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Gates, Zuckerberg and others come together in coding PSA

Gates, Zuckerberg and others come together in coding PSA
  • Posted February 26, 2013, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News With Video
  • A number of high-profile members of the technology industry have teamed up with celebrities to back a new initiative designed to get kids interested in programming. The nonprofit foundation Code.org wants to get more schools involved in teaching programming classes…

Google Giving donates 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers to children

Google Giving donates 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers to children
  • Posted January 30, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Google is helping to find the next generation of computer scientists by helping to donate 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers to various school-aged children across the U.K. Google’s Eric Schmidt and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton visited a school in Cambridge…

Microsoft faults developers for cracked Windows Store apps

Microsoft faults developers for cracked Windows Store apps
  • Posted December 12, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Mobile Computing
  • Microsoft says a crack which allows hackers to download paid-for Windows Store apps without spending a dime is the fault of insecure app code and not a Windows Store issue. Redmond is essentially placing the onus of protecting apps against…

Microsoft has "no plan" to release DirectX 11.1 for Windows 7 (Updated)

Microsoft has "no plan" to release DirectX 11.1 for Windows 7 (Updated)
  • Posted November 14, 2012, 3:22 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Gaming
  • According to a reply from an engineer on Microsoft's Developer Network forum, DirectX 11.1 will be available exclusively for flavors of Windows 8 only. There are apparently no plans to release 11.1 for Windows 7 or Vista. "DirectX 11.1 is…

Custom UT2004 bots are more human than real-life players

Custom UT2004 bots are more human than real-life players
  • Posted October 1, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, The Web
  • Programmers were tasked with the challenge of creating the most human-like UT2004 bots -- and it appears they delivered. In the competition sponsored by 2K games, the top two UT2004 bots tricked 52 percent of the judges into thinking they…

Twitter's grip tightens with new API, upsets some devs

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  • Posted August 17, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Twitter product manager Michael Sippey announced that Twitter's next API revision is expected to launch in "the coming weeks". An API, or "application programming interface", is a framework by which developers are granted the ability to access certain features, data…

Mozilla previews Thimble, a refreshingly simple HTML coding tool

Mozilla previews Thimble, a refreshingly simple HTML coding tool
  • Posted June 19, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • With a variety of noteworthy projects already under its belt such as Firefox, Bugzilla and Thunderbird, Mozilla is adding a new one to its lineup named Thimble. The web-based project aims to nurture aspiring web developers by providing an incredibly…

Google makes unmodified Android theme compatibility requirement

Google makes unmodified Android theme compatibility requirement
  • Posted January 5, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • In an effort to create a consistent experience for its users, Google is requiring manufacturers who ship their devices with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) to include Holo, its default theme intended for a "pure" Android experience. Google will still allow…

Weekend tech reading: Google creating new Web language, Dart

Weekend tech reading: Google creating new Web language, Dart
  • Posted September 11, 2011, 2:44 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Google's at it again with a new programming language, this one called Dart. In 2009, Google launched Go, a language designed for writing server software and handling other chores often handled today by C or C++. Dart, though, is "a new programming language...

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