Juan Baron claims a language barrier made it difficult for him to understand his plea agreement. By the time the Columbia ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

AI-powered coding opens doors for innovation but also for exploitation, as cyber risks rise with the rise of 'vibe coding' ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Microsoft’s fast-growing language for .NET may be poised to overtake Java in popularity for the first time, Tiobe said.

Programming languages are tools that help developers communicate with computers and build everything from apps to AI systems.

From Oxford, England, where Ruby’s dreams come alive to the London spots that define James' luxurious world of power and ...

JSONC is one attempt, of many, to improve JSON. Other formats that try to do something similar include YAML and JSON5. Each ...

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 ...

Quantinuum, the quantum computing company majority-owned by Honeywell International, has released its latest offering: a quantum programming language. It’s more exciting than it sounds, the CEO says.

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...