Statue of Xenophon located at the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walter Maderbacher CC BY 3.0 Among the innovations of Ancient Greece is tachygraphy, a method of ...

Google parent Alphabet said it will acquire Intersect, a data center company, for $4.75 billion in cash and the assumption of debt. Alphabet said the acquisition will help bring more data center and ...

Whether you have buddies in the military or have watched a ton of war movies, you've probably heard several phrases that you didn't understand off the bat. There is a shorthand often used by the ...

My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: “hru,” “wyd,” “plz”—truncated, cryptic, and never quite satisfying to receive. I’ll often find myself second-guessing whether ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

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Alphabet reported stronger-than-expected earnings results. The company reported blowout cloud revenue at $11.35 billion, up nearly 35% from the $8.41 billion a year ago. Alphabet's chief financial ...

Shorthand is widely referred to as stenographer - an art of writing quickly using specialised symbols and abbreviations. The word ‘stenography’ is derived from the Greek ‘stenos’ meaning narrow and ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...