Three US states have passed laws requiring operating systems to verify your age before you can use your computer, and Congress is considering similar legislation. Here's everything we know so far.

For the first time in about two decades, fewer American students are signing up for computer science. The long boom in the country's hottest degree has stalled, right as AI learns to write the code.

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday that seek to accelerate the U.S. quantum ecosystem with the goal of both safeguarding digital systems and capturing the benefits from ...

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The original Macintosh arrived 42 years ago. Draw a line from that event to this week, in which credible reports suggest that Apple is finally getting close to fulfilling many of the promises it made ...

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to ban consumer-grade routers made outside the US following a determination that such hardware poses an unacceptable risk to the security of ...

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Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

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