Making a few extra dollars online should not put your bank details or identity at risk. Yet that is the concern for people who used Paidwork, an online earnings application. A leaked database tied to ...

Spinning an obscene number of plates is a skill I long took pride in. Throughout my 30s, I rebranded multitasking as ‘habit stacking’, selling it to myself as a formal productivity practice. Watching ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be set to wind down its Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offering. Named in homage to the purported chess-playing automaton from the 1700s, MTurk is a crowdsourcing marketplace ...

Browser app that visualises how JavaScript code executes step by step. Built around a custom tree-walking interpreter that produces an immutable stream of snapshots, then rendered on an interactive ...

Last fall I delivered a keynote address at a one-day conference about teaching writing in the age of AI at Iona University. As part of the conference, there were also additional talks by Iona faculty ...

Rapid acceleration of AI toward the technological singularity, driven by open-source projects like Clawdbot (also referred to as Maltbot or OpenClaw). Roth and others say we have crossed and ...

Not every side hustle is what it appears to be. You might come across some that look like simple ways to make extra money, but are actually designed to take money from you. They often use words like ...

With one sweeping gesture, Dar Sleeper hoists the humanoid robot off the ground. Bracing its back with one arm and its legs with the other, he gently carries it across the room and lowers it onto a ...

When most developers think of JavaScript, the word "single-threaded" often comes to mind. But modern JS runtimes are far more sophisticated than the old "one thread, one call stack" stereotype. From ...

Uber wants to challenge established players like Scale AI or Amazon’s Mechanical Turks. Uber wants to challenge established players like Scale AI or Amazon’s Mechanical Turks. is transportation editor ...