Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled Visual FoxPro. I’m glad I had the opportunity to contribute to improving the Ring ...

OpenAI is rolling out 'Codex' for ChatGPT, which is an AI agent that automates and delegates programming tasks for software engineers. OpenAI isn't explicitly claiming that Codex will eventually ...

A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have seen how a technological tool—be it a mobile application or a website—became their best ally when it comes to ...

IBM has revamped its quantum computing programming tools so developers can use a more streamlined approach to run experiments and access quantum circuits. The tools, IBM Quantum Composer and IBM ...

Nvidia has released a Mac OS X version of its CUDA programming tools. Nvidia’s CUDA tools help developers utilize the GPUs on newer Nvidia graphics hardware as parallel processing engines. CUDA, or ...

Cursor seeks funding that could value AI coding startup at $50 billion. AI coding tool’s revenue run rate topped $2 billion in February. Competition heats up in AI coding tools with OpenAI, Anthropic.