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Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Ever since being admittedly fascinated by the Cambridge ...

Picture a quantum computer. Are you imagining an ordinary computer, but somehow just better? If so, that would be a mistake, because quantum computers are fundamentally different. They rely on exotic ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Ananya Palivela about recent advances in quantum computing. Ananya and Craig talk about the results of ...

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 ...

Apple has reportedly discontinued the Mac Pro, a desktop computer commonly used by musicians, video editors, and photographers. The computer was priced at $6,999, but it has become outdated in the ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When home computers first showed up, we did not trust them. They were loud, beige, expensive, and they absolutely felt like they ...

The question of whether you should turn your PC off every time you're done using it or if it is okay to leave it running all the time has often been debated – with varying answers of many degrees over ...

Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...