You don't need fancy hardware to get started on your coding journey. A low-spec computer will likely be more than you need to ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

One of the most important breakthroughs in computing was the stored-program concept, proposed by John von Neumann and colleagues in 1945 in the design of the EDVAC computer. The idea was simple but ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

(WBFF) — Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced the launch of a Guaranteed Basic Income program alongside the Community Action Council of Howard County (CAC). The program will see 20 families ...

Universal or guaranteed basic income programs are gaining momentum across the country, as local governments and nonprofits experiment with the bold new alternative to traditional welfare models.

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...