It is easy to make fun of a language when you don't really understand it and are simply comparing it to what you already know. JavaScript suffers a lot from the WAT! style of humor. So does it deserve it?

Deep neural networks seem to be entering a new phase and AI is going mainstream. Microsoft has implemented its BING voice search using artificial neurons and the system is faster and more accurate.

The majority of respondents to a recent survey indicated that they are not yet breaking even with the revenue they are generating with their app compared to the costs of operating it and 81% are not making enough money to consider their app a standalone business. However, 81% of respondents stressed that they are not considering abandoning their app.

Google has released the latest version of Google App Engine, with the Search API moving a stage closer to General Availability.

The new NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi was recently launched ahead of this year's International Supercomputing Conference, which is being held this week in Leipzig, Germany. NAG is showcasing Mark 24 of the NAG Library for SMP & Multicore at ISC13.

According to a well-supported rumor Microsoft is paying some developers up to $100,000 to port popular apps to Windows Phone 8.

Google BigQuery has been updated. The service for analyzing large amounts of data now can handle larger result sets, and has functions for advanced analytics, and caching of large query results. At the same time lower prices have been announced.

It should come as no surprise that popularity of movie trailers is correlated with a movie's success. However, a Google whitepaper reveals that search query patterns can predict box office performance with a surprising degree of success.

Researchers at MIT have designed a wearable tactile display that uses vibrations to provide information. This could prove a useful way to provide feedback for those with impaired hearing, or in noisy environments.

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, I Programmer Weekly is a digest of book reviews, articles and news written by programmers, for programmers.  This one covers June 6-12.

Mapping is widely considered the most difficult perceptual problem in robotics, both from an algorithmic but also from a computational perspective. An innovative way around the problem relies on Rapyuta, the RoboEarth Cloud Engine.

You may think a good user interface for your app involves making it easy for users to enter their login details, but think again, and think more attention grabbing this time.

Java - evil. Byte code is like communism.  "It is a virus". So we turn off Java and yes there is a button that can do that. Watch as events unfold in this stylish promo for JavaZone Norway. 

A short time ago we reported that Google was using some sort of AI to find photos that contained named objects. It seemed a reasonable guess to say that it was using convolutional neural network but there were no details - now there are.

 A new cartoon introduction to cryptography doesn't gloss over the details, but it all seems so much easier in black-and-white.

Java EE 7 is being "launched" with a video "Licensed To Code". Get it - EE7 and 007?  Or is Oracle letting slip that it really would like us to need a license to code?