December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line ...

One major Manhattan neighborhood’s skyline is being reused — rather than reshaped — by an office-to-residential conversion boom. Adaptive reuse is reaching record highs across the country, but nowhere ...

Electric vehicles’ power is always stated in kW. How is this different from the hp and bhp referred to in the context of power for internal combustion engines? Kilowatts – or kW – is the unit of power ...

As it wraps its third year in the ad business, Netflix is switching to a new metric to capture viewership on its ad-supported tier. The streaming giant said Wednesday it now reaches more than 190 ...

You’d have to go back to antiquity to find a similar flood of conversions. There’s a new wave of office-to-residential adaptive reuse in New York City, and it might be the biggest one yet. SEE ALSO: ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

This video breaks down why metric is the global standard, how it’s defined by the laws of physics, and why the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar remain the last holdouts. Could the world ever fully ...

Al Williams wrote up a seemingly innocent piece on a couple of rules-of-thumb to go between metric and US traditional units, and the comment section went wild! Nothing seems to rile up the Hackaday ...

I know many computer languages, but I’ve struggled all my life to learn a second human language. One of my problems is that I can’t stop trying to translate in my head. Just like Morse code, you need ...

THE readers of the article by Mrs. Anderton and P. H. Bigg on ‘The Yard Unit of Length’ 1 may be interested in the results of an investigation following a discussion on metric to inch conversion. The ...

Google is rolling out a new way to measure upper-funnel impact. Branded Searches — a conversion type first teased at Google Marketing Live 2025 – is now live. Why it matters. Advertisers can now ...