Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt has clarified that his comments about eliminating C and C++ were about a research project on ...

UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX operating system in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming ...

Key changes make GPUs easier to program, more efficient, and harder for rivals to replace. New features enhance AI development, further locking developers into Nvidia's ecosystem. Nvidia ( NVDA) had ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Few TV shows mastered the art of whiplash like The Big C. One minute, Cathy Jamison is burning a couch or skinny-dipping and then in the next, she’s hiding Stage IV melanoma from her husband. Laura ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.

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 ...

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 ...

The linguistic relativity hypothesis is one of the most hotly debated theories in psychology. According to this theory, the specifics of the language that you speak can shape how you think, in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- President Donald Trump is preparing to take over Washington D.C.’s police force, citing the city’s crime rates. The president’s takeover and his stated motivation have led some ...

The chart President Donald Trump displayed during an Aug. 11 news conference included 2023 data for Washington, D.C. homicides. Since then, the district’s homicide rate has fallen considerably. The ...

What are the most contentious C-suite debates? Depends on whom you ask. Only 29% of CEOs — the least of any C-suite role — identify tech investment as a leading debate topic, compared to 40% of all ...