ACM has named Maria-Florina Balcan of Carnegie Mellon University as the recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, for influential and pioneering work in machine learning which has solved longstanding open problems. 

There's a minor upgrade to Babel ahead of the 8.0 release expected in the next few months. The current update adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and improves the optimization for JSX transforms.

Microsoft Edge has increased its market share to the point where it has overtaken Firefox to become the second most popular browser on the desktop. The trends - upward for Edge and downward for Firefox, over the past few months suggests that this is a permanent and irreversible change.

The eleventh version of ECMA Script has just been finalized and we can look forward to some fun things as the year progresses. So what's new?

Vodafone is asking smartphone users to help with a project aiming to speed up research to find a cure for corona virus. The Corona-AI project will be delivered through DreamLab, Vodafone's app originally aimed at helping cancer research.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Library has opened its virtual gates to non-members for free until June 30, 2020.

The window for applications for Google's Season of Docs 2020 is approaching, and mentoring organizations will be able to begin submitting applications to Google from April 13. Season of Docs is a project supported by Google that aims to bring open source organizations and technical writers together.

Due to the Covid-19 planetary wide scare, many conferences instead of being canceled have gone purely virtual. To know which ones are choosing this delivery method Spokable has posted an ever-updated tracker of virtual conferences, at the moment covering over 40 online events.

Microsoft is shutting down TechNet Gallery, the website where TechNet members could share scripts, tools, and guides for use with Microsoft products.

Boeing has so many bigger problems that this one could go unnoticed, but it is of special interest to us programmers. The FAA has issued an order that 787s have to be switched off and on every 51 days.

Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. This week's featured articles are an extract from Ian Elliot's JavaScript Async book and another chapter of Modern Java by Mike James.

The Eclipse Foundation has released Theia, described as a true open source alternative to Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code. Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud and Desktop IDEs.

Pluralsight is giving free, unlimited access to its entire library of more than 7,000 video courses for the entire month of April. The offer is open to new users who have to sign up but don't need to provide credit card details.

GitHub recently passed $1,000,000 in total payments to researchers since moving its program to HackerOne in 2016.  Over half its total awards were made in the last year alone, reaching almost $590,000 in total bounty rewards across its programs.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 has been released with a number of improvements including revamped Git functionality and a new .NET Async tool.

Not just why, but how? Moving an app from an existing language to a new one isn't something that happens every day, but since the advent of Kotlin it's more common than it was. So what is Java to Kotlin all about?

David Silver, best-known for AlphaGo, is the latest recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. It is awarded for his breakthrough advances in computer game-playing and contributions to the "growing and impactful area of deep reinforcement learning".

Ever since it introduced its project-based micro-credential, Udacity has offered Nanodegrees in Web Development. We take a look at the latest revision of the Full Stack and Front End Web Developer Nanodegree Programs while there is still time to take advantage of the Free Access for a month offer.