Computational grammar is a subject that is sometimes viewed as a form of torture by computer science students, but understanding something about it really does help ....

If you are interested in Terraform, the leading tool for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), then you need to know about Terraform Cloud, the official platform designed for teams to manage and collaborate on Terraform code.

The supreme court has declined to hear the appeal by Apple over the decision that it should open up the App Store to other methods of payment. It really doesn't matter because Apple has found a way to do the job and still come out on top.

The Colossus computer was created during WWII to decipher critical strategic messages between the most senior German Generals in occupied Europe. To mark it's 80th anniversary GCHQ has released new photographs relating to Colossus..

PostgresML is a machine learning extension for PostgreSQL that lets you perform training and inference on text and tabular data using SQL queries. It opens up intriguing possibilities. Let's find out more.

The European Union has revised the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), reducing the concerns of the open-source community.

ROScribe is an open source tool that utilizes prompt engineering to get a LLM to generate ROS compatible software packages for managing your robots.

Wing Python 10 has been released with new AI-assisted code suggestions and refactoring, plus support for Python 3.12.

Until recently visitors to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center, visitors could take home a paperweight souvenir costing $100 HKD, and was claimed to contain shredded banknotes equivalent to 138 complete banknotes of $1000 HKD. Could computer vision reconstruct notes from masses of tiny shreds?

Google has updated its Cast feature to make it easier to send video or audio from apps to be displayed on other devices such as TVs.

Facts and figures from the Linux Foundation's 2023 Annual Report reveal just how important the organization is in terms of providing the infrastructure and resources needed to sustain open source projects and communities.

Microsoft has announced three extensions to its Copilot AI companion software; a premium subscription service, Copilot Pro; a Copilot app for iOS and Android phones; and the availability of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for small and medium companies.

TinyBase is a Javascript library that enables you to create an in-browser, local-first, reactive data store. Too much terminology in one sentence - let's dissect it.

Author: Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan and Peter J. Weinberger
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-0138269722
Audience: Developers interested in Awk
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

The name Brian Kernighan among the authors of this updated classic raises expectations as to the book's content, and it doesn't disappoint.

This book shows how to put the Raspberry Pi to good use in IoT by combining expertise in electronics and programming.  Harry Fairhead shows how to work directly with the hardware using the Raspberry Pi's GPIO (General Purpose Input Output) to connect with off-the-shelf sensors.

This book sets out to disprove the idea that concurrency is extremely challenging. James Cutajar uses the easy-to-grasp concurrency tools of the Go language to demonstrate principles and techniques, steadily teaching you the best practices of effective concurrency. The book looks at universal principles of concurrency, along with how to use them for a performance boost in your Go applications. Techniques learned in this book can be applied to other languages.

Mattel's Intellivision console rocketed into homes across the U.S. in the early 1980s and transformed video gaming. Jamie Lendino looks at how its arcade action and 16-bit system with the industry's first voice synthesis and controls unlike any other console were key to its success.