When Dean Hudson was 12 years old, he'd bribe his brothers and sisters to read computer manuals to him. Hudson's vision was muddled by glaucoma, and he wanted to learn how to code on the computer his dad brought home. "At that age, I'd ...
New iPad App Makes Learning to Code Easy & Fun for Everyone Swift Playgrounds is easy enough for students but powerful enough to write real code. Cupertino, California — Swift Playgrounds, an innovative new iPad app from Apple ...
Tags: Swift Playgrounds, iPad app
The Raspberry Pi is one of the coolest gadgets around, but what's even sweeter is the awesome array of things hobbyists manage to build with it. Enter #FridayPiday, our new weekly feature dedicated to highlighting the best builds and bakes. ...
Tags: Raspberry Pi, wearable camera, GitHub, Manoj Nathwai, #FridayPiDay
Oracle is seeking a whopping $9.3 billion in damages from Google over its continued use of Java in Android. There have been so many high-profile tech-related court cases in recent years - Apple vs Samsung, Apple vs The FBI, Microsoft vs ...
Called Cubetto, the play-set from Primo toys has secured over $400k on Kickstarter with a project that teaches youngsters the basics of coding. A tech-infused wooden toy play-set designed to teach pre-schoolers the basics of coding has ...
Tags: Kickstarter, Cubetto, Primo toys
As we move into 2015, Apple has cast a quick glance back at the performance of its App Store in 2014 - and it likes what it sees. Apple has announced that 2014 was by far the biggest year for the App Store, with sales rising a massive 50 ...
Tags: Apple, Store, Consumer Electronics
KinderLab Robotics, an Arlington-based startup, is nearly half-way toward its $50,000 Kickstarter goal to teach children ages 4 to 7 to learn how to code with a programmable robot kit. The robot kit, called KIBO, allows children to use ...
Tags: Robot, Electrical, Electronics
Windows developers are feeling the demand for mobile apps, but they say their current tools and skills are preventing them from delivering those apps. Adding to the pressure, the demand for mobile apps is layered upon the expectation that ...
Tags: Apps, Windows, software, Computer Products
Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize the incidence of terrorist strikes like the Boston Marathon bombing, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a rare interview with CBS This ...
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Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle's database,application server,Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft's Azure cloud service.? The deal,which will also provide Oracle ...
Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
Tags: Google, Red Hat, Private Clouds, App Engine
Apple on Tuesday updated OS X Mountain Lion, likely for one of the last times, with a combination of compatibility and reliability bug fixes as well as vulnerability patches. The update to OS X 10.8.4 -- the first from Apple since ...
Tags: Apple, Lion Bugs, Java Defenses
Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
This year's prestigious international HERMES AWARD has been won by Bosch Rexroth. "This year's HERMES AWARD has been won by Bosch Rexroth, an internationally successful manufacturer of high-tech products. For many years the company has ...
With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility in scripting their deployment routines. Puppet 3.2.1, the first public release in the ...