A British company called Shazam is making big bucks off the mathematical analysis of music. Avery Wang, one of the company’s founders, recently met with me in a coffee shop in California to explain ...

If you’re a woman studying computer science at the University of Washington and need a place to live — for free — there’s a new option on the market for you. As a way to promote the advancement of ...

Cleaning out an old drawer, I recently unearthed a floppy disk. I blew off the dust and smiled at the little plastic square. I wondered what this disk could possibly contain. At some point, certain ...

The Austrian research group led by physicist Rainer Blatt suggests a fundamentally novel architecture for quantum computation. They have experimentally demonstrated quantum antennae, which enable the ...

John Connor was right. Bloody computers! We'd be better off without them. Especially the really slow ones that make funny whirring noises. Or the ones that come back in time to terminate you. Getting ...

If you’re a music tech nerd, guitar enthusiast, or just an inquisitive listener, you’ve probably heard of Rick Beato: the silver-haired YouTube personality is one of the most notable figures in a ...