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The Powerball jackpot is continuing its climb into the lottery game's record books. Powerball officials announced that the game's estimated jackpot for the Sept. 3 drawing has grown to an estimated $1 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

The second-largest Powerball jackpot in US history has been claimed — and after taxes, the record-shattering prize looks a lot smaller than the headline figure. Saturday’s $1.787 billion drawing ...

Could the next lottery winner hail from South Carolina? The Powerball Jackpot is one of the hottest tickets around as the total payout has reached the $1.3 billion mark, which will mark the sixth ...

The Powerball jackpot for the Sept. 3 drawing has grown to an estimated $1.4 billion. A standard Powerball ticket costs $2, with optional add-ons like Power Play and Double Play available for an extra ...

The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.70 billion after no one won the top prize on Sept. 3. The winning numbers for the Sept. 3 drawing were 3-16-29-61-69 and the Powerball was 22. While ...

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STUTTGART, Germany — Defense spending among NATO allies will increase by more than 15% in 2025, the second largest annual jump in more than a decade as collective expenditures rise to $1.6 trillion, ...

Apple has made available the sixth public beta of iOS 26, bringing a more stable version of the software to a wider audience following lengthy testing by developers. Keep reading to learn how to ...

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing is up to $1.7 billion Nobody hit the Powerball jackpot after the Sept. 3 drawing The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million With ...