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The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated Story by Ed Nather Annotated by Erik Brunvand Department of Computer Science University of Utah, SLC, Utah 84112 [email protected], www.cs.utah.edu/ ~ elb Erik Brunvand Tue Oct 15 13:41:12 MDT 1996
The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated Story by Ed Nather Annotated by Erik Brunvand Department of Computer Science University of Utah, SLC, Utah 84112 [email protected], www.cs.utah.edu/ ~ elb Erik Brunvand Tue Oct 15 13:41:12 MDT 1996
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503003 What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic? "I think that is something that we, as a society, would be inte
After briefly taking down its European education stores earlier today, Apple has officially launched its 2025 Back to School promotion across the continent. Like in the U.S., this year’s offer includes a free pair of AirPods or other accessories with the purchase of a qualifying Mac or iPad through the Apple Store for Education website. Here are the details. The European Back to School deal runs through October 21 Apple has launched its 2025 Back to School promotion across Europe, offering st
🎮Game 🧩Puzzle 💣Minesweeper 🤖Algorithm 💻Game Dev Background I recently purchased and played a game called 14 Minesweeper Variants during a Steam Summer sale. It was a fun game. However, I became curious while looking at the hints provided in the game. What exactly are these? Actually, when I played Minesweeper, which was a default Windows game, I could solve cases where there was a definite answer, but I remember stepping on countless mines in ambiguous situations. For example, situations like
The American Federation of Teachers is using $23 million in funds from three tech companies to launch a program to train educators on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, the country's second-largest teachers' union announced $12.5 million from Microsoft, $10 million in funding and technical resources from OpenAI and $500,000 from Anthropic will be used for a New York-based hub to teach AI. The AFT is working in partnership with the United Federation of Teachers, a union representing New York s
On StackExchange, someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind: Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back. Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. Calling a function is like making a phone call — we ask a question and get an answer from outside ourselves. The true answer seems to be the middle one — “calling” as in “calling up, summoning” — but indi
Once upon a time, there was a university president who couldn’t send an email more than 500 miles, and the wise sysadmin said that’s not possible, so the president said come to my office, and lo and behold, the emails stopped before going 500 miles. Has technology improved? Can we send an email farther than 500 miles in 2025? There’s a lot to the story that’s obviously made up, but if we fix the details so that it can happen, we can reproduce it. connect We need some code to do a nonblocking
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini now lets you automate routine tasks with its new scheduled actions feature. You can use it to schedule prompts to perform a task at a specific time, day, date, or after an event. The feature is available in the Gemini app for users with a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription and qualifying Google Workspace business and education plans. Update, July 1, 2025 (08:22 AM ET): Google has started rolling out Scheduled Actions for Gemini across Android, iO
What just happened? Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston have performed the nation's first fully robotic heart transplant, a milestone in American medicine. Completed in March, the procedure marks a significant leap in robotic cardiac surgery and offers new hope for patients with advanced heart failure. The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to receive a heart transplant using a minimally invasiv
Another We Tested Photograph: Molly Higgins Oneisall Cordless WiFi Automatic Cat Feeder for $60: I had high hopes for this cordless feeder that boasts a rechargeable battery with a 100-day life and an integrated app, but it's just too unreliable. Through the app, you can program up to 10 daily meals (in 1-12 portions each), monitor pets' eating habits, and customize meal calls. Unlike other apps, you're not able to choose portion size, but instead have to multiply the number of servings. The a
Hi HN! We’re Adit and Raunak, co-founders of Reducto (YC W24, https://reducto.ai ). Reducto turns unstructured documents (e.g., PDFs, scans, spreadsheets) into structured data. This data can then be used for retrieval, passed into LLMs, or used elsewhere downstream. We started Reducto when we realized that so many of today’s AI applications require good quality data. Everyone knows that good inputs lead to better outputs, but 80% of the world’s data is still trapped inside of things like messy
Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26, not iOS 19. The tech giant also announced that iOS 26 will bring a transparent glass design to your iPhone's icons, menus and more. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September 2024, that update brought a feature to Messages that lets you schedule messages to send later called, simply, Send Later. The feature does what its name implies and lets you schedu
Apple’s Back to School promotion for 2025 is now available. For a limited time, eligible customers can get AirPods or another eligible accessory for free when they buy a new iPad, MacBook, or iMac. That comes in addition to the year-round discount Apple offers on items sold through the Apple Store for Education. MacBook If you buy a new MacBook, you can get an eligible accessory of your choice valued at up to $199 with your purchase: AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation ($179 value) AirP
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U.K. healthcare giant HCRG Care Group has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident after a ransomware gang claimed to have breached the company’s systems to steal troves of sensitive data. HCRG Care Group is one of the largest independent providers of community health and care services in the United Kingdom. The organization, previously known as Virgin Care and now owned by Twenty20 Capita, partners with National Health Service trusts and local authorities around the U.K. to delive
Heads up, fellow podcasters. Apple has announced some scheduled downtime for Podcasts Connect next week. The downtime is planned for next Saturday morning. Apple shared the following today: On March 1, starting at 6:00 a.m. PST, Apple Podcasts Connect will be unavailable for up to eight hours. Access to Apple Podcasts Connect and Analytics will not be available during this time. Hopefully, this scheduled maintenance improves processing speeds for members-only content on the back end. If you’v