Coroutines are now a stable part of Kotlin and an important way of creating asychronous code so the second edition of Mike James Programmer's Guide to Kotlin includes a completely new chapter on this powerful but under-documented feature of Kotlin.

In the second chapter of Janet Swift's book on using a spreadsheet to take care of your personal and business finances, we explore the idea of borrowing money for a specified rate of interest or earning interest on an investment.

In the past, Stephen Wolfram has offered prizes for proofs that are in line with his particular way of thinking about the world. Now we have a prize for proving that S is all you need.

The results of HackerEarth's second survey are in and reveal that developers are negatively impacted by Zoom meetings and dislike the lack of  post-interview feedback. These results may not be surprising but they are interesting.

Browser extension are perceived as unsafe and yet they seem to spread like wildfire. One limiting factor is that they tend to be browser specific. Now a new group aims to create a common architecture to standardize future web extensions.

Amazon has added support for global clusters to its DocumentDB database. Amazon DocumentDB was created by Amazon for its internal use to be compatible with the MongoDB API without using any MongoDB code following MongoDB's move to a paid-for model.

Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, has  announced that it is acquiring Stack Overflow for US$1.8 Billion. Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar described this as "tremendously exciting news".

The Angular team has announced a new Chrome DevTools extension and a change to the way feature requests are handled.

and a laser of course. It isn't a new idea but at last someone has given it a go and made some results available. You might be surprised what the biggest problem is.

Hector Levesque of University of Toronto and Moshe Vardi of Rice University have been named as the 2020 recipients of the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award. They share the $10,000 prize, co-funded by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Google has opened submissions for two annual developer programs - the Indie Games Accelerator and the Indie Games Festival. These programs are designed to help small games studios grow on Google Play, no matter what stage they are in. 

An implementation of Basic that is fully code-compatible with VB.NET has been released. Mercury adds multi-platform support and is feature compatible with C#.

GraalVM, the runtime that compiles Java bytecode into native self-contained executables has reached version 21.1.