This is not your grandmother's Java. Despite hanging around since 1995, Java is the programming language that keeps on giving. In fact, in a recent jobs report, Dice.com named Java one of the top five languages to know if you want a programming job in 2015.How has Java remained king...
OkCupid’s dating trends research blog is back, reminding us again just how shallow humans are, and that our time spent on the Internet can be modified to a company’s whims.While unveiling the latest social dating data, the dating site also took a shot at critics of online research experiments, specifically...
We knew StackOverflow was different. Turns out it's, well, really different.The technical Q&A site looks like your standard Web developer hangout. But according to new data from IEEE Spectrum, its community has some unusual technical tastes. For instance, its readers evince a serious interest in the niche-y area of embedded hardware development—that is, programmable...
Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski started a firestorm over the weekend when he presented findings that Apple has—apparently deliberately—created undocumented "backdoors" in its iOS operating system that third parties could use to siphon personal data from iPhones and iPads under certain circumstances without notice, much less consent of the user.Apple, meanwhile,...
It’s easy to get swept up in the media myths of the technology world. The good news is that a new generation readying themselves for careers in tech are looking past the stereotypes and embracing opportunity.On Friday, LinkedIn hosted an event as part of its LinkedIn For Good initiative, in which it...
You may not have heard of Imgur, but the site serves 5 million images a day to an audience of 130 million visitors a month. And its popularity among viral meme makers is both its strength and its weakness.“It’s almost like, before, one big firehose of images came through the site,”...
Python is now the most popular introductory language at American colleges, a recent Association for Computing Machinery study reports. In an analysis of the top 39 computer science departments as ranked by U.S. News in 2014, the general-purpose programming language has replaced Java as the budding computer scientist’s first exposure...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.There’s a hard truth about consumer electronics: Today’s top-of-the-line devices speed toward obsolescence pretty fast these days. The smartphone, tablet, TV, watch or appliance you bought today is going to look absolutely archaic tomorrow. That’s even true for...
Researchers recently published a paper that detailed how they manipulated the emotions of 689,003 Facebook users in 2012, in an effort to determine whether positive and negative posts had an effect on their moods. It turns out that yes, people feel differently and thus post differently, when they see positive or negative...
The machines have taken over; the future of the Internet of Things is already here. Across a dizzying array of applications, machines are generating copious quantities of data, most of it being pushed to the cloud for storage, processing and analysis.As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told attendees at the MongoDB World...
The Automotive Linux Summit will be taking place at the Chinzan-so Conference Center in Tokyo, Japan July 1 - 2, 2014. Individuals from the fields of automotive systems engineers, Linux experts, R&D managers, business executives, open-source licensing and compliance specialists and community developers will gather for this event. The Automotive...
One of Google's primary goals is to spread its Android operating system to any device that you may touch, and that's going to be a major theme this week at Google's I/O 2014 developer conference. Android Wear smartwatch development will be front and center. Android TV—a rumored entertainment service from Google—may make...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Salesforce, the maker of online tools for tracking customers and helping employees collaborate, is the latest company to try and capture the buzz around wearable devices, following in the Nike-clad footsteps of Samsung and Apple. Earlier this week,...
We used to program software. Now it's programming us.This is more than a new spin on Marc Andreessen's "Software is eating the world" argument. Andreessen is right, but the shift, as O'Reilly's Mike Loukides points out, is less about how software is becoming an essential component of every business, and...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.There’s a lot of enthusiasm about Apple’s newly announced HealthKit software, especially from the makers of fitness apps and connected devices.I hate to throw everyone into the locker room and turn the cold-water faucets on full blast, but...
Apple is almost ready to announce the structural underpinnings of every product that it will release this year at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. For developers, everything you need to know to build iOS apps for the iPad and iPhone, the additions and design of Apple's Mac...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.As a tubby teen, I distinctly remember reading The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book, an anthology of short stories collected by the late, great Isaac Asimov. In one of them, a family—all of whom could stand to shed a...
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. What do you get when you take the greatest advertising company on the planet, computers that live in people's pockets, software that guesses where...
The Internet of Things has been hyped for 15 years, but until now technological realities haven't supported technological possibilities. Today, given the confluence of cheap semiconductors, telecom operators with excess capacity and a new generation of open source data infrastructure, IoT is not simply possible, but probable. The question is what...
Hate to break it to you, but if you want one of the best jobs you'll have to learn how to code. Or do complex math. Or decipher data. Or all of the above.For those that already have these skills, your bank balance probably shows it. According to CareerCast's "Best...
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