It's a truism that first-person shooters just don't work on touchscreen devices. Of course, this doesn't mean plenty of developers haven't tried. Gameloft is still banging away with its Modern Combat ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

A description of the measures used for weight, length and volume in the past, such as cubits, spans, feet, grains of barley, stones and pints. The metric system was introduced to standardise weights ...

An oft-repeated "weird fact" is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country's standard system ...