Python is on the rise, predicted soon to overtake Java as the most popular programming language on the Tiobe index. Should you catch up?

PostgreSQL 12 has been released with improvements to partitioning and handling of btrees, along with support for multi-column most-common-value statistics.

Humans! Rest easy we still beat the evil AI at the all-important Angry Birds game. Recent research by Ekaterina Nikonova and Jakub Gemrot of Charles University (Czech Republic) indicates why this is so. 

No, it's not a story about food poisoning or any thing at all to do with it. A new paper suggests that with the right encouragement and understanding the IoT crowd could change their hardware from silicon to bacteria.

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Node-RED has reached version 1.0 with improvements including a new asynchronous message passing model,  and a new Node Send API.

Part of the Code With Google initiative, Grasshopper is Google's free learn-to-code tool for adults. Since its launch as an Android and iOS app, it has already been used by more than two million people and now there's a desktop version together with additional content.

Google has just open sourced a tool that lets you visualize how your program is being treated under Linux scheduling. The idea is that you can use SchedViz to tune the system.

The latest release of SQLite is available with support for Nulls in Order By clauses and the ability to use Filter on aggregate functions.

We all look up code online and then modify it and incorporate it into our programs, but is this a safe practice? New research suggests that it most definitely isn't.

Google's Project Jacquard has finally launched wearables that seem stylish and incorporate technology in an appropriate and practical manner. Your choices are an Yves St Laurent backpack and range of Levi's jackets for both men and women.

Apache Rya has become an Apache top level project. Rya is a  cloud-based big data triple store (subject-predicate-object) database used to process queries in milliseconds.

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks - not only do we trip over them at every other turn, the message that they are the way of the future is constantly reiterated. Coursera, in partnership with IBM now has two Professional Certificates for those who want an AI credential or to embark on an AI career.

A Python library offering Natural Language Processing for TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch has been released by HuggingFace.

and all the other smart speakers. A new study attempts to characterize our relationship with these comparative newcomers to the tech ecosystem.

A comic strip approach to machine learning? Could it possibly work? The hero is a cat, so of course it can.

TED-Ed has a new resource to interest kids in coding. It's an animated story, the first episode of which lasts less than seven minutes and introduces for, next, and while loops.

On I Programmer we not only bring you the news, we provide the information you need to make the most of it. Our featured article this week is a case in point. Having recently reported that WPF is now part of .NET Core, Mike James has rustled up an article on Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation. We also have more book recommendations, this time on Web Design and Development.