Earlier this week security reporter Brian Krebs pointed out an odd glitch in Google Translate. It had to do with the service’s treatment of “Lorem Ipsum” placeholder text—the string of Latin words ...

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's over ...

“If you are not the original author of legacy software, you approach it with no existing mental model for how the code is originally intended to work, nor any formal model of how the code actually ...

Almost all organisms share the same genetic code. Identification of the evolutionary differences between the system for the translation of the genetic code in humans and other organisms are useful for ...

“Bring our home computing out of the 1970s and into the 1980s and beyond” is the irresistible promise made by the creator of 8088ify, a piece of software which translates CP/M executables from their ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —An EPICS student team is launching a fundraising effort for its project helping deaf and hearing-impaired people with learning opportunities to find jobs in the technical ...

The event allows Translate.org.za to mentor student programmers who work on programming tasks set by the organisation, while Google will pay the students who participate in the Summer of Code. "We’re ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —An EPICS student team is launching a fundraising effort for its project helping deaf and hearing-impaired people with learning opportunities to find jobs in the technical ...