In February 2025, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding.” Vibe coding refers to using AI to assist ...

There's more to the story than the alphabet.

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code. Biologists and chemists have a new ...

Before transistors and microchips, engineers had limited options for building computing machines. Light bulbs, known as vacuum tubes, were the only components fast and reliable enough to perform ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

The MCM/70 microcomputer. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons / MCM Model 70 microcomputer (1974), CC BY-SA 4.0. While many of my past columns have highlighted computers built in this country, some ...

The first time I used a computer, the only thing I could get it to do was generate syntax errors. A “syntax error” is what you get when the code you’ve written contains errors that are uninterpretable ...

The Hallmark Channel is already decking the halls, rolling out its annual lineup of Christmas-themed movies even earlier this year. Their annual slate of Christmas programming started Friday, a full ...

The Hallmark Channel is forcing us to consider the question, how soon is too soon to start the holiday season? LEILA FADEL, HOST: Their annual slate of Christmas programming started Friday, a full two ...