When television is good, there's nothing better. But it's mired by homogeneity, sameness, consumerism, and violence. really ...

The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without ...

World Computer Literacy Day promotes digital literacy globally. Started by NIIT in 2001 to educate women and children. Celebrated on December 2 to bridge the digital divide. World Computer Literacy ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations just after midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1 as Congress and the White House remain deadlocked on reaching a funding deal, setting off what could be a ...

The Declaration of Independence was as much economic as political, resisting the mercantilist system favored by the British. That same year, Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations,” providing ...

After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

The annual Vintage Computer Festival kicks off Friday on the Peninsula. The event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View shows visitors the technology that launched Silicon Valley. The ...