As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

Transportation and buildings account for a massive share of global emissions, but cities have practical tools to fight back. From Bus Rapid Transit and urban growth boundaries to California's Title 24 ...

Question: Are QR codes really dangerous and if so, what should I be looking for? Answer: QR codes have become so woven into everyday life that most people scan them without a second thought; ...

The already-small number of colleges with full-fledged, student-enforced honor codes is dwindling. After a three-year pilot of proctored exams, Stanford University student, faculty and administrative ...

Florida holds an annual 10-day Python Challenge to control the invasive Burmese python population. Participants compete for prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for removing the most pythons. The ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into ...

Bank security can feel confusing because every account seems to handle it differently. One bank sends a text. Another sends an email. Another asks you to approve a login inside its app. So when ...

The dog that ushered me into the technological future was “low and thick.” That’s all my mother registered before it T-boned her in a city park earlier this year: dense, heavy, and traveling fast ...

Older adults and technology haven't always had the smoothest relationship. From learning to use email to operating smartphones, each new wave has brought fresh challenges and frustrations. Now, ...

Every good narrative needs an inciting incident – something to kick-start the protagonist into action. For freelance health journalist David Cox, it arrived in the form of a health scare, which he ...