With laptop prices up, here’s what’s actually worth paying for

Laptop prices are climbing due to rising memory costs. Here's what actually matters when choosing a screen, processor, RAM, ...
Wired

How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer

Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy. If you use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or any of the other AI ...
Indiatimes

In 1843, a 27-year-old woman wrote first-ever computer program. Mentored by Charles Babbage, her work still inspires modern technology nearly 200 years later

The Computer History Museum adds additional context: Babbage had worked on similar techniques himself, but Lovelace's notebooks contained the first written descriptions of what we now call programs.
Indiatimes

Meet Connor Hill, the 17-year-old Pennsylvania student who wrote a computer program to classify noble polyhedra; he proved there are 146 isolated examples and won $250,000

Polyhedra are three-dimensional shapes made from flat polygonal faces and straight edges. Common examples include cubes, pyramids and octahedrons.A polyhedron is called noble when it has a high level ...