To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...

Functional language based on ‘content-addressed code’ promises to simplify distributed programming and eliminate builds and ...

Arguably, the ATmega328P is being left behind as ‘the Arduino processor’ because Arduino’s are following the rest of the world and going 32bit.

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...

This hardware sat quietly in the background while most of the attention was focused on algorithms and data. Google’s decision ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Small language models are like specialised tools in a toolbox, compared to something like ChatGPT that brings the whole workshop.

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

Will stuffed animals and mini robots with built-in AI chatbots help or hinder children's language development?