The north east greengrocer hailed the Metric Martyr after being prosecuted for selling fruit and vegetables by the pound, has died suddenly aged 39. Steve Thoburn, a Sunderland market trader, was ...

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to ...

December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

Google Ads may be rolling out a new metric named "Original Conversion Value." This shows the raw data before Google does anything with it. As Natasha Kaurra wrote on LinkedIn - she was the first to ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

Join us as we convert a Ford E250 cargo van into a camper van over the course of a couple of months. We are learning throughout the process and welcome any questions about your own conversion.

14.2 million websites have already adopted Google Analytics 4 (GA4). But why? Because Google calls it their next-generation measurement solution, as it moves beyond page views and sessions to show how ...

Correction: A previous version of this story claimed the metric signage began in the 1980s. The decision was made in 1975. A unique stretch of highway in southern Arizona could soon lose what many ...