Microsoft has released Preview 4 of Visual Studio 15, the forthcoming update to its flagship integrated development environment (IDE). One of the biggest changes in the preview is an improved
Tech vendors continue to snap up artificial intelligence (AI) startups at a rapid pace. Today, it’s Microsoft purchasing Genee, which uses natural language processing and decision-making algorithms to perform some
The Linux Foundation has released its annual report on Linux development, titled “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who
A new report from the Indeed Hiring Lab compares developer salaries in various U.S. cities, accounting for cost-of-living differences in various regions. Interestingly, software architects, the highest-paying developer job title,
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab has released the code for a project called fastText. The social network says fastText helps it classify text more quickly than with traditional
As promised, Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, it’s command-line scripting language for the .NET framework. In addition, it released alpha versions of PowerShell ports for Linux and Mac OS X.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is working on a new suite of development tools called Open Mind Studio. On August 2, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Applications
Google’s cloud computing service has announced that three of its cloud databases have exited beta and are now ready for general use. Cloud SQL Second Generation, Cloud Datastore and Cloud
A new report from TVP Strategy, formerly known as The Virtualization Practice, says that DevOps teams aren’t paying enough attention to security and code quality metrics. It suggests that they