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In this edition of Org Chart, Dateline UC Davis is sharing news of a number of recent appointments to lead various institutes at UC Davis, as well as leadership positions within the College of ...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described artificial intelligence as the "great equalizer" at London Tech Week on Monday. "The way you program a computer today, to ask the computer to do something for you, ...

The C programming language is one of the most influential in computing history. In just 100 seconds, learn why C remains the backbone of modern software—powering operating systems like Linux, Windows, ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque loop through purgatory, as effectively the same problems are being solved over and over, with previous ...

Demand for software engineers remains high, and this is a trend that is set to continue, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It predicts that employment for software ...

There are many projects that want to make C++ a "safer" programming language. But making changes to the language syntax usually breaks backward compatibility with older code written earlier. This ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

The swing in MicroStrategy’s stock to a big loss from a big gain on Thursday produced a classic chart pattern that can act as a warning of further weakness. The software company and bitcoin play’s ...