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For years, drone racing has been the ultimate test of human reflexes.

It’s just past 10 PM at a farmers’ market in Shenzhen.

Across the world, teachers and parents are dealing with the same modern headache of smartphones glowing in the classroom.

We’ve all heard the promise for years that someday soon, you’ll be able to hop in your car, kick back with a coffee, and let the vehicle handle your morning commute.

Are Robotaxis Actually Safer?

The future of autonomous driving in Europe has just taken a massive leap forward.

London’s busy and iconic streets are getting a major technological upgrade today.

I recently had the opportunity to travel from Spain to attend The Fifth International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’26).

I have been online long enough to remember when “the internet” and “the web” were different things, and when the web was genuinely a web.

Why AI didn’t make programming easier, and what that means for anyone learning it now.

I keep thinking about a fairly minor legal case from a couple of years back.

Writing this from Lisbon with INFOCOMP 2026 winding toward its close tomorrow.

Have you ever clicked the back button on your browser and ended up somewhere completely unexpected?

A Life That Shaped Computer Science Earlier this month, the computing world lost one of its true giants.

McKinsey & Company – one of the most prestigious and well-resourced consulting firms on the planet – had its flagship AI platform, Lilli, comprehensively compromised.

How a Simple Idea Reshaped Software Development In 2013, Solomon Hykes took the stage at PyCon and introduced Docker to the world with a deceptively simple pitch: “Shipping code to the server is hard.”