Another decimal point upgrade to Android Studio and more hope for the future. I really wanted to like this one.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is working on revised guidance for distinguishing between patent-eligible and patent-ineligible subject matter. It has called for comments by March 8, 2019 but I doubt it would want to hear ours.

Microsoft has released an updated version of ML.NET, its a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. The updated version has API improvements, better explanations of models, and support for GPU when scoring ONNX models.

A dispute between Unity and Improbable over violations of terms and condition by the cloud-based game development platform, Spatial OS, was played out in a series of blog posts. It also led to a $25 million fund being set up to help devs move to more "open" game engines.

This isn't "big" news but it is ironic. Google has few enough ways of engaging with the public - could it be that closing down comments is just another way to avoid having to deal with complaints and questions?

Amazon has launched a database that's compatible with the MongoDB API, but doesn't use any MongoDB code. The move is being seen as a counter-move to MongoDB's attempt to make Amazon pay up for using its open source software.

Archaeological artifacts are usually found in bits - and the broken fragments suffer from all sorts of degradation that makes it difficult to reassemble them. Recent research has come up with a novel algorithm for automatic reassembly that performed remarkably well on broken artifacts and frescoes. 

Weather forecasts are always wrong, but with more data they could be right. Not only more accurate, but also more specific. How to get the data and how to process it? The Weather Company might have an answer and it is a surprising one.

Week-by-week I Programmer has new articles and book reviews, written by programmers, for programmers. We also covers breaking news stories and recently published books. Python features in articles, books and news this week - making it our language of the week.

A fun and practical introduction to the underpinnings of AI. 

The fifth major version of Bash, the UNIX/Linux scripting shell has arrived. The new release has fixed a variety of bugs from the previous version, and has also added new features and improvements to better conform to POSIX specifications.

The developers of V8, Google's JavaScript engine, have expanded on how the latest release improves async functions and promises, as well as making it easier to debug async code.

A new specialization that seeks to address the shortage of professionals with data analytical skills has just launched on the Coursera platform. It comprises three courses from SAS taking students from complete beginner to being ready to earn a SAS credential that is recognized across many industries.

The National Security Agency will give a session at the RSA security conference in March in San Francisco at which it will release a free version of GHIDRA, its reverse engineering tool.

If you have been following the hype around the wonder language Python, then this headline will come as no surprise. Is this Python's 15 minutes of fame?

For the second year in a row, software developer tops the list of  the U.S. News and World Report's annual best jobs rankings.

A State-sponsored bug bounty comes as refreshing news in that it shows that amongst the bureaucrats there are tech savvypeople who understand the true value of OSS software to society, and as such the impact when its security goes wrong. 

A new version of Flair, the simple Python Natural language processing (NLP) library has just been released by Zalando Research. Flair is built in Python on top of the PyTorch deep learning framework, and the updated version adds two new pre-trained frameworks that you can use.