O n Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular ...

An online firewall might keep your computer safe from viruses and other unauthorized access, but the original firewall back in the 1500s was far more literal: the Oxford English Dictionary has ...

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

A University of Utah research team's rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

Microsoft has announced a new small language model called Fara-7B, which can be used to perform agentic tasks directly on the user’s device. Termed as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) model, Fara-7B uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...