The former Google CEO said AI has beaten him at the thing he was once best at. Eric Schmidt, now 71, told Blackstone’s “Inside Blackstone” podcast that he was among the top programmers of his generation, but today’s AI coding tools are writing the code he couldn’t. “I was a very, very good programmer when
I don’t think of myself as an overprotective parent. I began letting my kids stay home alone for short stints when they were around 10. I let them wander our neighborhood alone starting when they were 11 or 12. I don’t heavily monitor their social lives or phone usage, nor do I check their grades
It’s that time of year: The weather’s finally starting to cool off, Halloween decor has taken over most of the stores, and tech companies are dropping their fall launches. Last week was Apple’s annual September iPhone event, and last night another tech launch hit the books, though this one’s a little more niche. (Though I’d
The long-awaited second generation of the Tesla Roadster might finally be ready for the public. In a post on X on Saturday, the electric vehicle company simply wrote, “Go for launch,” with a graphic showing a “10.01” date — so expect the new Roadster to be unveiled on October 1. The graphic also seems to
Hiroshimaite. Shortly before the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August, researchers revealed how the high-energy explosion created a new type of alloy that has been found in a fragment of ‘hiroshimaite’ rock, a term for fallout debris. The alloy, imaged here with a scanning electron microscope and described in Science Advances, is made from
MONTPELIER, Vt. — The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back. In Vermont, Leila Wilson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, is one of the scientists leading an effort to beat Dutch elm disease, which has killed tens
