For years, the default job goal for computer science majors in college was a high-paying role at Google, Meta or another tech ...

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Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and cloud models. Perplexity Computer is the company’s agentic system for ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google’s Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term “scientist in the loop,” ...

Jiuzhang 4.0, China’s latest photonic quantum computer, is staking a claim to quantum supremacy. The photonic supercomputer completed a complex calculation in microseconds, which the world’s fastest ...

AI agents built to run everyday computer tasks have a serious context problem, according to new research from UC Riverside. These systems can open apps, click buttons, fill out forms, move through ...

Early in the 20th century, physicists were faced with deep questions about what the strange new mathematical framework of the dawning quantum age revealed about the true nature of reality. After ...

From a scientific point of view, a cup of coffee is a conundrum. More than a thousand molecules contribute to the flavor, influenced by the beans, the level of roasting, the grinding technique and, ...

Quantum computers might eventually be able to handle some AI applications that currently require huge amounts of conventional computing power. Such a development would be a major boost to machine ...