When Siddhartha Jayanti sat down to write the first computer science paper in Telugu, an Indian language with approximately 100 million speakers, he realized he first had to solve a problem that had ...

If someone asks you how to do something on your computer, how do you respond? There are in fact many ways to show people how to perform a task, and this edition of Smart Mode gives you my favorites.

This article shows how to build AI-powered desktop automation in Windows 11 using AI agents with practical examples for automating everyday tasks.

However you make a digital computer, you need something to represent a binary digit. Usually this is some form of switch: a ...

Neurotechnology is advancing, and California companies, lawmakers and unions are jockeying to shape how the resulting data can be used.

Bitcoin's mining and ledger are built on SHA-256, a hash function that quantum computers cannot efficiently break. That means nobody, not even someone with a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, ...

How much influence do algorithms really have over the way we think about politics? In this conversation, David Pakman joins Gavin Newsom to discuss how social media platforms shape what people see ...

There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would ...

In theoretical computer science, the key to cracking tough problems is finding the right tools. Most researchers gravitate toward tools that match the problems they hope to solve, and some devote ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human opponents.

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...