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 ...

Version 5.5 of the CUDA tools for the first time support ARM CPUs, which are broadly used in smartphones and tablets Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

Open source programming tool on the rise: Emacs LISPEvery so often, I come back to emacs and recognize just how wonderful it is, 20-odd years after it first took hold. Even today, it is easier to ...

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 ...

A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have seen how a technological tool—be it a mobile application or a website—became their best ally when it comes to ...

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 ...

Offline programming, or OLP, can accelerate robot deployment in high-mix, low-volume applications, explains the founder and ...

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 ...