Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human ...

Steve Jobs sold his car to raise enough money to build Apple’s first computer. Just one year later, the tech titan reeled in ...

Now we are beginning to outsource something far more consequential: not memory, not route-finding, not scheduling, but thought itself. Or, more precisely, the labor of forming a judgment before ...

Since her freshman year, Sheila Robledo ’26 of Alton, Texas, has spent a lot of time in Bates’ Student Center for Belonging and Community. “It’s just one of my favorite places on campus, to be honest, ...

Labeling a college applicant “first generation” has long been a way to identify students who may need extra support navigating college life. But new research from Common App suggests that binary first ...

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

AI has consumed/claimed the supply of silicon and magnetic storage for the next two or three years. Severe shortages of critical components will lead to massive disruption in a wide swath of products, ...

When you think about a new generation taking center stage, you generally think they’re going to be smarter than those who came before them. After all, they have the advantage of greater scientific and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a room-sized machine built ...

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Growing up in an immigrant family, my parents often said, “We never had it this good.” “We make so many sacrifices for you.” I believed them; I could literally see their sacrifices with my own eyes: ...