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.

While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancy — a new study by Stanford computer scientists ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

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Alex Seungyong Yang plans to study computer science as an incoming college freshman this fall. He's aware that AI is replacing CS roles, but sees his degree as key to staying in AI. He thinks being ...

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...

Image of the Throne Toilet Computer perched on the side of a toilet. (Daniel Cooper for Engadget) Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer ...

Maybe it's time for finals, a big exam, a massive project, or maybe you just want a quiet place to sit down and work. The campus has several spots you can use to study or just to have some time to ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...