Finding the phone numbers of property owners can be a crucial step for various professionals. You may be a real estate investor, and you have found a gem of a property. You want to get involved ...

You must have received a call from an unknown number. Some of them would be spam or promotional, and you would dismiss them. Often you would have suspected them of being someone known or a fraudulent ...

I am parsing a logfile in C# and want to pull out certain lines that have a value. Currently I'm searching for terms and when that term is found I use string.substring to count over and grab the ...

In Daniel Tammet’s mind, three is a dotted green crescent moon shape, one is a sort of white sunburst and four is a blue boomerang. Every number has a distinct color and shape, making the number pi, ...

If the long wait times and hard-to-find numbers don’t make it clear enough, I’ll say it: Tech companies don’t want to talk to you. Here’s a secret I bet you didn’t know. You can have Amazon call you ...

Have you ever gone through a period of time where you saw the same number everywhere? Perhaps your morning coffee costs $3.33, and so does a gallon of gas when you fill up your car. Maybe then you log ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our community's answers. We occasionally dig into our question bag, provide ...