The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Google's new interactive data visualisation feature in AI Search is currently available only to users testing it through Google Labs. Google is quietly testing a new way to present information in ...

Algorithmic trading is designed to automate market activities, reducing human error and emotional influence in financial decisions. Discover some of the top ...

Digital oscilloscopes have a great thing going for them: they are digital. Instrument settings, waveforms, and screen images can be saved as digital files either internally or to external devices. Not ...

Macros package a series of processes into a single script, enabling you to execute lengthy or monotonous tasks in just a few clicks. Previous editions of PowerPoint, and other Office products, used ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Computing educators and students face challenges and opportunities in adapting to LLMs capable of generating accurate source code from natural-language problem descriptions. The current pace of ...