Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits. By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Kashmir Hill Julia Sheffield, a psychologist who ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated cuOpt engine discovers new solutions for four MIPLIB benchmark problems, outperforming CPU solvers with 22% lower objective gaps. NVIDIA's cuOpt optimization engine has found ...

A new report compiled by the University of Colorado's Colorado River Research Group warns that threats to the river's water supply are now so severe that they pose a significant risk to the water ...

Having a smartphone may be harmful for children younger than 12, according to a new study. The study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics found that owning a smartphone during ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

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While there was no way HBO’s adaptation of The Last Of Us would ever be as incredible as the Naughty Dog game upon which it’s based, Season 1 did a pretty remarkable job nonetheless. It was a mostly ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...