The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

Legalization of recreational marijuana by many states has made it easier for teens to get access to highly potent and convenient forms of the drug, creating new hazards for teen health. New research ...

Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly ...

Automatic backups are essential for safeguarding your data from hardware failures, ransomware attacks, and accidental deletions. By setting up scheduled backups, you ensure files, applications, and ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

From Polar Vortex to Bomb Cyclone, weather buzzwords are popping up more often on social media. Chief Meteorologist David Young and Meteorologist Cole Engle break down the science behind several of ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

You can also turn off Precise Location unless an app truly needs it. Most apps work just fine with your approximate location. If you want to keep other people from opening a particular app on your ...