Can programming be a craft? I was thinking about this as I was reading Matthew Crawford’s excellent book The World Beyond Your Head. Much like Crawford’s earlier work Shop Class as Soulcraft, he ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kevin Lisota on Jan 22, 2016 at 11:15 am January 22, 2016 at 12:44 ...

Anyone who tells you the robot apocalypse is upon us—that the machines will not stop stealing our jobs, that they are gearing up to chase us through the streets while doing backflips and fighting off ...

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini have turned artificial intelligence from science fiction into a daily tool. ChatGPT alone handles more than 2.5 billion prompts per day, proof of how quickly people ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google's annual developer conference doesn't officially kick off until Wednesday but about 120 of the company's youngest developers are already getting to preview one of its ...

So we ended last episode with programming at the hardware level with things like plugboards and huge panels of switches, but what was really needed was a more versatile way to program computers - ...

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Makefiles are used by Make, which automates build processes via makefiles to compile code efficiently. Makefiles consist of ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on "the initial promises of the web"—one of which was the idea that you could select "view source" ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. DeepMind has created an AI system named AlphaCode that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive ...

Python is incredibly popular because it's easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That's about to change in Python 3.11, ...

"Software is eating the world," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared. Someone has to write that software. Why not you? There are thousands of programming languages, but some are far ...