An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

AI improves renewable energy forecasting accuracy by up to 33%, helping grid operators better integrate solar and wind resources. Predictive maintenance powered by AI reduces equipment downtime by ...

What started off more than five years ago as one-off bans in individual classrooms grew into statewide efforts to curb student cellphone use during school. Now, the idea of limiting children’s tech ...

The new TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC has been created, and a new US-based algorithm will be put into place, which leave users with the choice to stick around or find an alternative. On December 18, ...

The vast majority of Americans engage with some kind of social media. Some of it is wonderful, some is terrible and it's definitely habit forming. On this episode, we talk about how social media ...

TL;DR: Elon Musk announced that X, formerly Twitter, will launch a new open-source algorithm within seven days, revealing the code behind content recommendations for organic and advertising posts.

My grandfather grew up in Franklin County, Va., a small farming region deep in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. As a child, he did his schoolwork by firelight and passed long days plowing ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

In early August, OpenAI unveiled the GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT with a bold plan — GPT-5 would replace all previous models and automatically decide when to reason and when to use specific tools, though ...