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Apparently, being a global superstar like Katy Perry does not guarantee the legal rights to your own name. The popstar has just lost a long-running trademark battle in Australia over the name ‘Katy ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is Chief ...