frontiers of computing
The Tech You Need to Level Up Your Humanity
Advancements in computing and robotics are changing how people live. Here are our favorite prosthetics, smart glasses, exoskeletons, and fitness ...
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in ...
The Best Programming Language for the End of the World
Coding in Forth reminded me of the lawless dystopia in Mad Max. You make your own rules, subject to the ...
The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it ...
RISC Architecture Really Did Change Everything
Yes. We’ve been here before. A second war of the architectures. In Hackers, a group of RISC- obsessed teens must ...
The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
The internet is massive. But does it have … actual mass? Big server farms and miles of fiber-optic cables do, ...
How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
Will AI Fully Eat Programming Jobs One Day? Almost every coder we surveyed had strong opinions on the matter. Here’s ...
Quantum Computing Is Dead. Long Live Quantum Computing!
This is the year of quantum science and technology. Literally: The United Nations said so. But no amount of pomp ...
Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes ...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, ...
