Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

The February 2026 feature update for the Visual Studio 2026 Stable Channel is labeled 18.3 and centers on AI-assisted workflows plus debugging, testing, and modernization updates. New additions ...

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More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Google’s Learn About AI tool has more educational, textbook-style responses to guide you through new topics. Google’s Learn About AI tool has more educational, textbook-style responses to guide you ...

Human echolocation has at times allowed people to ride bikes or play basketball despite being completely blind from a very young age. These echolocators typically perceive their environment by ...

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Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too intense? Well, help is at hand in the form of a series of increasingly difficult programming ...

Stacey, the chief executive of a nonprofit focused on energy efficiency, wanted to bolster her leadership team by creating a chief operating officer position. Her first two hires to fill the role were ...

AI tools are the latest craze to impact the tech industry — and by extension, the rest of the world. For years now, bosses everywhere are trying to boost profits by replacing workers with AI, and ...