You don't need your phone to open a QR code. You probably already know how to scan a QR code with your phone. It's simple enough: just open the camera app, point your phone at the code, and tap the ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Any resistance the young people in your life may have to learning basic computer science will effectively melt on Monday, when Microsoft and the non-profit group Code.org release a ...

Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. There are many kinds of software, including operating systems, applications, and malware. Software can be distributed ...

From CDK Global LLC v. Brnovich, decided last week by Judge Grant Murray Snow (D. Ariz.): Plaintiffs CDK Global LLC and Reynolds and Reynolds Company … develop, own, and operate proprietary computer ...

Despite being nearly 14 billion years ago, we’re surprisingly will-informed about the state of the early universe (or at least think we are). Now, new and better multidisciplinary research in nuclear ...

Midway through its first episode, Alex Garland’s Devs launched a mystery that was so intense, it made coder Sergei literally lose his lunch. Welcomed into the Devs division’s super-secret, ...

While AI is changing coding, Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton argues that computer science degrees still remain valuable ...

Doom Eternal is a modern game with an old-school heart. Behind the over-the-top gameplay and beautifully rendered viscera, it still calls back to the first-person thrill of the original series. And ...

Cody Wilson with 3-D printer gun plans in Austin on May 4, 2015. Wilson is engaged in a legal fight to distribute plans for printing 3-D weapons. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times) Cody Wilson ...

Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...