Despite having a degree in computer science, he struggled to get a job and ended up moving to an island in Thailand.
Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.
The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right here.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process. [...] Canva's hiring process previously included an inte…
The New York law requires social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism, and other contentious content.
New data shows teacher recruitment and retention remains a challenge - particularly in disadvantaged areas.
The Class of 2025 is encountering the worst entry-level job market in years with unemployment among recent degree-holders aged 22 to 27 reaching 5.8% this spring -- the highest level in approximately four years and well above the national average. According t…
In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ago.
Speaking at London Tech Week, Jensen Huang said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely."
Demis Hassabis' work ranges from finding cures for diseases to making email less bothersome. Which will he achieve first?
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I have a Computer Science degree. I attended a whole course of lectures on compilers (and have a certain fondness for “the red dragon book” as a result). However, I had never actually written a compiler from start to finish until a rainy day last weekend.
In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The advancement, published in…
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the door to a whole new world of astronomical discovery
Demis Hassabis said he expects AI to be a bigger transformation than the Industrial Revolution. Here's how he thinks people can stay ahead.
How Roblox's Infrastructure Supports Record-Breaking Games
Air conditioners place a heavy burden on the grid when the weather gets hot, but this strategy shows they can actually help—and without compromising your home's temperature.
Twice rejected by Microsoft, a software engineer turned setbacks into the ultimate motivator and aced his third try.
Taalai Djumabaev spent 15 years at companies like Google and Deutsche Bank before quitting to help other IT specialists prepare for interviews.
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Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and compute…
Experience CS is a brand-new, free, integrated computer science curriculum for elementary and middle school educators and anyone working with students aged 8 to 14. A key design principle for Experience CS is that any educator can use it. You don’t need a com…
Some thoughts in defense of the often ridiculed Honeywell H316 kitchen computer.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.
Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are
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Iran's nuclear program has been dealt a blow, here's an overview of the current state of its facilities.
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A new push to end work programs for international students will drive away skilled graduates and restrict U.S. innovation.
An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists, high-profile cyber security experts, and computer science professors in Israel. "In some …
The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in rough…
Scientists have, for the first time, directly observed phonon wave dynamics within self-assembling nanomaterials unlocking the potential for customizable, reconfigurable metamaterials with applications ranging from shock absorbers to advanced computing.
An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America under a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit temperatures in places that haven't been so hot in more than a decade.
Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Take a peek into early computer vision's elegant solutions.
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Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods
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Even how matter exists in the first place is a mystery to physicists
Alte Smartphones sollen weiterverwendet werden. Forscher haben deshalb vier davon zu einem Mini-Datenzentrum umgebaut, das Umweltdaten sammelt und auswertet.
Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first workin…
EKO33 is the artistic pseudonym of Jean-Jacques Duclaux, a French generative art pioneer with roots in computer science. Since the 1990s, he has been programming art, beginning with algorithmic images created on a Commodore computer and floppy disks in 1999. …
OpenAI released the latest in its o-series of reasoning model that promises more reliable and accurate responses for enterprises.
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The job market isn't great, and that could be a factor. Recruiting officials told BI that the drivers behind recent upticks are complex.
AI coding tools like Bolt and Replit are disrupting the SaaS business model by lowering barriers to building custom software.
Hedge fund Citadel and its sister market-making firm saw a record number of applications for its 2025 intern class. Here's who made the cut.
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Defining a computable analogue of Kolmogorov complexity and Solomonoff induction over primitive recursive functions that is more practically relevant to intelligence.
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Quantum computers have been hyped as machines that can solve almost any problem. Yet it is becoming clearer that their near-term utility will be narrower
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To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish.
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Der Synchronisationsmechanismus Read-Copy-Update hilft bei bestimmten Multithreading-Anwendungen dabei, Lock-Primitive zu vermeiden.
The site includes relics illustrating a ‘vast and dynamic world.’ The post Construction workers find Viking graves linked to King ‘Bluetooth’ appeared first on Popular Science.
These furry marsupials are cryptic and hard to find. The post Secret koala population discovered near Australian city appeared first on Popular Science.
Feedback is amazed to see sperm racing touted as a new track sport, but it’s going to take a lot of CGI and other fakery to help it take off
The nonprofit iNaturalist announced that it received a $1.5-million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm to develop generative AI tools for species identification. The news didn’t go over well
The Gravastar Mars Pro V2 may look cool, but the superb sound quality might be the coolest part.
Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance China’s AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA’s by just two years, and America’s efforts to slow its progress could be hobbling its own semiconductor industry, ac…
The TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus is the first NXTPAPER 4.0 tablet to hit U.S. shores, and it gives the E Ink alternative a new boost.
Major changes hit a key CDC vaccine advisory panel, ocean acidification crosses a critical threshold, and new research reveals an unexpected threat to pangolins.
A new AI tool, AAnet, has discovered five distinct cell types within tumors, offering a deeper look into cancer's inner diversity. This insight could transform how we treat cancer, enabling more personalized therapies that tackle every type of cell in a tumor.
New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers
For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement, which was accomplished with over 80% fidelity, represents…
Web map tiles—the storing of geospatial data at different zoom levels in x/y/z indexed squares of raster (and later, vector) data for efficient
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As the first trained Black TV meteorologist, June Bacon-Bercey always worked to help women and people of color to follow in her footsteps
Some teachers are banning the use of AI in the classroom, while others are using AI themselves to design assignments that are harder to cheat.
More fiction than science Feature IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.…
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Are you a teacher who is interested in data science education for key stage 5 (age 16 to 18)? Then we invite you to join our free, in-person workshop exploring the topic, taking place in Cambridge, UK on 10 July 2025. You will be among the very first educator…
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What happens inside your brain when you hear a steady rhythm or musical tone? According to a new study, your brain doesn't just hear it -- it reorganizes itself in real time.
A research team has achieved the holy grail of quantum computing: an exponential speedup that’s unconditional. By using clever error correction and IBM’s powerful 127-qubit processors, they tackled a variation of Simon’s problem, showing quantum machines are …
Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defense
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Exploring the math behind hash collisions.
Will algorithms designed for interconnected computers hold up if some of the machines are not here on Earth but flying about in space, onboard satellites or spacecraft?