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Make-believe companions can teach children more than just how to play pretend.

Beyond the grit and glamour of its success stories, Super 30 is a reminder of what an IIT education has done for thousands of Indians over the years.

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The Trump administration wants to disband a panel of national security advisors known as Jason, the latest U.S. crackdown on science.

Chinese vlogger caught using filter to make herself look younger upsets fans.

A viewer’s query about what Jonathan does in his photography darkroom is making the rest of the internet feel decidedly old

The suggestion that humans will soon set up bustling, long-lasting colonies on Mars is something many of us take for granted. What this lofty vision fails to appreciate, however, are the monumental—if not intractable—challenges awaiting colonists who want…

The emergence of online hyperlocal services and e-commerce firms in India has led to the creation of about 200,000 jobs for blue-collar workers who deliver items to customers, according to industry estimates. But it is also the kind of job that continues…

NUMAZU, Shizuoka Prefecture--Long obsolete and not just a museum piece, an early massive computer de

Today, we are very excited to announce xrdesktop, a new open source project sponsored by Valve, enabling interaction with traditional Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR.

For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but...

Does Math Matter? Math matters both more and less than you think…
Yes, you can ignore math and be a highly paid professional programmer. Programming is a wide enough field that you can choose …

If you have an opinion about C++, chances are you either love it for its extensiveness and versatility, or you hate it for its bloated complexity and would rather stick to alternative languages on …

Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.

Revenue rose slightly in the most recent quarter, the company said, but profits still fell as iPhone sales continued to drop.

ColorForth is a dialect of Forth that uses color as punctuation. It is a simple, colorful programming language that produces compact, efficient programs. It is also an operating system, running stand-alone on a PC. And a philosophy that leads to tested, reliable…