Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know ItIn the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Mar 12 26March 12, 2026Article at New York Times
The Untold Story of the NFT BoomTo hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. “It’s at 40.7 ETH,” FEWOCiOUS gasped. “That’s crazy.” It was not quite 4 in the afternoon, and Victor Langlois, an 18-year-old cryptoartist,… May 12 21May 12, 2021Article at New York Times
The Minecraft GenerationAn 11-year-old in dark horn-rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities. He recently read “The Maze Runner,” a sci-fi thriller in which… Apr 14 16April 14, 2016Article at New York Times
Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age?Pim Koeslag designs and fabricates some of the world’s most complicated mechanical timepieces. Especially ambitious is his Grand Tourbillon Minute Repeater, created for Ateliers deMonaco, a watch company he helped start. When I visited his bright,… Jun 03 15June 03, 2015Article at New York Times
The Secret History of Women in CodingAs a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s, Mary Allen Wilkes had no plans to become a software pioneer — she dreamed of being a litigator. One day in junior high in 1950, though, her geography teacher surprised her with a comment: “Mary Allen, when you… Feb 13 19February 13, 2019Article at New York Times
Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics DepartmentIn the center of the lab, CHIMP stretched out one huge arm, then gracefully unfurled its three metal fingers, as if about to beckon someone. On its head, two rapidly rotating laser scanners enabled it to monitor its surroundings, but the engineers… Sep 11 15September 11, 2015Article at New York Times
May A.I. Help You?Two years ago, Alison Darcy built a robot to help out the depressed. As a clinical research psychologist at Stanford University, she knew that one powerful way to help people suffering from depression or anxiety is cognitive behavioral therapy, or… Nov 14 18November 14, 2018Article at New York Times
What If Working From Home Goes on … Forever?To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Josh Harcus sells robots for a living. Robotic vacuum cleaners, to be specific — a model called the Whiz, which his employer, SoftBank Robotics… Jun 10 20June 10, 2020Article at New York Times
Can Video Games Fend Off Mental Decline?“You just crashed a little bit,” Adam Gazzaley said. It was true: I’d slammed my rocket-powered surfboard into an icy riverbank. This was at Gazzaley’s San Francisco lab, in a nook cluttered with multicolored skullcaps and wires that hooked up to an… Oct 23 14October 23, 2014Article at New York Times
What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?“Toured the Burj in this U.A.E. city. They say it’s the tallest tower in the world; looked over the ledge and lost my lunch.” This is the quintessential sort of clue you hear on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” It’s witty (the clue’s category is… Jun 16 10June 16, 2010Article at New York Times
Brave New World of Digital IntimacyOn Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt. Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard two years earlier, and the site quickly amassed… Sep 05 08September 05, 2008Article at New York Times
The Pen That Never ForgetsIn the spring, Cincia Dervishaj was struggling with a take-home math quiz. It was testing her knowledge of exponential notation — translating numbers like “3.87 x 10²” into a regular form. Dervishaj is a 13-year-old student at St. John’s Lutheran… Sep 17 10September 17, 2010Article at New York Times
The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural ChinaBLOCKCHAIN CHICKEN FARM And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside By Xiaowei Wang Raising free-range chickens isn’t easy, a Chinese farmer named Jiang tells Xiaowei Wang in a fascinating new book, “Blockchain Chicken Farm.” Why? “Chickens… Oct 15 20October 15, 2020Article at New York Times
Why Skeleton Racing Is So Brutal on the BodyThe spectacle of human bodies on an ice track, hurtling headfirst at speeds of up to 90 m.p.h., can make skeleton unsettling enough merely to watch. For the athletes, it’s even more extreme. Each of the three phases of a run comes with its own… Feb 01 18February 01, 2018Article at New York Times
Are Your Friends Making You Fat?EILEEN BELLOLI KEEPS very good track of her friends. Belloli, who is 74, was born in Framingham, Mass., which is where she met her future husband, Joseph, when they were both toddlers. (“I tripped her and made her cry,” recalls Joseph, a laconic and… Sep 10 09September 10, 2009Article at New York Times
Pagan Kennedy’s ‘Inventology’ and Adam Grant’s ‘Originals’Back in the ’70s, Scott Burnham was a technician working for a company that made guitar cables and accessories. While soldering parts one day, he accidentally attached the wrong resistor to a circuit board. It was a fortunate error, because the… Feb 19 16February 19, 2016Article at New York Times
Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?Is Iran going to build a bomb? Many people wonder, but Bruce Bueno de Mesquita claims to have the answer. Bueno de Mesquita is one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists. A professor at New York University and a senior fellow at the… Aug 12 09August 12, 2009Article at New York Times
Googling Yourself Takes on a Whole New MeaningHere’s what you see if you look at my face: a skinny titanium headband stretched across my forehead. It looks like a futuristic pair of sunglasses, minus the lenses. On my right-hand side there’s a computer, a metal frame with a small, clear cube of… Aug 30 13August 30, 2013Article at New York Times
A Green Coal Baron?When I met with Jim Rogers one day this spring, he tossed back two double espressos in a single hour. A charming and natty 60-year-old, Rogers is the chief executive of the electric company Duke Energy. But he has none of the macho, cowboy stolidity… Jun 22 08June 22, 2008Article at New York Times
The Making of an X Box WarriorIt was only a virtual Baghdad, baking under a virtual sun. As in real life, though, troops were dodging gunfire. I was at the Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina Del Rey, Calif., playing a new X box video game called Full Spectrum Warrior.… Aug 22 04August 22, 2004Article at New York Times
