In the days prior to the internet, enthusiastic young hackers relied on floppy disks to trade their innovative programs. Bulletin board systems emerged as the first virtual communities, enabling ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about ...

Meet the young Granite Stater who designed a video game controller with one goal in mind--making sure everyone gets a turn.

Python stays far ahead after another dip; C holds second, Java retakes third from C++, and R rises to eighth as SQL slips, with Delphi steady in tenth. May’s TIOBE Index has one of those charts that ...

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Abstract: In this paper we present CodeCraft, an educational video game we are developing to teach the fundamentals of computer programming. Similar to other educational tools such as Scratch, Alice, ...

A Texas judge was caught on camera tearing into an IT worker who came to help him with a simple computer glitch inside his own courtroom. A viral video shows Harris County Judge Nathan Milliron losing ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Anthropic’s Claude is launching a wild new tool that lets you ask AI on your phone to remotely control your computer to execute tasks. A new feature in Claude Cowork and Claude Code will allow the AI ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...