From the spot-on design of the packaging down to the perfection of the keyboard in every way, the Commodore 64 Ultimate is ...

When teams treat AI as a tool for insight rather than full automation, and keep human judgment at the center, adoption ...

Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning ...

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...

On May 1st, 1964, two Dartmouth professors by the names of John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz debuted BASIC, a revolutionary programming language credited for expanding computer literacy outside the realm ...

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 ...

A lot of us across the political spectrum, I would guess, woke up Thursday morning in a country we didn’t quite recognize, as if reality had shifted literally overnight. At the start of the week, the ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

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 ...