Software Development

elementary OS 0.4: Review and interview with the founder

My thoughts about Loki (it's great, but not for me), and what elementary's founder, Daniel Foré, says is the best feature of the open source operating system

Reality, Virtually sets record for largest AR/VR hackathon

Five floors of the MIT Media Lab were occupied last weekend by developers, designers and storytellers building open-source AR/VR projects

With help from Docker, Google’s Go jumps in popularity

The language has climbed to 16th place in Tiobe index and could claim Programming Language of the Year honors

Datadog on an automation roll, makes support ticket creation seamless

There’s no rest for this fast-moving and rapidly growing monitoring company

Book review — The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics

Tech in banks: Innovating within a sometimes lethargic industry

Banks aren’t known for being agile, innovative organizations. Westpac Bank CIO Dawie Oliviet is changing that perception.

French software developer sues Apple, seeking improvements in iOS browser

Nexedi says Apple's insistence that apps use its version of the WebKit rendering engine means some HTML5 functions won't work on iOS

It’s (not) elementary: How Watson works

The technology underlying IBM's AI has evolved considerably over the years

Watson’s the name, data’s the game

For IBM's 'cognitive' AI, Jeopardy was just the beginning

Milestones along the way in Watson’s colorful history

Year after year, IBM's AI has broadened its reach