Samsung Presents 'Your Companion to AI Living' at The First Look during CES 2026

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today unveiled its 'Companion to AI Living' vision at The First Look, its CES® 2026 event held ...

UGC NET exam analysis 5 January 2026: Difficulty level, good attempts & paper review

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has started conducting the UGC NET December 2025 exam on December 31. The exam is being ...

How to create and run a PowerShell script file on Windows 11 or 10

To change the execution policy to run PowerShell scripts on Windows 11 (or 10), use these steps: Open Start. Search for PowerShell, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator ...
TechSpot

Microsoft urges customers to prepare for VBScript deprecation in their Office VBA macros

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 ...
The Verge

Here’s the original source code for Microsoft’s very first product

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. is a news writer focused on ...
EDN

Save, recall, and script oscilloscope settings

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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

VC Michael Mignano on embracing a ‘grow or die’ mentality (Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg)

When Michael Mignano founded his first company in 2015, he received advice to move to the Bay Area. But he wanted to build in New York City. “It’s the greatest city in the world,” he says. The company ...
Wired

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Axing VBScript in Favor of JavaScript/PowerShell: Here's the Timeline

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...
ZDNet

BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.
TechSpot

BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...