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Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and minifigures. It was unexpected and delightful to see Lego come ...

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...

Being a consumer has been challenging over the past few years. Between a global pandemic and sweeping tariffs, wallets have taken repeated hits — but for PC hobbyists right now, it might actually be ...

AI Dev, DeepLearning.ai's AI conference, made its NYC debut. We sat down with Andrew Ng at the event to talk AI and developers. Ng recommends that everyone learn to code. The second annual AI Dev, a ...

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

Computer engineering encompasses all areas of research, development, design and operation of computer systems and their components, including both hardware and software. From designing the next ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...