Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

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A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

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Nothing makes you feel old like being bamboozled by slang. Even the chapter titles of Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How social media is transforming the future of language have this effect. “Sticking Out ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...