Swift 5 switches the preferred encoding of strings from UTF-16 to UTF-8 while preserving efficient Objective-C-interoperability. Because the String type abstracts away these low-level concerns, no source-code changes from developers should be necessary*,…

Amazon might have to choose between shutting down stores or putting cashiers in cashierless locales.

A scheme to stealthily run video ads behind banner images drained users' batteries and data while they used popular Android apps.

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation. Try our code patterns to help build the future of open source. With the second quarter looming…

Despite its relatively low drug abuse figures, the Japanese system is failing to treat addicts.

DropBox/GoogleDrive-style 2-way sync using rsync and fswatch - francoisp/DuplexRsync

At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now cost more than a year at Harvard

Objectives To investigate whether and how user data are shared by top rated medicines related mobile applications (apps) and to characterise privacy risks to app users, both clinicians and consumers.

Design Traffic, content, and network analysis.

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RARS -- RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator. Contribute to TheThirdOne/rars development by creating an account on GitHub.

Only by the bizarre logic of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry does this drug count as any kind of generic.

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Beware the data science pin factory.

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Nature - The nation’s energy ministry expressed ‘deep regret’, and said it would dismantle the experimental plant.

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MIPS will become bona fide for open use. But given that MIPS will offer “commercial-ready” instruction sets with “industrial-strength” architecture, hardware developers MIPS would attract are bigger and more mature companies, including current Arm licensees…