Every job has its quirks. But some feel almost like a world of their own. Like programming—we (indirectly) interact with it every day, yet many of us know surprisingly little when it comes to what ...

Leah Solivan built Taskrabbit from a recession-era idea into one of the companies that helped define the gig economy. Then she sold it to Ikea in what she describes as a tearful, unanimous board vote.

Super Micro Computer (SMCI) shares have plunged this month amid news that three people associated with the company, including co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, were facing federal charges of ...

BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, signaled a shift in how large investors view crypto, pointing to artificial intelligence (AI) as a more meaningful driver than the expansion of ...

Anthropic is trialling a feature that lets users send prompts to Claude from a smartphone. Claude will complete the task on its own on a person's computer. Anthropic's product underscores its push ...

There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search, documents, and meetings. All of them want to capture context ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

What consumes 1,000,000 gallons of water a day, never sleeps and uses more electricity than a battleship? A data center. Data centers power our DVRs, Email, Clouds, run our Apps, ChatGPT, other AI ...

With the pace quickening in the quest to enable intelligent robots designed to work safely and effectively alongside humans across industrial, service and other environments, Neura Robotics has ...

Worthy of both classic Lego and classic Mac. Worthy of both classic Lego and classic Mac. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...