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Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Open-source OCR from Baidu eliminates the GPU memory wall that limits long-document parsing. Unlimited OCR uses a constant KV ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

This piece is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the quest to develop these machines here and their most promising applications here. Around the world researchers are ...

Leveraging optical character recognition (OCR), layout detection, content extraction, and component-based scoring, this study offers an automated pipeline for evaluating handwritten programming and ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

On February 13, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced its civil enforcement program to implement the updates to the Substance Use ...

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 ...

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...