When television is good, there's nothing better. But it's mired by homogeneity, sameness, consumerism, and violence. really ...

The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without ...

Becoming a U.S. citizen is a lengthy process. Dozens of people were stopped from doing the final step on Dec. 9 in Indianapolis. See all the steps they had completed.

World Computer Literacy Day promotes digital literacy globally. Started by NIIT in 2001 to educate women and children. Celebrated on December 2 to bridge the digital divide. World Computer Literacy ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

At the end of 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and opened up an easy-to-access interface to large language models (LLMs) for the first time. The uptake was stratospheric. Since the explosive launch, ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations just after midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1 as Congress and the White House remain deadlocked on reaching a funding deal, setting off what could be a ...

The Declaration of Independence was as much economic as political, resisting the mercantilist system favored by the British. That same year, Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations,” providing ...

The ongoing advancement in quantum computing is raising urgent questions about the long-term security of Bitcoin (BTC). Unlike classical machines, quantum computers can solve certain problems ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...