If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful ...

Nushu emerged from the isolated villages of southern China and is the only language created and used exclusively by women. Today it is celebrated across China as a symbol of female empowerment, but ...

Tools for translating natural language into code promise natural, open-ended interaction with databases, web APIs, and other software systems. However, this promise is complicated by the diversity and ...

Abstract: JXPL is a new functional scripting language that uses XML syntax. JXPL is intended to be a workflow language that easily interacts with web and grid services. There are built in web and grid ...

Kotlin is a modern language that has seen a groundswell of developer enthusiasm over the last few years. This popularity is thanks in large part to its highly expressive syntax, which includes ...

Spoilers follow for Alien: Earth. One of the most controversial – or thrilling, depending on how you look at it – aspects of FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth is that, for the first time on film, at least… ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are recasting the relationship between humans & technology. There’s a complete transition in how we search, consume, and execute information on the web. LLMs are no longer ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...