As the new year unfolds, this columnist presents six wishes for Chennai and Chennaiites, looking ahead with cautious optimism. Water security: Managing the reservoirs in a proper manner and ...

NAMAKKAL: A loud silence engulfs the near-empty tribal hamlets at Keezhur, Melur and Kedamalai, broken by the occasional chirping of crickets and other creepy crawlers. Shrubs and bushes have taken ...

In the pre-large language model (LLM) Stack Overflow era, the challenge was discerning which code snippets to adopt and adapt effectively. Now, while generating code has become trivially easy, the ...

Galley cover of Java Essentials Volume 2: Object-Oriented Programming and Beyond Dr. Lawrence Decamora, author of Java Essentials Volume 2 Dr. Lawrence Decamora combines decades of teaching experience ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 on Thursday, calling it a significant upgrade from its predecessors and a major step forward in building the capabilities of large language models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ...

Learn how to use pattern-matching features in your Java programs, including pattern matching with switch statements, when clauses, sealed classes, and a preview of primitive type pattern matching in ...

Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok have exploded in popularity as AI becomes mainstream. These tools don’t have the ability to make new scientific discoveries on ...

Stefania Druga is a research scientist at Google DeepMind and creator of AI education platform Cognimates. Early AI literacy helps kids develop healthy relationships with the tech as they learn to "co ...