The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...

The Chinese language, Mandarin, has officially been included as one of the foreign languages to be taught in senior secondary schools across Nigeria, following a recent review of the national ...

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Quantum computers are powerful, but a practical quantum machine that’s useful for everyday tasks remains elusive. In fact, proponents of quantum computing say it could be another 10 years before there ...

Kati Weis is a Murrow Award-winning reporter for CBS News based in New Orleans, covering the Southeast. She previously worked as an investigative reporter at CBS News Colorado in their Denver newsroom ...

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Chat to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for paying Microsoft 365 business customers. Copilot Chat (short for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat) is the company's ...

Two teenagers, believed to be linked to the August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, have been arrested in the United Kingdom. Believed to be members of the notorious Scattered Spider hacking ...

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ESPN's computer model, the Football Power Index, has released new Top 25 rankings following Saturday's games. Week 4 of the 2025 college football season is in the books. The fourth week of the 2025 ...

Remote Desktop is a software in Windows that allows you to connect to a computer that is not close by. When you try to connect to a remote computer by using Remote ...