Marisa Shuman’s computer science class at the Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx began as usual on a recent January morning.Just after 11:30, energetic 11th and 12th graders bounded […]
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Back to news homeChatGPT and Other Chat Bots Are a ‘Code Red’ for Google Search
As the technology advances, industry experts believe, Google must decide whether it will overhaul its search engine and make a full-fledged chat bot the face of its flagship service.Google has […]
SoftBank Reports $23 Billion Loss as Tech Investments Plummet
The past two years have sent Mr. Son on a new roller coaster ride. The pandemic initially drove SoftBank’s investments in big-name tech companies into the ground, sent them soaring, […]
In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer
Some location data analytics companies, including Foursquare, recently announced that they were restricting the use, sharing and sale of data on consumers’ visits to sensitive locations like reproductive health clinics. […]
Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers
In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack.Linpack offered a way to run complex mathematics on […]
Why This Silicon Valley Prophet Says He’s Still an Optimist
In 2005, Mr. Jobs gave a commencement address at Stanford, cited Mr. Brand as a major influence in his life and explained what “Whole Earth” was to a younger generation: […]
Moderna and U.S. at Odds Over Vaccine Patent Rights
WASHINGTON — Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are in a bitter dispute over who deserves credit for inventing the central component of the company’s powerful coronavirus vaccine, a […]
Articles Involving Chinese DNA Research Are Retracted
Two respected scientific journals have retracted two articles that relied on the DNA samples of Uyghurs in western China after questions were raised about whether the subjects had provided their […]
Japan Needs More Tech Workers. Can It Find a Place for Women?
TOKYO — If Anna Matsumoto had listened to her teachers, she would have kept her inquisitive mind to herself — asking questions, they told her, interrupted class. And when, at […]
The Nuro EC-1
Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on wheels” — and let it ferry […]