A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do. Scientists studied a bonobo named Kanzi who was raised in captivity and became a whiz at communicating with humans using ...

Laylah Rivers had already been a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and worked at various tech companies across the West Coast.

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

For the 15th consecutive year, Bates has been recognized as a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Student awards. For at least 151 years, a hemlock and its close neighbor, a red oak, have grown up together ...

At CES, what stood out to me was just how much Nvidia and AMD focused on a systems approach, which may be the most ...