Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.
Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said current and prospective CS students need to focus on skills "with a long shelf life."
Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin studied graduate computer science at Stanford—but admits Gen Z no longer needs a degree to land a high-paying job at the tech...
John Stecher says software engineering has become more popular, but there are fewer mentorship opportunities for entry-level workers.
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Worried about your job? Well, 'largest infrastructure buildout in human history' will require more plumbers, Huang says.
As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.
Despite everything, science goes on.
Yoshua Bengio, known as one of the "AI godfathers," said that while more jobs will be automated by AI, human qualities like love will always be valuable.
For 21 years, the SETI@home project tapped personal computers to analyze unusual radio signals from space.
Researchers used satellite data and computer models of glacial movements to create a new map of Antarctica as it rests deep beneath the ice. The high-resolution imagery reveals the frozen continent's landscape in detail, including "high-relief alpine valleys,…
Job quitters have become outliers in a frozen hiring market. Those who do it say the uncertainty was worth it to take some agency over their lives.
The massive AI buildout is demanding more manual labor jobs such as plumbers and electricians. Jensen Huang says salaries are surging as a result.
Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.
At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November's Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference: [R]esearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institu…
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen spent about five months creating a pair of 3D-printed smart glasses that can translate text-to-speech.
Most of the schools in the territory have been damaged or destroyed during the war, Unicef says.
John Stecher reads about technology in another industry on his daily subway ride to work and spends his weekends being hands-on with tools.
Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz said AI will boost life quality but warns a frictionless future could leave people searching for meaning.
Kashmir Hill reports for the New York Times: Schneiderman, the computer science professor, calls the desire to make machines that seem human a “zombie idea” that won’t die. He first noticed ChatGPT…
Mark Zuckerberg famously dropped out of college to focus on Facebook. The cofounder of Manus says he took the same path — and now they have merged.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta are all paying top dollar to attract and develop the best new talent.
Rong Yan, now the chief technology officer at HeyGen, says it is better to focus on things you can control.
Tivara raised a $3.6 million seed round, backed by Mischief VC, Day One Ventures, and Y Combinator. The startup builds AI agents for healthcare.
The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few at…
Millions around the world are living in the shadows as stateless people as they lack official papers.
FIRST and LEGO Education share an exciting new era of FIRST LEGO League, designed to inspire the next generation of learners through STEM experiences in classrooms and beyond. Future Edition launches in August 2026.
It’s better to be a big fish in a little pond, Gladwell argues in his book David and Goliath.
The AI boom is threatening white-collar entry jobs—but it’s creating a booming six-figure opportunity for electricians, plumbers, and construction workers.
Airtasker CEO Tim Fung said trade work represents one bright spot for gig workers as automation takes more jobs.
Maddy Zhang spent over four years at Google. She shared five tips for getting into Big Tech, from referrals to technical interviews.
Scott Wilder, a partner at BCG, went in-depth with Business Insider on how the firm is shifting from services to AI-driven products.
Key to the game was an analog computer designed to calculate ballistic trajectories, which Higinbotham adapted for more entertaining purposes.
Researchers develop a camera with spatially selective focusing, allowing the lens to focus on objects at many different distances at once.
Доброго времени суток, коллеги!Меня зовут Влад, и в этом году я поступил в университет MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Абу-Даби, ОАЭ) – первый в мире университет по искусственному интеллекту. Основанный в 2019 году, он уже усп…
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В 2025 году мы наблюдали тектонические сдвиги в списках Forbes: молодые фаундеры бьют рекорды скорости накопления капитала, которые раньше казались невозможными. Еще в апреле 2025 года титул самой молодой self-made миллиардерши удерживала 30-летняя Люси Го. Н…
AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a first language, potentially shifting global centers of resear…
AI is moving fast and bringing a whole new vocabulary with it. This glossary will help you stay up-to-date.
Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics—but their incredible power also makes them surprisingly vulnerable. New research from Penn State warns that today’s quantum machines are not just futuristic tools, but …
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About Clearspace Clearspace is building the intentionality layer of the internet. Our mission is to build technology as effective at protecting human attention as social media is at exploiting it (infinite scrolling, short-form feeds, manipulative notificatio…
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In Germany, as in many countries, AI topics are rapidly entering formal computer science education. Yet, this haste often risks us focusing on fleeting technological developments rather than fundamental concepts. As computer science educator Viktoriya Olari, …
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: <ul> <li>I’m speaking at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on January 27, 2026, at 1:30 PM ET.</li> <li>I’m speaking at the Université de Montréal in…
This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run …
Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the robots swim by manipulating electric fields rather than us…
Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private space telescope
Clint Crawford has a message for parents who are concerned about the shortage of white-collar entry-level work: open their minds to the possibility of a...
Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.
