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 ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

And yet, my feeds on X and Threads are full of people mad about losing their Gold status. I think it’s fair to say that if you introduce something that is tangibly better for your customers, and they ...

Starbucks is revamping its loyalty program and one of the new twists is that you can keep your rewards stars from expiring. The revamped program will launch on March 10 with three free membership ...

*Houston, we have a problem. Rashad Richey, a prominent host on The Young Turks (TYT) network, is under intense scrutiny after viral exposés accuse him of fabricating much of his academic and ...

Scrolling through our feeds and getting our daily dose of laughs may feel effortless, but the behind-the-scenes work that makes it all possible definitely isn't. All the thinking, coding, and ...

On Tuesday, Nvidia announced it will begin taking orders for the DGX Spark, a $4,000 desktop AI computer that wraps one petaflop of computing performance and 128GB of unified memory into a form factor ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Computer science involves much more than writing code. It blends technical knowledge —like programming, algorithms and data systems — with soft skills, such as communication and problem-solving.