Code.org has gone all out to celebrate its 10th year. No longer just a global event, Hour of Code, which starts on December 5, has gone extra terrestrial with an hour-long feature about Computer Science in space beamed from aboard the International Space Station.

Striim has announced the availability of Striim Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Striim is also available on Google Cloud and Azure.

November might seem somewhat soon to be thinking about next year's Google Summer of Code - but if you want to participate, either as a new contributor or as a new open source organization then its certainly not too soon as the 2023 program has been announced.

Microsoft has released a new version of ML.NET, its cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. The new version 2.0 adds a text classification API. A new version of Model Builder has also been released,

JetBrains has announced a partnership with Constructor University. In the joint educational program the institutions aim to create a launch site for top performing students both online and onsite. There are plans for Joint Center of Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering to drive the future of software development by virtue of industry-oriented education and training. 

Another giant shows its support for Java. The news is that
Google has joined the Adoptium Working Group and is making Temurin available across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products and services. So what's the deal?

What a difference a hip replacement can make! Not only for humans but also for this ornithopter, a flapping-wing robot that is work-in-progress at the University of Seville's GRVC Robotics Lab.

This week included Fibonacci day, an annual celebration of the 12th century Italian mathematician, Leonardo of Pisa aka Lenardo Fibonacci who introduced a very simple mathematical sequence also related to the Golden ratio. The day falls on November 23, which represents the sequence 1,1,2,3.

Not gifts that you give to robots, although our Alexa has just made a request for a new USB power supply, but robot-oriented gifts to give to the wetware entities in your life.

"Create Your Own Compiler" is an interactive tutorial that step by step shows how to write your own simple compiler that transforms JavaScript into Lisp. Along with it, we take a look at what a compiler actually is and the state of the art that is Roslyn.

Microsoft has released the preview version of Azure Orbital Space SDK, a secure hosting platform and application toolkit that they say will enable developers to create, deploy, and operate applications while in orbit.

Coursera is the leading provider of online Computer Science and Data Science courses, at all levels beginner to advanced. An annual Coursera Plus subscription gives access to the majority of Coursera's vast catalog and to mark Black Friday/Cyber Monday it is offering a 25% discount, $100 off the normal price of $399, to new subscribers.

The recently released Java 19 comes with the JEP 425 preview of Virtual Threads as part of Project Loom. VSCode was quick to adapt it.

Did you know that today is Fibonacci Day? It honors the 12th century Italian mathematician known for the number sequence that is regarded as "nature's secret code". The day is celebrated annually on November 23. Before you read on can you work out why this date was chosen?

It is a remarkable fact that in a social network there are usually only six people linking any two members - this is often called the "small world effect" because picking any two people in the world at random we would expect then to be connected by no more than six people - why? Why isn't the world composed of effectively isolated groups of people?

Deno 1.28 has been released with stabilizied compatibility for npm. Deno is the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js.

Fred Brooks, who managed the development of software for IBM's System/360 family of computers and based his book The Mythical Man-Month on that experience, has died at the age of 91.

Angular 15 has been released with improvements including better performance and the availability of new standalone APIs which enable developers to build applications without using NgModules.