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Pokémon turns 30 this year. To celebrate, developer Game Freak should merge the many piecemeal changes from the Switch era ...

What's cool is that a lot of software we rely on daily can run completely without a GUI.When an app runs headless, it ...

A divided federal appeals court ruled that the University of Washington violated a computer science professor’s First ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

I don’t know about you, but I love the holidays. The decorations, the hot cocoa, the snuggling under a fuzzy blanket with my Kindle. Yes, the holidays are great—save for the absolute madness of ...

You open your inbox and see a message titled “Payment order settled” with an official-looking invoice from Geek Squad. At first glance, it looks legitimate. It includes your email address and even a ...

A capable map app will save you time (and your sanity), but which one is best at dodging all the holiday season traffic? I ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

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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 ...