GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
PC Gamer

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...
CNN

Troops will receive $1,776 checks before Christmas, Trump announces

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would be issuing checks to members of the United States military for $1,776 – in honor of the country’s founding – calling the payment the “Warrior ...
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IRS stimulus checks: Who is eligible to receive $1,400 payment, what to know

The Internal Revenue Service is sending out $2.4 billion in stimulus payments to approximately 1 million eligible taxpayers who didn't receive 2021 COVID recovery relief payments. The big picture: The ...
NPR

Machado to accept Nobel as fight against Venezuelan regime intensifies

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado plans to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday. But the ceremony comes at an awkward moment because Machado appears to ...