Karim Meghji, the new president and CEO of Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org, discusses how students can move from basic AI ...

I've begun to wonder how plates came to be. Why not just bowls? Bowls work for soups, salads, for people, for cats, but plates — pretty much pizza and steaks it is. Were plates motivated by the advent ...

Open source has always had issues, but the benefits outweighed the costs/risks. AI is not merely exponentially accelerating tasks, it is disproportionately increasing risks.

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored incorrectly? Jesse Dixon, MD, Ph.D., has spent years studying the way this ...

Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.

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Code Refresh, according to the city website, is “an overhaul of an outdated zoning code to meet the needs of Richmonders today, tomorrow, and for the next generation… this means remapping every single ...

A beginner's guide to understanding cryptocurrency and why it could affect your finances, whether or not you invest in it directly.

When psychologist Darby Saxbe began studying how parenthood shapes the brain, she made a seismic discovery that upended a long-held assumption: that only mothers undergo major biological shifts after ...

Because AI coding tools are trained on vast libraries of public code, they can generate snippets governed by restrictive open ...

Incarcerated women are being made involuntary performers in a spectacle that attracts men who dehumanize them.