You probably scan QR codes without giving them a second thought—but how do those little black-and-white squares actually work? This month's Bits & Bytes explores the surprising history, clever ...

Compare the best free Microsoft Excel alternatives for 2026, including features, pricing, pros and cons, and use cases for each spreadsheet tool.

A new study shows that aggressively scaled 2D semiconductor nanoribbons can deliver higher current, sharper switching, and lower contact resistance, challenging the assumption that ultra-narrow ...

Alice & Bob Founders Theau Peronnin and Raphael Lescanne in front of a cryostat, holding a Quantum Processing Unit. alice-bob.com Alice & Bob, the Paris-based quantum startup that has spent six years ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Meet a UChicagoan, a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. In 2006, Satyajeet Salgar, MBA’07, was sitting in ...

The Santa Fe County Commission has shot down a proposal from an Agua Fría couple who wanted to subdivide their property to ensure their adult children have a place to live in their hometown. The ...

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...

Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: The company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle ...

Patients using recalled True Metrix blood glucose monitoring systems linked to one death and over 100 serious injuries should switch to an alternative testing method when possible, the FDA said on ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Since then, it has been regarded as a fundamental model in ...

The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of ...