As we look back from the vantage point of late December, the story around AI has shifted from wonder and dread to something ...

Informal classes over WhatsApp and Facebook groups are helping freelancers and business owners learn basic AI skills.

Christmas fell on a warm day. Strangers expressed surprise and alarm. Then old man winter came back. I love the low light at this time of year, and it is even lower at 38 degrees north than at my ...

First, a big applause for me: my quick note on the US bombing of Nigeria generated my highest traffic on Substack .

The beloved kids television show is adapting to the age of streaming—and AI. In the world of the long-running kids show Cyberchase, Motherboard, a sort of digital queen and literal technocrat, is the ...

As December 31st, 1999, was ticking away its last minutes, some engineers practically glued themselves to monitors. By then, ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better ...

As a tech explorer and author of the Wonder Tools newsletter, I’ve tested more than 200 Ed Tech services this year in search ...

When we think of the 1970s, we probably remember a time of shag carpets, wood-paneled station wagons, and rotary phones. But ...

How can you take a holistic look at computing, from the top down? Computer science is the answer. As the trend toward globalization connects people in every part of the world, digital networks and ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common approach being to build a physical manifestation of a portable code virtual ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...