Try describing a shade of green you saw on a jacket yesterday. Or the shape of a lamp you liked in a bookstore. Words often fall short. But an image? It says it all. That's the promise of visual ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

You are a visual communicator. I know this because I am, and because we all are. Before we learn to speak, we communicate visually—marking surfaces with crayons and paints, making sense of the world ...

Designers, developers and art directors from The Washington Post’s Design, Graphics and Opinions teams worked on more than 500 visual stories in 2024, covering topics from the U.S. election, AI and ...

As I walked past a Japanese tea shop in New York's Bowery Market, all I had to do was point my iPhone at the storefront and hold a button on the side of my phone to see its hours, photos from ...

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I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

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Bottom line: Recent advancements in AI systems have significantly improved their ability to recognize and analyze complex images. However, a new paper reveals that many state-of-the-art visual ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...