The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...

Three previous winners of Apple's Swift Student Challenge reveal what got them started in programming, and how they won, as the company prepares to launch the next contest. Apple has once more ...

Fawad Butt has served as chief data officer at Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, some of the largest healthcare organizations in the country. Today, he is CEO of Penguin Ai, a healthcare ...

Oct 1 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab YouTube TV and Comcast-owned (CMCSA.O), opens new tab NBCUniversal on Wednesday agreed to a short-term contract extension, averting a blackout and ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Have you signed up to participate in our upcoming event, “Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages of Taiwan,” on June 28, 2025, from 7–9 pm Taiwan time (11 am–1 pm UTC)? This is the first time ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. By Carl Zimmer If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, ...

StoryCorps said four public radio stations have joined its One Small Step initiative thanks to help from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The purpose of the initiative is to help “bridge ...