Microsoft is improving the support for Python in Visual Studio with the release of Python Tools for VS 2.1 beta.

Chrome 34 has been released and Chrome 35 is available in beta. What do these new releases have on offer for devs?

Microsoft has announced that the Windows 8.1 Update 1 that was released on April 8th is being treated as a "new servicing/support baseline". What does this mean?

One of the most common applications of AI or advanced stats, depending on how you look at it, is the recommendation engine. All too often the first impulse is to build your own - but it's tough and there is a ready made solution in the form of PredictionIO. 

Without prior notice to developers who have apps on sale there, Microsoft has introduced a new pricing structure for the Windows Store noting that this "may impact" your app pricing.

The End of Life date of Python 2.7 has been extended by 5 years to 2020 to accommodate users who can't yet migrate to the Python 3. Although some Pythonistas are relieved by this news, others are infuriated because it could slow the adoption of Python 3.

NASA has already delivered an early version of its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) designed to protect a planet from catastrophic impacts However, the planet being protected isn't Earth - ARM has been developed initially for Kerbin.

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There is a new Raspberry Pi in town, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, but in principle it isn't that different from the old one.  What is going on?

The biggest release ever of MongoDB has improvements to aggregation, text-search integration, query-engine improvements, a new write-operation protocol, and security enhancements.

Microsoft does seem to be trying to bring .NET back, if not into the lime-light at least out of the darkness. A new report on user feedback makes interesting reading and reveals that Microsoft is listening - but only if you are saying what it wants to hear.

An updated version of the Google Dart SDK brings performance of the Dart VM to that of Node.js. It is claimed new version is twice as fast as its predecessor for asynchronous Dart code combined with server-side I/O operations.

You've heard about the HeartBleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, you probably have had to deal with its consequences - but perhaps you don't know just how old fashioned a bug it is. 

The stable version of MariaDB 10 has been released with better performance and new features. One major change is support for data in non-relational databases courtesy of the new Connect engine.

It is just over a year since Google broke away from WebKit and decided to create its own version of the rendering engine just for Chrome. What is amazing is just how much benefit Chrome has accrued from the change.

If you use the sideloading facility to install apps without using the Windows Store in Windows 8.1, the new Windows 8.1 Update adds two new features that possibly makes it more usable in an enterprise setting.