Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Last year we worked with a couple, I'll call them Mark and Lisa. Both in their late 50's, Mark was running a consulting business and Lisa was working in healthcare. Their daughter was 35, renting in ...

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...

UC Berkeley programs across different departments were ranked top in the country in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Graduate School Rankings. The U.S. News & World Report annually publishes ...

A story has been going around about artificial intelligence for the past decade: At some point, AI advances, robots and self-driving cars will throw countless people out of work. The rich folks who ...

The University of Illinois’ Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment (SEAQUE) is a compelling success story in the global race to develop quantum communication networks in space. The ...

The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

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Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, originally from Southeast Asia and introduced through the pet trade. The non-venomous constrictors disrupt the ecosystem by preying on native ...

Q: I'm the executor of my wife's estate. She died some time ago in Texas, and she left a significant part of her estate to her three children. One of the children was estranged from her and has ...