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Week-by-week I Programmer has new articles and book reviews, written by programmers, for programmers. We also cover breaking news stories and recently published books. In this week's articles Harry Fairhead looks at Shifts and Rotates in C and, to mark Pi Day, Mike James explores Non-Computable And Other Numbers. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
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Bit manipulation is almost dead in high-level languages, but it is a core technique in C. In fact, it is one of the reasons for using C. This extract, from my new book on programming C in an IoT context, looks at shifts and rotates.
What are the limits to computation? The computer science theory of computation can be intimidating because of its use of logic but taking a programmer's approach makes it seem much simpler. So if you want to know what a non-computable number is - read on. 
Rust is one of the more remarkable new languages that has a reasonably large following. Oxide, an experimental formalized programming language close to source-level Rust, but with fully-annotated types, highlights its special approach to variables and assignment. 
Google's Stadia, its subscription-based cloud gaming service, was formally announced during Google's keynote at the 2019 Game Developers Conference. Stadia will deliver access to games on any screen - TV, PC, laptop, tablet and phone - via the Chrome browser and requires no additional hardware, although Google has developed its own controller. 
An interactive course on Educative's platform exploring the underlying principles of FP in Javascript with aid of the small RambdaJS library.
The Linux Foundation has launched a new project aimed at incubating open source cybersecurity tools. The Red Team Project's main goal is to make open source software safer to use. 
Startups characterized as being concerned with AI attract 15% to 50% more funding than other technology firms. However, some 40% of firms classified AI startups in Europe lacked evidence of using AI. 
A network for Go developers has been launched by a combination of the Go community leaders at GoBridge and Google. The Go Developer Network (GDN) is designed to provide a single place for information on Go. 
The AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO) is a competition focused around AI for self-driving cars. It made its debut in December 2018, at the machine learning conference NeurIPS and now teams are preparing for the second edition to be held at ICRA 2019 in May. As before it will be run using the Duckietown platform. 
More than 800 million devices are now running Windows 10. This milestone wasn't announced with a fanfare but was included on Microsoft's “By the Numbers” site, a link that was then tweeted by Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's Corporate VP for Modern Life and Devices. 
.. but not necessarily the one you were expecting. In a continued embrace of open source Microsoft has placed the code for Windows Calc on GitHub - the UWP version that is. 
The GraphQL Foundation has announced a collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation, and new members including Neo4j have joined.
To mark this year's Pi Day, Google has announced a new world record of 31.4 trillion digits for our favorite irrational mathematical constant, Pi. 
A new experimental tool designed to help scientists prepare interactive documents using web technologies has been released in an alpha version. Iodide is designed to encourage 'communicative workflows' by bundling the editing tool as part of the document.