Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, ...

It’s early evening on any given day. Amy grabs her phone and checks if there are new messages. Almost a half-hour later, Amy has checked her device eight times. An hour has passed. Amy has checked her ...

You may underestimate how frequently you look at your device, and you may be paying a price with more attention and memory lapses. For many of us, checking our phones has probably become an ...

Cloud-based developer tools such as Jupyter Notebook and Selenium Grid are constantly under attack, warns Max Heinemeyer, global field chief information security officer (CISO) at cyber security ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

A median of 28% of adults across 24 countries say they are online almost constantly. An additional 40% say they use the internet several times a day, while 9% do not use it at all, according to a Pew ...

In this post, we will show you how to open Computer Management on a Windows 11/10 PC. Computer Management is a powerful application that allows you to access a variety of administrative tools from a ...

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational ...

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs. Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...