Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted

Handing over the tasks once done by human developers comes with some major risks.

Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) • conversation
March 17, 2025 • ~6 min

When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?

US patent law says inventors must be human, but they can use AI. This changes the nature of invention and raises the question: Is this what the founders had in mind when they set up the patent system?

W. Keith Robinson, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University • conversation
March 14, 2025 • ~8 min

How Did a Man’s Brain Turn to Glass 2000 Years Ago?
VOA Learning English • voa
March 13, 2025 • ~6 min

Discovery Provides New Details on Early Use of Bone Tools
VOA Learning English • voa
March 13, 2025 • ~4 min

Private Moon Missions Include Hits and Misses
VOA Learning English • voa
March 13, 2025 • ~5 min

Researchers Use New Methods to Date Ancient Skeleton
VOA Learning English • voa
March 13, 2025 • ~3 min

Japan’s Nissan Tests Driverless Technology on Busy City Streets
VOA Learning English • voa
March 13, 2025 • ~5 min

High-performance computing, with much less code

The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers.

Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAIL • mit
March 13, 2025 • ~5 min

Pupils shed light on the brain during sleep

A look under the eyelids reveal that more happens in the brain during sleep than was previously assumed, researchers report.

ETH Zurich • futurity
March 13, 2025 • ~7 min

Methods for Protecting Earth against an Asteroid Strike
VOA Learning English • voa
March 12, 2025 • ~5 min

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