Coding Dojo published data on the programming languages and frameworks that the top unicorns use, like WeWork, Juul, Airbnb, and SpaceX.

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

After archaeologist Deni Seymour found the rarest artifact of her career, her excitement turned to worry that she would be investigated by police. She had unearthed a 3½-foot bronze cannon in Nogales, ...

The British documentarian and naturalist beat the record set by Dick Van Dyke, who won a Daytime Emmy last year at 98. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Sir David Attenborough became the oldest person to win a ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Between 17 January 2023 and 19 August 2024, María Branyas Morera, of Spain, was officially the world’s oldest person, until she died aged 117 years and 168 days. To uncover the secrets of her ...

Anyone who has ever flipped open a dinosaur book is likely familiar with pachycephalosaurs. These dome-headed dinos are often depicted ramming the tops of their bowling-ball-like skulls into predators ...

Human bodies carefully preserved by smoking up to 14,000 years ago have been found at archaeological sites in South-East Asia, making them the oldest known mummies in the world. A similar practice ...

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 ...

Ethel Caterham was born Aug. 21, 1909. The world's oldest living person is celebrating turning 116 on Thursday. Ethel Caterham, who was born Aug. 21, 1909, was recognized in April by Guinness World ...