Microsoft is building a team dedicated to eliminating “every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” which might touch Windows 11. While C powers the bulk of the Windows kernel and low-level ...

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they manipulate to function, which can stop calculations dead in their tracks. But ...

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. Owen Collumb, a Cybathlon race pilot who has been ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained with Uno Platform. The news that the .NET UI framework Uno Platform project ...

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A website announces, "Free celebrity wallpaper!" You browse the images. There's Selena Gomez, Rihanna and Timothée Chalamet — but you settle on Taylor Swift. Her hair is doing that wind-machine thing ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

While ASUS officially says it launched a series, in reality there’s only two models announced, both featuring the same GPU: RTX 5080 (in stock and overclocked forms). Aesthetically, the proportions ...

After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed ...

A pandemic-era program aimed to facilitate hotel and office to affordable housing conversions. After a slow start, and numerous financing and design challenges, its first project is opening in Queens.

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