A divided federal appeals court ruled that the University of Washington violated a computer science professor’s First ...

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Meanwhile, you, dear reader, might have been on the couch, flipping through the streams and stumbling upon a new TV program where Noah Wyle plays a doctor. But wait, didn’t he already play a doctor in ...

Science is the spice that keeps things nerdy. And nerdy, as our dedicated readers know, can be tons of fun. To help you out ...

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...

A capable map app will save you time (and your sanity), but which one is best at dodging all the holiday season traffic? I ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Geek Note: Sorry readers — no Q&A this week. Just like letters or Christmas cards, you have to write ‘em to get ‘em, and ...

Layton Williams has joined the cast of Netflix’s Geek Girl as cameras roll on Season 2. The Olivier Award-winning actor, who is best known on the screen for roles in Bad Education and Everybody’s ...