From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

The keyboard is one of the most important devices of your computer, allowing you to give commands for the different operations you want to perform. Most keyboards these days come with 104 alphanumeric ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

In a nutshell: JavaScript is about to become a matter of legal proceedings between competing parties. Oracle claims ownership of the trademark, but the company will now have to defend its questionable ...

Over-reliance on JavaScript creates a blind spot for AI search crawlers. AI search crawlers reportedly can't read JavaScript, limiting your site's visibility. Server-side rendering and HTML-first ...

Open AI’s CEO says we won’t need new hardware or lots more training data to get there. A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview into clearer focus.

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. To review: JavaScript is what makes static web pages “dynamic.” Without it, the ...