Visual Studio Code 1.51 brings workbench improvements
Visual Studio Code 1.51, an upgrade to Microsoft’s popular open source code editor published this week, is being described by the project as a...
What Biden will and won’t be able to achieve on climate change
Though the counts aren't finished and the legal challenges could drag on for weeks, Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election is looking...
An Election Week Covid Surge, Vaccine Progress, and More
Cases rise as election results come in, vaccines and treatments advance, and the reach of screening and tracing technology grows. Here’s what you should...
Half the Milky Way’s sun-like stars could be home to Earth-like planets
The new study has not yet been peer-reviewed, but it will be soon, and it is due to be published in the Astronomical Journal.
“This...
MarkSetBot to launch new technology – Sail World
MarkSetBot to launch new technology
by Jan Harley 7 Nov 02:41 AEDT
MarkSetBots at the Bacardi Cup © Image courtesy of MarkSetBot
Fully automated...
Swift language concurrency model proposed
Plans are afoot to outfit Apple’s Swift language with a “first-class” concurrency model. The goal is to make concurrent programming in Swift efficient, safe, and...
What will cloud security look like in 3 years?
Gartner states through 2020, public IaaS workloads will suffer at least 60 percent fewer security incidents than workloads in traditional data centers. When I pointed...
Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows
Back in 2016, I could count on one hand the kinds of interventions that technology companies were willing to use to rid their platforms...
The New York Times is thriving in chaos
We are living, the cliche goes, in unprecedented times. The New York Times, however, seems to be in a very familiar Groundhog Day scenario:...
Facebook took down a massive “Stop the Steal” group after its members called for...
Facebook took down a massive group tied to Republican operatives where people were spreading misinformation about the 2020 presidential election process and calling for...
