Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Overview:  Game development tools help developers build games faster with smarter features and easier workflows.Popular ...

Overview:  AI coding tools help developers write code faster, fix bugs more easily, and spend less time on repetitive work. Many tools also help with testi ...

IBM has revamped its quantum computing programming tools so developers can use a more streamlined approach to run experiments and access quantum circuits. The tools, IBM Quantum Composer and IBM ...

How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled Visual FoxPro. I’m glad I had the opportunity to contribute to improving the Ring ...

A hot potato: Generative AI is disrupting a lot of areas, especially the programming industry. For a while now, tech leaders have claimed that the technology can make anyone a coder, and that kids don ...

The video game industry is now bigger than it has ever been before, with more and more young people interested in developing their very own video games –- and rightly so. After all, game development ...

OpenAI is rolling out 'Codex' for ChatGPT, which is an AI agent that automates and delegates programming tasks for software engineers. OpenAI isn't explicitly claiming that Codex will eventually ...

From IDE plugins to external chatbots and running LLMs locally, these new and emerging tools are bringing the generative AI revolution to R. My previous article focused on some of the best tools for ...

From supply chain management systems and productivity suites to machine learning models, it’s undeniable that software-powered innovation has become a key driver of the digital economy. According to a ...

Nvidia has released a Mac OS X version of its CUDA programming tools. Nvidia’s CUDA tools help developers utilize the GPUs on newer Nvidia graphics hardware as parallel processing engines. CUDA, or ...

The White House is pushing hardware and software makers to build their products using programming languages with internally-engineered guardrails that prevent hackers from peering into the inner ...