The novelist Jane Smiley has written an interesting and informative book called The Man Who Invented the Computer, which is marred chiefly by its title. Smiley herself clearly has mixed feelings about ...

Science journalist Anne Saker describes the Chandrasekhar Limit as a range of possibility where if a planet has enough stability in its magnetic force and its gravitational force, it can sustain life.

Computer scientist David Magerman, a veteran of Renaissance Technologies, argues that AI doomsday predictions are overblown hype. He asserts that current LLM-based AI solutions are largely in failing ...

A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

Computer pioneer Willis Ware saw the future, and it worried him. In 1966, Dr. Ware, who worked as an engineer at Rand Corp. in California, foresaw not only the omnipresence of personal computers but ...

Joshua Schulte, 35, who transmitted classified information to WikiLeaks, also faced child pornography charges. Before his sentencing, he complained about his treatment in jail. By Colin Moynihan ...

The 13th Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology is now open for voting, giving readers an opportunity to express who they feel should be given the top spot. Originally ...

I just did a few searched on google and couldn't come up with anything satisfactory, so I thought I'd ask you people in the "real world". <BR><BR>Question number 1: Anyone have an idea if there is a ...