A computer science team believes they have discovered a previously unknown sketch of King Henry VIII's second wife - but not everyone is convinced.
Amjad Masad said that young people who are not deeply interested in computer science should not study it.
Multiple theses, coding marathons, joining research labs — this is life inside China's top AI training ground.
Vivienne Hnin switched from pre-med to computer science in her junior year and shares her five strategies for securing an AI summer internship.
University of Washington computer science professor Dan Grossman said "we haven't come anywhere close to the limit" of what computers can do.
"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofi…
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Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation software. It was created in 2005—and likely deployed by the US or an ally.
Even astronauts need to level up their laptops once in a while - including the crew of Expedition 74 on board the ISS, which NASA announced last week is in the process of some computer upgrades. In a statement to The Verge, NASA spokesperson Joshua Finch conf…
It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z. Like with many…
The Typeframe PS-85 is a cyberdeck crafted by Jeff Merrick, inspired by Epson portable computers and the design language of 1979 science fiction-horror classic Alien. In the movie, the MU/TH/UR computer had its own room; here's a terminal to ask it desperate …
Sally A. McKee, 61, a renowned computer science professor and beloved friend, passed away Feb. 12 in Greenville, S.C., after a short illness. She received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University,…
Photos of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter posted online by President Donald Trump appear to match the LinkedIn profile of Cole Allen.
Meta is making another push toward robotics with its acquisition of Assured Robot Intelligence, a small San Diego-based startup.
AI forecast models offer some clear benefits over traditional physical models, but they are ill-equipped to handle the increasing volatility of a warming climate.
The company behind Claude is looking to hire a human who is ready to travel and lead a lot of face-to-face conversations.
Two years ago, Josephine Timperman arrived at college with a plan. “Everyone has a fear that entry-level jobs will be taken by AI,” said the 20-year-old at ...
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, Nanoleaf has launched just a handful of smart lighting product…
The 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California sent an alleged message to family members saying that he wanted to target administration officials
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's testimony dominated the fifth day of the trial for Elon Musk's lawsuit against the AI company. Brockman took the witness stand on Monday, disclosing that his stake in OpenAI is worth nearly $30 billion, despite not personally …
Wharton professor and AI expert Ethan Mollick says good taste and a sense of style are key skills to develop in the AI era.
New graduate school rankings show where Texas universities landed nationally and which programs made the biggest impression this year.
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Researchers have shown that blending quantum computing with AI can dramatically improve predictions of complex, chaotic systems. By letting a quantum computer identify hidden patterns in data, the AI becomes more accurate and stable over time. The method outp…
The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.
New data shows why college students cluster into the same majors and how to make smarter career decisions in a rapidly evolving job market.
Some colleges and universities are introducing three-year bachelor’s degree programs.
Nature - Autonomous closed-loop framework for reproducible perovskite solar cells
New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code.
Parents should tell their kids to prioritize storytelling skills in the AI era, Scott Galloway told Steven Bartlett on "The Diary of a CEO."
Some engineers say that AI's rapid transformation of the industry serves as a microcosm for what's to come.
No, really.
For those of us with an interest in hacking and making, events where we can meet up with like minded folks and check out the projects they’re working on don’t exactly happen every day. …
If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a founda…
Die Suche nach Außerirdischen konzentriert sich bislang auf individuelle Exoplaneten. Nun schlägt ein Team vor, nach Mustern bei deren Verteilung zu fahnden.
Jensen Huang went from washing dishes at Denny's to building the world’s most valuable company—now he says the field he studied in college will be critical...
State-of-the-industry report finds that, despite the limitations of artificial-intelligence systems, researchers have embraced them.
Amazon's Project Houdini aims to accelerate AWS data center builds using modular construction, reducing labor hours and speeding up deployment.
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Today, I’m talking with Jennifer Scanlon, who is the CEO of UL Solutions. That’s Underwriters Laboratories – you know, the UL logo listed on all your electronics? That symbol means it’s been tested and found safe in a variety of ways. UL’s been around for 100…
Peking University gives its computer science students a compiler project every semester. Build a complete SysY compiler in Rust including lexer, parser, abstract syntax tree, IR code generation, assembly backend, performance optimization. The whole thing. Stu…
In the 1860s Jevons built a Logical Abacus, sometimes called a logical piano, a kind of early computer that could perform (some kinds of) logical operations faster than humans could. It is held in the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University, and…
Kathryn Bigelow's hauntingly realistic VR dystopia doubles as a Y2K time capsule.
Interest in longevity medicine has exploded in recent years. Here's who's at the forefront of longevity science, investment, and medicine.
Warming waters are pushing the dreaded flesh-eating bacteria up the Atlantic coast. Experts explain who's at risk and how worried you really need to be.
China-based researchers make up more than half of all lead authors at NeurIPS.
"As always happens with contradictions, something in the assumptions has to give... Declaring something impossible leads to more things being possible."
We’re not holding our breath.
In one famous episode of The Simpsons, Homer finds a counterexample to Fermat’s last theorem
Here's a breakdown of the different sections of the USS Enterprise's bridge and what each of them does in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
An attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday has, again, highlighted the climate of political violence in the U.S. But there are still many questions about the motive.
