On a leap year, girls in Germany can decorate a birch tree to leave on their crush’s doorstep. This tradition is typically reserved for boys on the eve of May Day except on leap years.

A lot of annoying little hacks are needed to keep our integer-based calendar in sync with a floating-point universe, and the big one, leap day, passed us by this week. Aside from the ignominy of a ...

The current Mac Pro is a masterpiece of design that looks like a trash can. We’ve been waiting for someone to take one of these computers and stuff a MiniITX board in there, but seeing as how ...