The project, called AudioNoise, appeared on Torvalds' GitHub earlier this month. Written primarily in C, the program explores digital audio effects and signal processing. It grew ...
Ralph Wigum keeps coding work moving by reading prior outputs, ideal for greenfield specs and batch cleanup, giving steady, ...
And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...
My computer coding education ended in a high school classroom in the early 2000s, when I created a game in which two camels spit at one another. The experience of typing every line of code was ...
Microsoft now pays security researchers for finding critical vulnerabilities in any of its online services, regardless of whether the code was written by Microsoft or a third party. This policy shift ...
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.
For quantum computers to change the game of computation, scientists need to show that the machines’ calculations are correct. Now, there’s hope. Google’s Willow quantum chip has achieved verifiable ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new statewide program aims to help Hawaii residents become more internet savvy. Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke announced the launch of the state’s Digital Navigator program on ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
When the U.S. Congress passed the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act in August 1990, it honored a young man who had acquired HIV from a blood transfusion five years earlier ...
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 ...
Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...