Opinion

Jalebis and democracy

Electoral politics is a zero-sum game, and not such a sweet deal after all  When people talk politics to me and ask whether I’m pro-govt or anti-govt, pro- opposition or anti-opposition, I ask them ...
Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...
Some efforts to slash energy costs focus on using renewable sources, or on slimming down the AI models themselves. But ...
A new malware implant called EtherRAT, deployed in a recent React2Shell attack, runs five separate Linux persistence ...
At trade association TechUK’s ninth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, ...
Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.
Recent Notepad++ releases address a vulnerability that has allowed threat actors to hijack the free source code editor’s ...
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...
As AI platforms go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding, so researchers are racing to build hardware that would use less energy.
Quantum can learn from the AI hype cycle, finding ways to manage expectations of what could be a very transformative technology. In the near- and mid-term, we need to not overplay things and be ...
This month's LCGC Blog from Jonnie Shackman from the America Chemical Society (ACS) reflects on how early experiences with computer programming shaped the author’s understanding of fundamental logic, ...