Apache AGE, "A Graph Extension" was recently announced as an Apache Software Foundation Top-Level Project (TLP). What is the importance of that?

GitHub CoPilot has been officially released with a free option for use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects. Other developers will be charged $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. GitHub describes Copilot as an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor.

A team of graduate students at the University of Glasgow has emerged as winners of Amazon's inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge with GRILLBot, a “multi-modal task-oriented digital assistant to guide users through complex real-world tasks”. 

Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. This digest gives a summary of the latest content, which this week includes an extract from Harry Fairhead's Raspberry Pi IoT in C explaining Pulse Width Modulation and one from Ian Elliot's Just jQuery on modifying DOM objects. 

The 2022 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award has been awarded to Mark Horowitz who pioneered the DRAM Interface and whose insights at the intersection of architecture and circuits have had a profound influence.

GitHub has just launched Github Skills, a new learning platform
that replaces the current Learning Labs. This is a change for the better.

Meta is expanding its training offering on Coursera with five new professional certificates for those wanting to embark on a programming career - for the web, for mobile or as a database engineer. Pre-enroll before the starting date to enjoy your first 30 days free.

Apache has announced InLong is now a top level project. InLong is a one-stop integration framework for massive data that provides automatic, secure, and reliable data transmission capabilities.

The Open Source Jobs Report 2022, published today, reinforces the message that gaining certification is very worthwhile for developers. Meanwhile the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022, also published today, reveals that over half of developers engage with the video-based online courses that lead to certification.

It's OK, this isn't about real beavers of any sort, but about Turing machines with a special talent for making the most out of what they are given.

Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course from DeepLearning.AI on Coursera has been revamped and updated and its student ratings suggest it is better than ever. It now uses Python and introduces TensorFlow, but it still covers all the basics.

Rust 1.61 has been released with improvements including custom exit codes from main, along with source-based code coverage. Rust is now safeguarded by the Rust Foundation, a cross-industry body aimed at supporting the language and its developers.

Angular 14 has been released with improvements including typed forms,  standalone components, and new primitives in the Angular CDK (component dev kit).

.NET MAUI has reached general availability, has replaced Xamarin in Visual Studio 2022, and now appears as a project type in Visual Studio replacing Xamarin.

Computer-generated music is an art form in its own right. But what about music made by obsolete computer hardware? The third generation PC hardware orchestra, Floppotron 3.0, from Paweł Zadrożniak uses 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners and makes an impressive sound.

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the articles and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. This week Harry Fairhead looks at multitasking and we have a round up of books on R, the popular language for statistics, data analysis and data mining.   

The OpenCV Spatial AI contest has ended with the announcement of the winners of the popular vote. OpenCV partnered with Intel and Microsoft Azure to bring an AI, computer vision, and manufacturing competition to life.

Emma Haruka Iwao, a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, started a calculation to compute pi to 100 Trillion digits on Google Cloud from her home office on October 14 2021.