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 ...

Tech workers are increasingly worried that the artificial intelligence they are building will replace them. But some are optimistic that it is just one more tool to work with.

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

Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I've been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count. All I know for sure is that I programmed the ...

Creating your own programs might seem daunting. It’s a lot easier than you think.

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Anthropic has released a new AI tool, Cowork, that allows users to collaborate with the AI model Claude directly in their computer files. Not just via text chat. The tool is based on the same ...

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

A new cyber threat called ClickFix is reportedly spreading rapidly online, using fake emails, websites and search results to trick users into pasting a single line of code that instantly infects their ...