Scientists teach human cells to compute like tiny computers

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...
UC Berkeley School of Information

Berkeley Data Science Alums Build Gaze-to-Speech Communication Tool

Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) alums Katya Aukamp, Beta Desai, Nichol Flowers, and Clara Rhoades are the ...

Brain-computer interface enables independent, accurate communication for man living with ALS

A new study demonstrates that a person with severe paralysis caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can use a brain-computer interface (BCI) at home to communicate, work and interact with the ...
MIT Technology Review

It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work

Here’s how young job seekers, businesses, and society should adapt to the AI revolution. Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in ...
The Atlantic

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science

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 ...
Computer Weekly

BlackBerry doubles down on secure communications

Once synonymous with the corporate smartphone, BlackBerry has spent the past decade transforming into a supplier of software to protect confidential information and connected vehicles. Now, faced with ...
acm.org

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo era. Apollo astronauts navigated to the lunar surface using a computer with ...
Medical Xpress

Brain computer interface enables rapid communication for two people with paralysis

Loss of communication can be among the most devastating symptoms for patients with paralysis. A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University ...
Bleeping Computer

Cisco fixes Unified Communications RCE zero day exploited in attacks

Cisco has fixed a critical Unified Communications and Webex Calling remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20045, that has been actively exploited as a zero-day in attacks. Tracked ...
BGR

10 Common Programs That Are Slowing Down Your Computer

It's a common misconception that simply having more programs on your drive slows down the computer. That is a relic of the time when we used Hard Disk Drives (HDD), as more storage in use meant that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...