Andon Labs let an AI loose with $100,000 to start a small store in San Francisco.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman was questioned about his wealth, an email he sent to Yahoo's then-CEO, Marissa Mayer, and the company's IPO plans.
Not too long ago, the internet was a place you visited. The family desktop sat in its designated closet or back office. In schools, there were rooms filled with computers blinking in tandem, waiting for your class to arrive and hop online. You had to purposef…
Charles Yang spent 10 years building startups in China, then 10 in the US. Here's what he learned about the two systems.
Brian Pulliam applied for a job at Zillow with the goal to work toward becoming a group manager. When he reached that level, the role was retired.
I wanted to see how many minutes it would take to build a cute app on Lovable, with functions my friends and I could use to solve scheduling problems.
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A new kind of memory device may finally solve the problem of overheating and battery drain in electronics. By shrinking components to an extreme scale and redesigning their structure, researchers found a way to reduce energy loss instead of increasing it. The…
Deep inside planets like Uranus and Neptune, scientists may have uncovered a bizarre new state of matter where atoms behave in unexpected ways. Advanced simulations suggest that carbon and hydrogen, under crushing pressures and scorching temperatures, can for…
What NASA’s Curiosity Rover found on Mars, how youth suicides dropped after the launch of the 988 crisis line, and what people think of AI voice clones
Monkeys with around 300 electrodes implanted in their brain were able to steer avatars around different virtual environments
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
It involves 4chan, of all places.
Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher outline a creative thinking strategy to liberate you from the daily grind of the lab.
Tools for reliably estimating what artificial intelligence is being used for are still lacking.
For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists. But new research suggests otherwise
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook world markets last year, launched preview versions of its latest major update Friday as the...
Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun said repeated job apocalypse warnings are making high school students depressed.
“He who controls the data center, really does control the application of artificial intelligence right now.”
New findings foretell a looming catastrophe that would drastically alter the planet’s weather and climate.
“You may call it a revolution. It is the best high-temperature memory ever demonstrated.”
An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.
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World-renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End) once quipped that “Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer should be.” Some people think Clarke’s statement means we should replace all teachers.Continue Rea…
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published i…
Many factors can shape your relationship with subjects at school. For example, did you get a teacher you couldn’t connect with, or a pro who could make even the most boring topic exciting? What about your friends—were they distracting you from homework or, on…
The SciFy program tests whether adversaries’ most outlandish scientific claims add up or fall apart
AI-powered personas are becoming so realistic that they can infiltrate online communities and subtly steer public opinion. Unlike traditional bots, they adapt, coordinate, and refine their messaging at a massive scale, creating a false sense of consensus. Ear…
Das MIT hat eine rund 40 Jahre alte Technik verfeinert, um flexible Objekte in einen starren Zustand zu überführen. Der Y-Zipper kommt aus dem 3D-Drucker.
The prompt injection is coming from inside the house
PhD students share how they make their doctorate fit into the hours of a standard working week. Plus, male and female brain cells differ in gene activity and a whole new way to produce DNA.
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order it to perform,” Ada Lovelace inveighed upon composing the world’s first algorithm for the world’s first computer. Meanwhile, she was recko…
Players who preorder at least the $80 edition of the game can try out a short beta demo of the upcoming action RPG, due out next year.
At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory
Mathematician Terence Tao discusses the role of AI in his field, we consider the search for a science of acupuncture and we discover that mitochondria can spawn new ‘organelles’ — hinting at how modern cells evolved.
AI investment is skyrocketing while AI’s impact on jobs and public perception remains mixed
The 2026 hurricane season could see 12 to 15 named storms and 6 to 9 hurricanes, researchers forecast.
What does great training for computing teachers look like? High-quality professional development (PD) is one of the most effective ways to improve your students’ outcomes, and participating in PD is a core part of being a teacher. By changing and refining you…
Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real ones. These flexible, low-cost devices generate lifelike electrical signals cap…
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Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between simple body movement and brain health: every time you tighten your abdominal muscles—even slightly—your brain may gently sway inside your skull. This subtle motion, triggered by pressure changes in connected…
The Logitech MX Vertical is $45 off at Amazon and remains the ergonomic mouse I rely on for long workdays. Its vertical design keeps your wrist in a natural position, which makes a noticeable difference if you deal with stiffness or strain.
A major obstacle may be standing in the way of the next generation of ultra-tiny computer chips. Researchers discovered that many promising 2D materials lose their advantages because an invisible atomic-scale gap forms when they are combined with insulating l…
Der weltgrößte Autozulieferer Bosch steckt in der Krise. Nun präsentiert der Hersteller einen Autopiloten mit KI-Software, der das Fahren revolutionieren soll. Losgehen soll es in China, in ein paar Jahren aber auch in Deutschland.
Pay attention to the quiet ones Interviewed by Hansen Hsu on 2023-09-20 in Mountain View, CA Serlet joined Xerox PARC’s Computer Science Laboratory in 1984, working in the Cedar/Mesa programming language and development environment, still creating design tool…
A new chip design from UC San Diego could make data centers far more energy-efficient by rethinking how power is converted for GPUs. By combining vibrating piezoelectric components with a clever circuit layout, the system overcomes limitations of traditional …
A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far humanoid robots have come—and how far they haven’t
From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Her," these movies predicted the emergence of seemingly sentient chatbots.