A new kind of date makes personal to-do lists a reason to get together with friends

Life tasks like paying bills, canceling subscriptions and answering overdue emails are becoming a reason to socialize for ...

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could ...
AppleInsider

Personal Computer from Perplexity can make a Mac an always-on AI operator

After a slow roll-out Perplexity's Personal Computer feature is more widely available to let users make a persistent agent that can access files, apps, and tasks across a user's Mac. The release ...
The Washington Post

The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Students create better ways to communicate science

In a program with Northglenn High School students, Institute for Behavioral Genetics researchers ask for creative and innovative ideas on how to talk about science With all due respect to the ...
CNET

Claude Can Now Run Tasks on Your Behalf With New 'Computer Use' Feature

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
CBSSports.com

College basketball rankings: Michigan finishes No. 1 in AP Top 25 for first time since 1977

The final AP Top 25 poll of the 2025-26 college basketball season was released Tuesday. To no surprise, Michigan finished the season at No. 1 after completing one of the most dominant NCAA Tournament ...
CoinDesk

Startup lets researchers mine blockchain tasks on a quantum computer for the first time

Most of the crypto industry spent this week processing Google's paper on how quantum computers could break blockchain encryption. One startup is asking a different question — whether quantum hardware ...
Inc

Taskrabbit’s Founder Says the Next Generation of Tech Leaders Should Study This Instead of Computer Science

Leah Solivan built Taskrabbit from a recession-era idea into one of the companies that helped define the gig economy. Then she sold it to Ikea in what she describes as a tearful, unanimous board vote.
WRIC

Vance holds first meeting of a new anti-fraud task force targeting benefit programs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Friday held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he’s leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it’s cracking down on potential ...
Fast Company

Manus AI cleaned up my computer—for a price

With help from AI, I finally tackled some computer chores that I’ve been putting off for months. My Downloads folder is cleaner than it’s been in ages. The photos that OneDrive blandly sorted by month ...