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Microsoft has released open-source Quantum Development Kit tools for chemistry and error correction, with VS Code integration ...

Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they manipulate to function, which can stop calculations dead in their tracks. But ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Amazon Web Services has announced a new class of AI systems," frontier agents," that can work autonomously for hours, even days, without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...

Vibe coding means asking AI to code an app or webpage based on simple language prompts. The practice helps non-programmers create an app without writing a line of code. The four steps to vibe coding ...