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The AI boom has college majors of all types dabbling in computer science

August 03, 2026 The AI boom has college majors of all types dabbling in computer science BY Associated Press With no background in coding, Faith Maeba, a psychology major, was reluctant when her mother first suggested she enroll in classes on artificial intelligence. But the senior at Virginia Commonwealth University began to see it differently as … Continue reading The AI boom has college majors of all types dabbling in computer science →

Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac

Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac It comes with a pretty slick interface. By Igor Bonifacic April 16, 2026 4:20   Perplexity Perplexity has just released Personal Computer. The software, which is available starting today for Mac, builds on the multi-model orchestration capabilities the company debuted with Perplexity Computer at the end of … Continue reading Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac →

Someone programmed a 65-year old computer to play Boards of Canada’s ‘Olson’

Someone programmed a 65-year old computer to play Boards of Canada’s ‘Olson’ Tracks have to be manually fed into the PDP-1 via paper tape. Ian Carlos Campbell Thu, October 9, 2025 The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world’s first video games, but as the … Continue reading Someone programmed a 65-year old computer to play Boards of Canada’s ‘Olson’ →

Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say

  By Clint Rainey January 18, 2024 You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for … Continue reading Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say →

Computer scientists have predicted whether your startup will fail based on your personality

  By Clint Rainey October 19, 2023 Ask business experts what qualities they believe successful startup founders possess, and there’s a number and metric for everybody: It’s three personality traits and four types of founders, or it’s the Big Five traits, or maybe six successful traits, or it’s seven, with seven personality types—on up to … Continue reading Computer scientists have predicted whether your startup will fail based on your personality →

Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline

Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2023 Microsoft on Tuesday reported revenue declines from its Windows Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Operations and from Xbox content and online services. The company earned an adjusted $2.32 a share on sales of $52.7 billion in the … Continue reading Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline →

Tecate Bids 2020 Good Riddance, Uses Computer Vision To Do It

Tecate Bids 2020 Good Riddance, Uses Computer Vision To Do It by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, December 31, 2020 Heineken’s Mexican beer label Tecate will release a music video on New Year’s Eve that some might interpret as a metaphor for saying good riddance to 2020. In the Spanish-language music video for his latest hit, ‘Pa’ … Continue reading Tecate Bids 2020 Good Riddance, Uses Computer Vision To Do It →

Blippar To Use Computer Vision To Improve Location Targeting

Blippar To Use Computer Vision To Improve Location Targeting by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 4, 2017 Engineers at augmented reality startup Blippar believe they have developed technology to improve marketing and ad campaigns by helping to determine peoples’ location — and the direction they are facing — relative to stores around them. The company, which … Continue reading Blippar To Use Computer Vision To Improve Location Targeting →