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The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

Technology writer Matthew MacDonald began writing QuickBASIC code back in 1988 on the DOS operating system, sharing it on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. “I still remember writing code in white text on its cheery blue background…” He tells his readers on Medium that “I have a confession to make. Before I became a respectable developer working with modern curly-bracket languages like…

AI learns to gamble illogically like humans to predict our behaviour

Artificial intelligence trained on human-made gambling decisions has picked up our illogical habits,which could help machines better predict human behaviour Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207324-ai-learns-to-gamble-illogically-like-humans-to-predict-our-behaviour/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

China Has Almost Half of The World’s Supercomputers, Explores RISC-V and ARM

Slashddot reader dcblogs quote Tech Target:
Ten years ago, China had 21 systems on the Top500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing systems. It now has 219, according to the biannual listing, which was updated just this week. At its current pace of development, China may have half of the supercomputing systems on the Top500 list by 2021…. U.S. supercomputers make up…

Should Slack-Like Chat Clients Replace Email?

This week the New York Times’ Style section asked an interesting question. “Slack wants to replace email. Is that what we want?”
The company says it has 88,000 paying customers — a sliver of a sliver of the world’s desk-and-phone-bound office workers, and fewer than work full time at, for example, Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Speaking of Google, the company has a…

Bitcoin Surges Past $11K. Is It Finally Gaining Acceptance?

The price of Bitcoin surged past $11,000 today — less than 24 hours after surging past $10,000. Ars Technica points out Bitcoin’s price has tripled in less than six months, “after crashing from an all-time high around $19,500 in December 2017.” And as the price of Ethereum rose above $300 for the first time in nearly a year, Mashable writes that…

edX, ASU and MIT Announce Innovative Stackable Online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management

Collaboration creates world’s first stacked Master’s degree on edX.org from two top-ranked universities in the field Today, edX.org, the trusted platform for learning, Arizona State University (ASU), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced the launch of an online Master’s degree program in Supply Chain Management. This unique credit pathway between MIT and ASU takes a MicroMasters® program from one…

edX Announces Results Of New Survey On Reskilling Trends

Reskilling is a clear necessity for the future of work, and at edX, we are committed to helping learners gain the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the modern workplace. Today, we’re pleased to announce the results of a new survey of 1,000 consumers aged 18+ on reskilling trends, with 917 employed or previously employed respondents. Our survey found…

Why You Need to Add Digital Marketing Skills to Your Resume

There’s no doubt about it, technology has changed the way we communicate and receive information. And because of this change, businesses have had to adapt the ways they communicate with their customers. Today, consumers are in information overload and look to the Internet to receive information about their favorite brands and companies. As a result, over the past few years, companies…

Can home cooking change the world? | Gastón Acurio

When Gastón Acurio started his now world-famous restaurant Astrid & Gastón in the 1990s, no one suspected that he would elevate the Peruvian home-cooking he grew up with to haute cuisine. Nearly thirty years and a storied career later, the chef wants the rest of us to embrace our culinary roots and transform the world with the meals we prepare…