When Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Microsoft set out to make the Windows operating system, they could have had no idea of how popular it would become. Shortly after its launch in 1985, it exploded in use ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs. At the start of the simulation, a biped ...

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Computers may soon be able to interpret unique uses of the human language, according to a recent study published by researchers from UC Berkeley, the University of Toronto and Lehigh University.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we have a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for some time. The topic this week is quantum computers. It is quite a niche topic and finding people who actually ...

Q: I keep all my financial records in a program I wrote in 1988, using dBASE III file structure (.dbf) and compiled it with Clipper, DOS version. I run it on old hardware under Windows XP. My other ...

Threat modelling is the process of visualising vulnerabilities in software from the design phase through the software development lifecycle. A relatively new software security practice, it has ...

The shift to digitally networked societies, where daily activities are interlinked with the help of computer-based systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies, is having a huge ...