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 ...

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 ...

AI coding tools act like power tools for programmers. Programming jobs will change, but not disappear entirely. New tester and AI-wrangler roles will grow alongside coders. Something terrifying is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

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 ...

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 ...