The key themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return ...

Since 2013, there have been metaphorically for programmers to build annual rankings of the world’s most popular programming languages. The rankings have traditionally relied on public signals such as ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Hispanic English learners perform better academically when they have Hispanic teachers who have a bilingual language certification, a new study found. The study, led by Michael Gottfried, an economist ...

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 ...

“These failures disproportionately impact Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, and Arabic-speaking communities, with Spanish-speaking students representing 67 percent of all ELLs,” said the Comptroller ...

A new audit has revealed thousands of New York City public school students who are English language learners have not received the access to courses or instruction they are entitled to, as required by ...

The enrollment of students learning English as a new language has soared in recent years. But a report found “systemic breakdowns” in their education. By Troy Closson New York City’s public education ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

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Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...