National governments release all kinds of official data online, but most people don’t make use of it. San Francisco-based programmer Andrew Godwin is not most people. He recently found a way to use ...

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Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...

A system that automatically fills in the gaps in programmers' code becomes more powerful. A recent programming language called Sketch allows programmers to simply omit some of the computational ...

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A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers. Tom Smith, a veteran programmer, shows how ...