The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

Tsutomu "Tom" Matano was born on October 7, 1947, in Nagasaki, Japan. You probably know Mtano as the father of the Mazda Miata. At age 77, he passed just last year, leaving behind a long career and ...

• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...