Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

A conservative watchdog group is adding fodder to the debate over whether the American Bar Association has become a politicized institution favoring the left. A new report released by Trump-aligned ...

Some students in Independent School District 191 are graduating with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree through a program held entirely on campus. The program is a new version of a ...

ChatGPT is getting a new music discovery trick that saves you a trip to another app. You can now use Shazam directly inside ChatGPT to identify songs playing around you without launching the Shazam ...

Meta recently hired the team of engineers behind Gizmo, a buzzy AI startup founded by ex-Snapchat staffers. A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that the team joined Meta earlier this year. The company ...

Sonos Inc. plans to simplify its iPhone and Android app in the coming months with an update that focuses on improved navigation and easier-to-use controls. But after a botched app release in 2024 ...

The Gmail mobile apps lack a handful of features found on the website, but Google is now adding the ability to create new labels on Android. Once available, open the navigation drawer for “Create ...

OpenAI has given software developers a new desktop toy, and judging by the early reactions, it might feel like someone finally handed coders the Swiss Army knife they’ve been dreaming about or the ...

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Hide icons in the settings, then shrink the space between icons. The Mac menu bar is a bit of a mess. Way too many applications want to put icons in the top-right corner of the screen, and most users ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me ...