Blackstone CTO says entry-level engineers are more talented — but have fewer opportunities to learn on the job

John Stecher says software engineering has become more popular, but there are fewer mentorship opportunities for entry-level ...

Virtual National Science Foundation internships aren’t just a pandemic stopgap – they can open up opportunities for more STEM students

Students who participated in the virtual Research Experience for Undergraduates at Purdue reported stronger gains in research ...

Error-correction technology to turn quantum computing into real-world power

Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward ...

When is it time to jump? The boiling frog problem of AI use in physics education

Generative AI is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Large language models like ChatGPT can help answer questions, write ...
Network World

Everything you need to know about FLOPs

A FLOP is a single floating‑point operation, meaning one arithmetic calculation (add, subtract, multiply, or divide) on ...
MIT Technology Review

A quantum leap for programming

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...
PCMag

Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 Level-Up Explained: 6x More Frames, More Detailed Graphics

Nvidia's biggest gaming reveal at CES 2026 was DLSS 4.5, an update for RTX GPUs that can boost frames rendered by six times ...

How generative AI accelerates identity attacks against Active Directory

Generative AI is accelerating password attacks against Active Directory, making credential abuse faster and more effective.
Carnegie Mellon University

Teaching a Robot To Hang a T-shirt Starts With Data

For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the ...