult question: Where ...

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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

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Peter Thiel hesitated when asked if he thinks the human race should survive. The question came up during the Interesting Times with Ross Douthat podcast, when the pair discussed AI. Douthat asks Thiel ...