Wired

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Think This Space Object Could Be From a Dead Civilization

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object Arjuna 2025 PN7 was thought to be a meteorite in an Earthlike orbit, but that is now being questioned. The new hypothesis suggests that 2025 ...
Futurism

Nine Reasons This Scientist Is Suspicious the Object Screaming Past the Sun Is a City-Sized Alien Spacecraft

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has argued at length that 3I/ATLAS — the third-ever interstellar object ever detected, currently screaming through the solar system at incredible speed — could be an ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
New York Post

Manhattan-sized space object 3I/ATLAS has grown a tail — a possible sign of alien ‘maneuver’: Harvard scientist

New images reveal the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has started to sport a tail, indicating that it could possibly be a “maneuvering” alien craft, one Harvard scientist suggested. After ...
Futurism

Astronomer Suspects Mysterious Object Is Up to No Good While It’s Hidden Behind the Sun: “If You Want to Take a Vacation, Take It Before Then”

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to reach its perihelion, or the closest point to the Sun in its highly eccentric path through our solar system, on October 29. Earlier this week, it reached ...
Wired

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...
Biometric Companies

OCR Studio unveils multi-level ID verification with NFC support for smartphones

OCR Studio has launched a new mobile identity verification solution that combines document scanning with full electronic passport NFC-chip reading. It is supposed to offer governments and financial ...
SiliconANGLE

Stanford study finds AI has reduced availability of entry-level programming jobs

A new Stanford University study suggests that the number of entry-level programming jobs in the U.S. has declined significantly since the launch of ChatGPT. The paper was published today by three ...
CBS News

Harvard scientist believes interstellar comet could be alien craft: "We should put all possibilities on the table"

Scientists are watching a newly discovered object in space, and most of them agree it's a comet, but not all of them. A Harvard scientist, who believes he's seen proof of alien life before, suspects ...
New York Post

Rare interstellar object the size of Manhattan could be an alien probe: Harvard scientists

It’s probe-ably nothing. The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to ...