Immer wenn man das Thema Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstellen liest, klingt das in erster Linie nach Science-Fiction. Trotzdem passiert dazu gerade ziemlich viel Spannendes. So beteiligt sich OpenAI unter anderem an der Finanzierungsrunde von Merge Labs, einem Fors…
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, one could participate in a variety of (mostly novel) hobbies that all asked “what-if”: reading and watching science fiction (especially Star Trek), reading the wr…
Rishab Jolly, a senior PM at Microsoft, uses AI tools to help him draft documents for work, and to speed up research for his podcasting hobby.
After my son asked about our family history, I set out to uncover my father's lineage, piecing together a family tree once lost to silence.
This software engineer couldn't land a Big Tech job — but says his Walmart role gave him everything he needed.
The rise of AI has given us an entirely new vocabulary. Here's a list of the top AI terms you need to learn, in alphabetical order.
Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with highly reactive surfaces that can drive unusual chemical reactions, even in extreme cold. These reactions could produce more reactive…
Robin Williams couldn't resist humorously referencing the rumors about Spock dying in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when William Shatner cameoed on the show.
A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how systems evolve over time and reduces thousands of variables into compact equations that still capture real behavior. The method works acr…
Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, this approach avoids the traffic jams that limit today’s AI…
POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most ...
'80s comedy Teen Wolf might've never become a box office hit if the executives behind it hadn't taken advantage of the release of another Michael J. Fox film.
АннотацияВ 1936 году Алан Тьюринг, пытаясь формализовать пределы вычислений, сформулировал вопрос, навсегда изменивший не только компьютерную науку, но и наше понимание границ познания. Этот вопрос — известная как «Проблема остановки» — звучит обманчиво прост…
Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the new gadgets and gear debuting at CES. The show has once again delivered an avalanche of pro…
Ruchir Baronia left behind an incredible salary, stock refreshers, and interesting problems at Meta after a year and a half to build his AI business.
Successful job seekers on LinkedIn used overlooked filters, direct messaging, and strategic online posting to stand out and secure new job offers.
What if a group chat of fellow laid-off Microsoft workers helped you find your next job? Job seekers are finding solidarity — and new gigs.
Donovan was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., when a mass shooter killed 17 people on Feb. 14, 2018
Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.
The fact that Crew-11 is the first to leave the International Space Station early due to a medical issue is a testament to the safety of NASA’s human spaceflight program.
Fake images, videos, and audio files crossed the “indistinguishable threshold" this year. Where do we go from here?
This shift raises questions about what a college education is worth, especially as artificial intelligence tools improve.
Interview with Steve Young on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Dr. Michael Levin — Reprogramming Bioelectricity, Updating “Software” for Anti-Aging, Treating Cancer Without Drugs, Cognition of Cells, and Much More (#849) appeared first on The Blog of A…
2025 was the year of the agent. The goalposts for AGI shifted; we stopped asking AI to merely "talk" and demanded that it "ac...
The proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to a familiar path instead of an ambitious polar orbit
Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich areas and potentially limiting broader scientific exploratio…
Ashaaz Ansari is pursuing an MComp in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, UK. He shares with us how studying began to feel less like an obligation and more like a hobby. He further adds how he is gaining hands-on experience.
Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and matter, researchers have built simulations that closely ma…
With a storage capacity of 36 petabytes, a DNA-based cassette tape can hold every song every recorded, and it could be on the market within five years
A traditional card deck happens to dodge a tricky poker paradox. Other poker variants aren’t so lucky
You can't park there, mate An enterprising engineer has turned an old parking meter into a jukebox using a Pi Zero 2 and some open source code.…
But who is paying to keep the lights on? Bork!Bork!Bork! Sometimes technology is made of sterner stuff than we give credit for, such as this ATM, which has clung on to life – and power – despite the indignities heaped upon it.…<!--#include virtual='/data_cent…
AI is now able to generate images of faces that many people mistake for real photographs, but new research suggests that five minutes of training can improve detection. [Read More]
Why the EPA’s air pollution rule change could make the air dirtier, how cancer survival hit a record-high, and what we know about the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station
A dive into how scientists are trying to understand what consciousness is and where it comes from
Will brain science deliver answers about consciousness or hit another wall?
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Early AI on microcomputers focused heavily on "expert systems," tools to capture domain-specific knowledge and democratize it amongst the plebians. In a supreme act of hubris, I'm going to use that same technology to turn a C64 into a rain prediction "expert.…
If your New Year’s resolution is to understand quantum computing this year, take a cue from a 9-year-old podcaster talking to some of the biggest minds in the field, says quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
In the 1990s, Game of Thrones mastermind George R. R. Martin wrote a pilot for a sci-fi series that was like Sliders meets Stargate.
Taken together, the three-year comparison shows that while 2023 and 2024 delivered stable outcomes with strong recruiter participation, 2025 clearly stood out in terms of placement percentage, highest domestic CTC and consistency across branches.
Distant cloud data centers are too slow for the kinds of tasks where AI could be truly useful.
Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture
An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies. Is this the tool we need to effectively prosecute the world’s biggest carbon emitters?