Technology

Electrons are great. We use them to move vehicles, illuminate cities, and, of course, compute. But computation is not confined to the world of electronics. And shifting to alternative nonelectronic realms can unlock unique advantages: Photonic chips, for instance,...

Microbes based on mirror images of molecules in the natural world would have a hard time surviving outside the...

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.8, and while the benchmark improvements are quite real, the most meaningful change for everyday users is something far simpler. You can now tell Claude how hard to think before it responds to your query....

My first exposure to bitcoin was unglamorous. It was the early 2010s, and I heard about it through the...

In a neuro-robotics lab at the University of Southern California, a small mechanical hand heard a melody for the first time and played it back in a single attempt, without any sheet music, pre-loaded scores, or weeks of supervised...

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a "Dynamic Workflows" research preview...

On an April evening last year, 54-year-old Micky Small headed to the beach for a sunset date with a fellow Los Angeles-based writer named Aven.But her date never showed. "I was flipping out," she said....

If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job?This is the pitch being made by Zhou Yong, the 40-year-old founder...

Mathematicians have never been so sought after by the world’s richest people. At universities across the world, academics are...

I have been an application-specific IC (ASIC) designer for almost three decades. Over that time, I’ve moved through the full academic trajectory, from graduate student to full professor; later, I transitioned to industry after an unsuccessful stint at entrepreneurship....