GitHub has added a way to show other developers that a pull request is code that is work in progress or even just an idea on how you're thinking of creating code.

A new robot con is on the rise - the robot artist that is personified by its promoters to fool the gullible. Meet Ai-Da, a toy with some software designed to be taken seriously by people who should know better.

Google Domains has the rights to the .dev Top Level Domain and intends to make as much money from it as possible - $11,500 just for early access to the scramble to register the most desirable names.

Catch up with everything that appeared on I Programmer last week. Our digest gives links to news coverage plus the week's book review and additions to Book Watch. We start with feature articles, an extract from Harry Fairhead's soon-to-be-published book, C For The IoT and, from our History section, Douglas Engelbart - The Man Who Invented The Future.

DigitalOcean has launched a Managed Database service for PostgreSQL, with plans to add support for other database engines  throughout the year. The service provides fully hosted and managed database engines.

Everyone seems to want to provide an IoT solution, but it's a tough market to crack. Now Arduino has an easy to use cloud solution, but can you trust it? And is it even needed?

Almost three quarters of all vulnerabilities found in Microsoft products come into the category of memory safety issues, according to a talk by a Microsoft Engineer at this year's BlueHat conference.

The European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission has now agreed a compromise text for the EU copyright directive and the process has entered into its final phase in which it will either be adopted or rejected by a plenary session of MEPs.

Why is it important to understand the inner workings of a neural network? Read on to find out and to be introduced to Google's machine-to-human translator tool, TCAV (Testing with Concept Activation Vectors) 

It is hardly surprising, to me at least, that Android Things is being "refocused". It was unimaginative in the extreme, misunderstood the problems of the IoT and security and was unattractive to anyone knowing Google's tendency to drop projects.

Intuit's Small Business Hackathon is back in London for the third time and has a prizes of up to £5000 for creating a brand new solution that saves small businesses time or money.

The team at SQLite has added a Vacuum Into command that lets you back up a database atomically so that the backup is as small as possible and contains no forensic traces of deleted content.

A tool that alerts you if users are running expensive queries on Amazon Athena query engine has been open sourced by the developers.

Teaching Computer Science at school just got easier as Microsoft is making a 30-hour curriculum, targeted at students in the age range 11 to 16, available as a free download.

The Data Studio team has added a number of new features to allow for faster insights and richer reporting. The improvements include interactive charts, search filters and the ability to embed external data.

The days when we could afford to ignore responsive web design are over. Here's an infographic that summarizes the reasons why we should all be adopting mobile-friendly design.

A study of popular music by data scientists, using the IBM Watson Tone Analyzer, has found increasing levels of anger and sadness in the lyrics from the 50s till now.

Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. Each week our digest gives a handy summary of the latest content. While you are here there's plenty more to explore, whatever topics  you are interested in.