Mike’s Tube Computer MK3 packs 460 vintage vacuum tubes into a working 8-bit machine that makes computing visible.

The numbers don’t match the story. The pessimistic narrative around computer science (CS) hinges on two main arguments: that CS graduates have recently faced elevated unemployment, and that too many ...

Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, is turning one of the most controversial episodes of his public life into a cryptocurrency. Called $LAPTOP, the ...

Cryptocurrency is digital money that works without banks approving every send. It runs on networks of computers that track balances in a public ledger called a blockchain. You buy it on exchanges, ...

I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see ...

Delta is the latest U.S. airline to introduce stripped down, luxury-class fares. What do you get for your money, and is it worth it? What you need to know. United Airlines has been offering ...

After nearly 35 years, Joe Eszterhas is back to basics with the follow-up to his 1992 erotic thriller. The Basic Instinct screenwriter, who was tapped to pen a reboot for Amazon MGM Studio’s United ...

Under one plausible theory of technological development, artificial intelligence will turn the economy into a dystopian split screen. As AI becomes capable of replacing an ever larger share of human ...

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...