As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward. As I've ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

A driveway is an essential part of your home's landscape, but it's too often a gray concrete route to the garage that's purely functional, adding nothing to your home's curb appeal. Edge pavers or ...

The late, great architect Mike Strantz never hewed to convention. So it’s only fitting that a side project spawned by his most iconoclastic creation skips a few conventions of its own. At Tobacco Road ...

Built between 180 and 193 C.E., the column depicts the battles of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, with more than 2,000 highly detailed figures spiraling around the shaft. Stefano Venturini / REDA / ...

We’re living through an era of accelerated change, and leaders feel it every day. In five years, we’ve experienced the impacts of Covid and how it rebooted the norms we took for granted in how we work ...

My day job is a design educator, so for me, this time of year is filled with writing syllabi, planning new classes, and thinking about what the next generation of designers might need to know as they ...

Genshin Impact has offered some scaled-back in-game creation for players before. Events like Divine Ingenuity let players create custom challenges for one another to take on, while Serenitea Pot has ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...