If someone asks you how to do something on your computer, how do you respond? There are in fact many ways to show people how to perform a task, and this edition of Smart Mode gives you my favorites.

The North American Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing (NACDC 2026) concluded on August 12, 2026, after three days of deliberations at the University of British ...

The word used to describe a pile of stuff. Now it has to do with a mechanistic pursuit of perfection. By Nitsuh Abebe The 20th century was different from today in many, many ways, but let’s focus for ...

A giant lopes through crooked, medieval streets and onto Prague ghetto rooftops, where he hurls a man to his death and sets buildings afire. Below, terrified people point upward, faces packed together ...

For decades, Mozilla has been one of the strongest advocates for an open internet. Today, as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to how businesses and governments operate, the ...

Scientists have crossed an important line in biological engineering. In a recent study, researchers used artificial intelligence to design complete sets of genetic instructions for bacteriophages, ...