On the off chance you are new to this series, you can quickly catch up with the rest of us by perusing and pondering our earlier columns (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, ...

Jemimah Widdicombe works for the National Communication Museum (NCM) as Senior Curator. When we post to a group chat or talk to an AI chatbot, we don’t think about how these technologies came to be.

Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect — but where you do, at the very least, get to “vibe code,” or use an AI model to write code and even build entire ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

The Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture will include data transport and missile warning and tracking satellites. (Northrop Grumman) In a series of trials this summer, ...

Frontline workers, as well as many other non-wired employees, often depend on their managers for company communications. The manager cascade is the recognized default in most companies, because it ...

The brand new true-crime documentary The Serial Killer’s Apprentice premieres on Investigation Discovery Sunday, Aug. 17 at 9/8c. The documentary follows Dr. Katherine Ramsland, an American ...

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs. Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue ...

A floor plan is a bird’s-eye view (like looking straight down from above) of your home. It shows how rooms are laid out, where walls are located, and where doors and windows are placed. — If your home ...

Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the not-yet-titled relaunch of the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas ...

AI has taken the programming world by storm, with a flurry of speculation about the tech replacing human coders, and Google’s CEO recently claiming that 25 percent of the company’s code is now ...