Google’s New AI Certification Teaches Prompts, Research, and App Building

Google introduces an AI Professional Certificate with six courses and a capstone, plus 20+ hands-on activities, and free access for small businesses.

Forget 'debloat apps.' Sophia Script gives you real control over Windows 11. Here's how it works.

The Sophia Script is an open-source PowerShell module designed to debloat and fine-tune Windows 11 (and Windows 10 ). It is ...
CNET

How to Use AI to Get Better at Solving Daily Puzzles

If you're tired of missing out on clues and have begun to suspect your vocabulary may be lacking in the face of daily puzzles, this guide is for you. Here's how to use AI to get good at daily puzzles.
Microsoft

Copilot Tasks: From Answers to Actions

Conversational chatbots were the first chapter of AI. Today is the beginning of the second. We are excited to introduce Copilot Tasks — AI that doesn’t just talk to you, but works for you. This is a ...

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models.
The Washington Post

This Maryland lab’s quantum computer could cure cancer — and steal passwords

Inside a warehouse turned laboratory in suburban Maryland, a team of theoretical physicists and engineers is racing to build a quantum processor powerful enough to surpass the most advanced computers ...
IEEE

tinySLAM: A SLAM algorithm in less than 200 lines C-language program

Abstract: This paper presents a Laser-SLAM algorithm which can be programmed in less than 200 lines C-language program. The first idea aimed to develop and implement a simple SLAM algorithm providing ...
IEEE

A Large Language Model-Assisted Reinforcement Learning Framework with Evolutionary Algorithm for Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling

Abstract: With the growing emphasis on sustainable manufacturing, green scheduling has gained prominence from practitioners and researchers in the industry manufacturing enterprises. This article ...