Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

You just had to get lucky and hope that the document ID that you were looking at contains what you’re looking for,” said Igel ...

ABI and scripting to the Wasm Component Model (WASI Preview 2). He shares how to build secure plugin systems that run at near ...

I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

Abstract: ChatGPT can promptly reformulate a text and improve its quality in content and form while preserving the original meaning. Yet, little is known about how learners respond to such ...

For someone who is not a professional swimmer, I spend an awful lot of time under water. I consider it an act of mobile meditation: Sensory input is muffled, so the chaos of the surface world ...

Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. By integrating ...

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping. Marchers in Charlotte, North Carolina, protest the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good, on ...

First published in the spring of 1994, two months before the birth of Amazon and one month after the death of Kurt Cobain, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott has far outlasted the era of its origin, becoming ...

In the first long-term and real-world reflective study of its kind, scientists have uncovered new detrimental health impacts of the artificial sweetener aspartame that echoes those found in shorter ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...