The people and groups behind the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, part of South Chicago’s quantum computing megadevelopment ...

Attrition in undergraduate engineering students is an issue across the country, with some researchers reporting that close to 50% of those who start college as engineering majors have switched by the ...

Charles Lieber, a convicted former Harvard scientist, has rebuilt his brain-computer interface lab in Shenzhen, China, ...

Lalise Gizaw Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program | University of Nevada, Reno ...

Long before silicon chips, a Victorian mathematician dreamed of a machine that could run any algorithm imaginable, and in ...

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Businesses love that they can use AI to replace those pesky, expensive developers. For example, Atlassian just laid off 10% of its workers, about 1,600 jobs, to throw more money into AI. Block ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...