In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice ...

An explainer on how pseudo-random number generators shape outcomes in online games and why digital chance is not truly random.

When Brendan Bond first started working with the Tucson Police Department’s deflection program in 2018, he said about one in 10 individuals he offered substance misuse treatment to accepted it. Now, ...

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and ...

Highs Friday will vary and range from the upper 60s to the middle 80s.

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

With global demand for entry-level developers, analysts, and tech-enabled professionals continuing to rise, beginners are ...

Katharine Jarmul keynotes on common myths around privacy and security in AI and explores what the realities are, covering design patterns that help build more secure, more private AI systems.

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any ...

Infographic: Major power outage events in 2025 reveal a broad spectrum of reliability risks—from voltage instability and protection failures to extreme weather and heat-related transmission stress.

Highs Thursday will range from the low 70s to the low 80s.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...