The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

TL;DR: Visual Studio Pro is only $15 through November 20. A good IDE can make complex coding projects a whole lot easier. Visual Studio Pro is a popular choice for professional and hobby developers, ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

They were supposed to be on a break. Filmmaker Christian Yamane and his producers were working on a film and agreed to take a step back from that project for about a month. “But I didn’t really feel ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

After the beginning of the year, Gmail will automatically change to its Standard view. Some visually impaired users prefer the Basic view. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

Learn three quick and visual pen tricks that require no special props and only a bit of practice. From vanishes to transformations, these illusions show how everyday objects can create moments of real ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...