12 old-school computer accessories that used to be essential

Computers used to be a lot more complicated and bulky to use compared to nowadays. These old-school accessories were ...

Cross-Modal Data Understanding Advances Through Bukun Ren’s Review of Visual Language Models

A study on visual language models explores how shared semantic frameworks improve image–text understanding across multimodal tasks. By ...

New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging ...
ZME Science

Scientists Built a Working Computer Out of Springs That Doesn’t Use a Single Watt of Electricity

The setup of the ingenious computer that works with tension and springs. Credit: St. Olaf College It has no wires, no silicon ...

Making These 5 Changes Will Immediately Make Your Computer Run Faster

Make your computer faster by changing power settings, reducing animations, optimizing your browser, improving cooling, and ...
TechSpot

This $35,000 computer made of living human neurons can run Doom

First look: Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has crossed another boundary in biological computing. Its latest hardware platform, the CL1, uses living human neurons as the core of a fully ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Hackaday

A Breadboard Computer In Three Chips

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on a ...
TechSpot

Microsoft urges customers to prepare for VBScript deprecation in their Office VBA macros

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
TWCN Tech News

How to install or uninstall VBScript in Windows 11

If you are setting up a new PC with Windows 11 version 24H2 (2024 Update) or later, developers may not find the VBScript installed after installation, as Microsoft does not install it by default now.
IEEE

Enhancing Computer Architecture Education Through Decentralized Visual Programming and RISC-V Simulation

Abstract: Teaching computer architecture and assembly language poses significant challenges due to the complexity of underlying concepts and the technical barriers associated with traditional ...