The DHT22 is a useful low-cost temperature and humidity sensor and you can use it via PIO assembler for the Pico. This is an extract from our latest book all about the Pico in MicroPython.

John Warnock is a mathematican turned computer scientist. Wihout him there would probably be no Apple, no PDF and no printers that produce typeset quality output. Find out how he invented PostScript and bailed out the Mac.

A presentation by the father of Python or its BDFL as we used to know him, Guido van Rossum, announced that Microsoft has backed him to create a faster Python.

There's a brand new Specialization on Coursera that will take you from basic to advanced SQL skills using PostgreSQL, the highly popular open source SQL database.

A 1.5 release is always interesting and Kotlin continues its development into a "do-it-all" language with its latest update.

Apache Arrow has been updated to version 4.0. It has extra C++ compute functions for numeric and string data, and improves the performance of Arrow Datasets.

The Jetpack Compose saga continues with its newest installment, Web, which is an attempt to unify development across Android, Desktop and Web platforms. Compose this,Compose that, it's easy to loose track. So let's put order to this chaos!

Angular 12 has been released and the developers say this version moves close to achieving "Ivy Everywhere". Ivy is the code name for Angular's next-generation compilation and rendering pipeline.

iWildCam 2021,  a computer vision contest to count the number of animals recorded in camera trap data, is currently underway on the Kaggle platform. Data for the competition comes from the Wildlife Conservation Society  and iNaturalist.

It is impossible to develop an application that is 100% secure. No matter how hard you try and how in-depth and strict your development approach is, threats can arise as the application security scenario is a dynamic one. 

The Linux Foundation has launched an open source digital infrastructure project for agriculture with the aim of promoting global collaboration across the agricultural industry. AgStack will aim to increase digital transformation and address climate change, rural engagement and food and water security.

OtterTune is a tool powered by self-driving DBMS technology out of R&D at Carnegie Mellon University that aims to alleviate the fundamental difficulties of tuning a DBMS.

There's a new version of Nano, Gnu's command line text editor. Nano 5.7 improves the position and size of the indicator, and has several memory leak fixes.