When a college or university says it's "test-optional," it means that school does not require students to provide their SAT or ACT scores when applying. This means it's left to each student to decide ...

The first optional conversation in The Quarantine Zone occurs during the 20 Years Later segment. After Joel and Tess leave the apartment at the beginning of the chapter, follow the path until you ...

Figure 1: Occasionally, Windows Update shows a link that reads “View optional updates.” (Click image to enlarge it.) This, by the way, is a return to functionality offered in Windows 7, when optional ...

Apart from rolling out major updates and security fixes, Microsoft also rolls out Optional Quality Updates. These updates can include bug fixes and driver updates and are only targeted at certain ...

In the past five weeks, Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown have all announced that they would once again require applicants to submit standardized-test scores, ending an experiment that began in 2020.

Windows 11 offers a wide variety of features, and many of them—like the Windows Subsystem for Linux and language packs—aren't installed by default. You can also ...

Windows Optional updates are not compulsory updates but are made available to users when they are available. While many PC users and IT admins choose to install the updates manually, new policies ...

In November 2022, Intelligencer published this story about MIT’s decision to require applicants to submit SAT and ACT scores again, two years after nearly every elite college in the country made test ...

Microsoft introduced support for named and optional parameters in C# 4.0. While a named parameter is used to specify an argument based on the name of the argument and not the position, an optional ...