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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research software is like the tower-building game Jenga — tools atop tools atop tools. When developers tweak their individual pieces, this can change the function of the software that depends on them, ...

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 ...

AI-based coding tools won't be able to compete with the LLM giants. Observability is one possible way to differentiate the tools. Some startups will get acquired, others will go out of business.

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 ...

New research in Contemporary Economic Policy reveals that generative artificial intelligence tools like GitHub Copilot may ...

The rise of vibe coding tools is changing how developers build software, turning ideas into working applications faster than ever. Instead of writing every line manually, developers can now describe ...

In a recent survey conducted by GitHub, the leading online code hosting platform, the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on developers’ work was analyzed. This study targeted American companies ...

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 ...