If you've ever wanted to create your own computer program but never learnt how to code, you might try "vibe coding". Collins Dictionary's word of the year - which is confusingly made up of two words - ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the ...