Harvard Business Review

Quantum Computing for Business Leaders

Will the reality live up to the hype? by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and William D. Oliver In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it ...
Bleeping Computer

Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...
PNAS

Correction for Eames et al., Computer-assisted learning in the real world: How Khan Academy influences student math learning

The authors note that their competing interest statement was incomplete. The authors also declare the following: “E.B. and P.O. served on the informal Khan Academy research advisory committee from ...
BBC

Singer and YouTuber who makes music with Furbys and Game Boys picked for UK at Eurovision

Look Mum No Computer holds the Guinness World Record for building the world's largest drone synthesizer Electronic music artist and tech creator Look Mum No Computer has been chosen to represent the ...
CNN

Phones might get pricier next year. Thank the AI boom

Fancy cameras, giant screens and massive storage usually make smartphones more expensive. But next year, it’s a routine component that might be boosting prices: memory. And it’s not just phones. Any ...
Ars Technica

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in an attempt to infect the devices of developers who rely on code libraries ...
Wired

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

It took a while for people to adjust to the idea of chatbots that seem to have minds of their own. The next leap into the unknown may involve trusting artificial intelligence to take over our ...
Futurism

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In recent years, ...
9to5Mac

iPad cellular is a major advantage over Macs, still to this day

Every time a new iPad Pro is announced, Apple’s enthusiasm over how powerful its most advanced tablet is provokes a certain level of public cynicism. Not because Apple’s claims are disputed. But ...
Forbes

Clemson To Offer M.S. In Computer Science Via Coursera; No Application Required

Clemson University will partner with Coursera Coursera to offer a fully online Master of Science in Computer Science degree. The announcement was made in a blog release by Marni Baker Stein, chief ...
Popular Science

ChatGPT’s accuracy has gotten worse, study shows

The LLM's ability to generate computer code got worse in a matter of months, according to Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers. By Andrew Paul Published Jul 19, 2023 6:00 PM EDT Add Popular Science ...