Software

Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson from Google’s Programming Language

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Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson from Google’s Programming Language

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and parallax scrolling; they confer upon themselves multihyphenate job titles (“ex-Amazon-engineer-investor-author”) and crowd their laptops with identity-signaling vinyl stickers. Some regard themselves as literary sophisticates. Consider the references smashed into … Read more

6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners

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6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners

It’s time for some of my reflections on a week in San Francisco talking to dozens of executives and workers in tech. It was a grueling trip, but a necessary one, because we are at a pivotal time when it comes to the revolution of artificial intelligence and accelerated computing. AI gets talked about a … Read more

Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s $1.7 billion antitrust fine

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Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s .7 billion antitrust fine

A Google logo displays on a smartphone screen and the European flag on a computer screen. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine imposed on Google by regulators should be annulled, siding with the U.S. tech giant after it challenged … Read more

With Apple on board, OpenAI’s next act could be its toughest yet

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With Apple on board, OpenAI’s next act could be its toughest yet

OpenAI stormed onto the scene with ChatGPT and upended the tech world in less than two years. But over the next few months, the artificial intelligence darling will face some of its biggest tests yet. A highly anticipated partnership with Apple will supercharge its reach, putting it in front of millions of users who may … Read more

Adobe shares fall 9% on weak fourth-quarter guidance

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Adobe shares fall 9% on weak fourth-quarter guidance

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, Feb. 20, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Shares of Adobe fell more than 9% on Friday, a day after the software company released third-quarter results that offered worse-than-expected guidance for the fourth quarter. Adobe … Read more

Amazon makes £8 billion UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure

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Amazon makes £8 billion UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure

Amazon’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech giant’s effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter said. Cesc Maymo | Getty Images News | Getty Images … Read more

Mike Lynch reported missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily

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Mike Lynch reported missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily

Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit, speaking at a conference on Thursday, April 25, 2013.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is missing after the sinking of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. The sources, … Read more

Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs

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Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs

Starting Monday, Zoom users will have the option to open a document tool from within their video calling app and create sharable files based on their meetings—but they’ll also be prompted to use generative AI to help them write and edit them. This new feature, essentially Zoom’s version of docs, is the latest effort to … Read more

Apple strong quarter puts it on sure footing ahead of AI iPhone launch

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Apple strong quarter puts it on sure footing ahead of AI iPhone launch

Apple delivered quarterly beats after Thursday’s closing bell ahead of what’s expected to be a robust artificial intelligence iPhone upgrade cycle in the months the come. Revenue in Apple’s fiscal third quarter, which ended in June, grew 5% year-over-year to a record of $85.78 billion – ahead of the LSEG estimate of $84.53 billion. Earnings … Read more

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

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Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

For someone just getting into this weird craft, BASIC felt positively thaumaturgic. It was spellcasting: You uttered words that brought iron and silicon to life, and made them do things. (As the software engineer Erin Spiceland puts it, coding is “telling rocks what to think.”) If you were, as I was, marinated in Tolkien and … Read more