A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

What if you could automate the most tedious parts of coding while maintaining full control over your projects? André Mikalsen breaks down how Auto Claude, a free and open source AI coding assistant, ...

The source code for Android 16 QPR1 is now available on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) after a weeks-long delay. This release gives developers access to the code for new features like Material ...

Mojang has dropped some huge news for Minecraft Java players - especially those that love to mod. While the modding scene is already thriving in Minecraft, it's not as accessible as you'd expect for ...

Implement a DFS-based topological sort for directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). This algorithm is crucial in scheduling, dependency resolution, and compiler design. Perform DFS traversal maintaining ...

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) — a technique that converts light into much higher frequencies — is an essential tool for exploring otherwise inaccessible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

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 ...

Abstract: Quantum computers are highly vulnerable to noise, necessitating the use of error-correcting codes to protect stored data. Errors must be continuously corrected over time to counteract ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...

Microsoft at 50: Bill Gates is Gifting Everyone With the Company’s Original Source Code Your email has been sent Fifty years ago, Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded a company ...

There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that, for the first ...