Margaret Hamilton — a titan of computer science — has died aged 90. She is best known for her work in developing the software for NASA’s Apollo project, which landed the first humans on the Moon.

That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

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Anthropic just rolled out a genuinely useful update. Computer use in Claude Cowork and Claude Code now lets Claude work in the background on your Mac, meaning it clicks, types, and opens apps while ...

While computer use isn’t new for Claude on the desktop, running it in the background is a nice upgrade. Anthropic shared today that background computer use is available for Claude Code, only on macOS, ...

The MLB trade deadline may have passed, but we’re still seeing big moves in the budding sport of AI for science. Today’s news: The legendary coder Jeff Dean is leaving Google. His new team: Discovery ...

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design. Dean said that the ...

Google veterans leaving to launch Discovery Loop, from left: Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean, and Quoc Le. (Discovery Loop Photo) Speaking in June at the University of Washington Allen ...

Larry Mitchell never thought much about the dreams he wasn’t having. For years, while he regularly smoked cannabis, his dreams seemed to disappear. Then, last summer, he quit. Soon afterward, his ...

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science. By Christopher Flavelle and Sheryl ...

Awardees will test, scale and demonstrate new methods and tools that advance automated science and engineering for discovery and translation The U.S. National Science Foundation announced an inaugural ...