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This holiday, Microsoft wants you to talk to Copilot on Windows 11 and get ready for Christmas – Windowslatest.com
This holiday, Microsoft wants you to talk to Copilot on Windows 11 and get ready for Christmas By Mayank Parmar, December 3, 2025 Microsoft has kicked off its new ad campaign for Copilot, taglined “Meet the computer that you can talk to.” In the most recent ad, Microsoft shows a dad spending Christmas talking to…
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Will this “bionic” font help you read faster? | Literary Hub
By Jessie Gaynor, May 31, 2022, 12:10pm Focusing on a screen, whether it’s your work screen or your post-work FUN SCREEN(!), can feel like it’s draining the life force right out of you and making it impossible to focus on anything longer than 280 characters (and to be honest, some of those long Tweets are a stretch,…
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Library as Laboratory: A New Series Exploring the Computational Use of Internet Archive Collections – Internet Archive Blogs
Posted on February 9, 2022 by chrisfreeland From web archives to television news to digitized books & periodicals, dozens of projects rely on the collections available at archive.org for computational & bibliographic research across a large digital corpus. This series will feature six sessions highlighting the innovative scholars that are using Internet Archive collections, services…
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Home | Libraries Ready to Code
“The Ready to Code Collection provides resources and strategies for coding and computational thinking activities that are grounded in research, aligned with library core values, and support broadening participation.” An initiative of the American Library Association (ALA)… Source: Home | Libraries Ready to Code
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Computer Science Education Week
The Hour of Code is coming December 3-9, 2018. Computer science is foundational for every student to learn. Source: Computer Science Education Week
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When Computers Were Human – Teachable Moments | NASA/JPL Edu
In The News This week, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL was founded long before it became NASA’s premier center for robotic exploration of the solar system – and even before the agency existed. In fact, JPL started as the test-bed for some of the earliest rocketry experiments (thus the…
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Seeing the Sixties and Seventies Through 2001 and Alien
It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain that what he was seeing wasn’t just a movie but the future. When it ended, he got up and walked out into Times Square, with its peep-show glitz and sleazy, flashing advertisements; he found…
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Seeing the Sixties and Seventies Through 2001 and Alien
It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain that what he was seeing wasn’t just a movie but the future. When it ended, he got up and walked out into Times Square, with its peep-show glitz and sleazy, flashing advertisements; he found…
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Automation Makes Us Dumb – WSJ
“Artificial intelligence has arrived. Today’s computers are discerning and sharp. They can sense the environment, untangle knotty problems, make subtle judgments and learn from experience. They don’t think the way we think—they’re still as mindless as toothpicks—but they can replicate many of our most prized intellectual talents. Dazzled by our brilliant new machines, we’ve been…
