Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

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 ...

Xilinx, one of the world's biggest programmable chipmakers, announced a new deal to acquire C/C++ programming and analysis tool provider Silexica. Xilinx is still in the midst of its own acquisition ...

I am writing this column for a number of reasons. First, I enjoy programming, and I find writing about it to be a trip. Second, a lot of wonderful programming tools are out there, but many are lost in ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...