Microsoft today launched its new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project. You can download Chromium Edge now for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS directly from microsoft.com/edge in more than 90 languages. From a report: Business features aside, there’s also support for Chrome-based extensions, 4K streaming, Dolby audio, inking in PDF, and privacy tools. For the…
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How Is Computer Programming Different Today Than 20 Years Ago?
This week a former engineer for the Microsoft Windows Core OS Division shared an insightful (and very entertaining) list with “some changes I have noticed over the last 20 years” in the computer programming world. Some excerpts: – Some programming concepts that were mostly theoretical 20 years ago have since made it to mainstream including many functional programming paradigms like immutability,…
‘Top Programming Skills’ List Shows Employers Want SQL
Former Slashdot contributor Nick Kolakowski is now a senior editor at Dice Insights, where he’s just published a list of the top programming skills employers were looking for during the last 30 days. If you’re a software developer on the hunt for a new gig (or you’re merely curious about what programming skills employers are looking for these days), one thing…
2019’s Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says TIOBE
Which programming language saw the biggest jump on TIOBE’s index of language popularity over the last year? Unlike last year — it’s not Python. An anonymous reader quotes TIOBE.com: It is good old language C that wins the award this time with an yearly increase of 2.4%… The major drivers behind this trend are the Internet of Things (IoT) and the…
Twenty years of discoveries changing story of human evolution
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/archaeological-discoveries-changing-story-of-human-evolution…
Google Assistant Passes 500 Million Users
One day after Amazon announced that it has populated the world with over 100 million Alexa-powered devices, Google decided to take the opportunity to tout some of its numbers. At CES 2020 on Tuesday, the company said that the Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users. VentureBeat reports of the new features coming to the digital assistant…
Newyddion gwych! Maths predicts that Welsh language is set to thrive
The Welsh language, spoken by around half a million people today, is expected to “thrive in the long term”, based on a model looking at how proficiency in languages changes over time Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229237-newyddion-gwych-maths-predicts-that-welsh-language-is-set-to-thrive/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The State of JavaScript 2019
Over 20,000 developers have shared what are their favorite JavaScript features, front-end frameworks and back-end frameworks in a new annual survey. The figures come from the fourth State of JavaScript survey, which included responses from 21,717 developers around the world. On the flavors front — languages that compile to JavaScript — most developers were satisfied with Microsoft-backed open-source JavaScript superset, TypeScript,…
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94
Cade Metz from The New York Times pays tribute to Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer. Brooker died on Nov. 20 at the age of 94. From the report: Mr. Brooker had been immersed in early computer research at the University of Cambridge when one day, on his way…
Google Assistant Can Now Interpret 44 Languages on Smartphones
Kyle Wiggers, writing for VentureBeat: In January during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Google debuted interpreter mode, a real-time translation feature for Google Home speakers and third-party smart displays like those from JBL, Sony, LG, and Lenovo. The tech giant said at the time that interpreter mode would eventually come to mobile devices, but it didn’t set a…