19 October 2022
Almost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022
17 August 2022
The navigation strategy of NASA's Curiosity rover means it has to stop frequently to check its position, but soon a software update will allow it to move almost continuously
2 February 2022
AI company DeepMind has built a tool that can create working code to solve complex software challenges
2 September 2021
AI that automatically generates source code to help human programmers complete projects has been found to include bugs or security flaws in up to 40 per cent of the code it outputs
8 July 2021
A Microsoft-owned tool powered by artificial intelligence is designed to make life easier for programmers, but some developers say it may be repurposing some of the billions of lines of code it was trained on without permission
22 March 2021
The Firefox and Chrome web browsers are effectively as fast as each other, but people view Firefox as quicker if they read news coverage suggesting it is
31 March 2020
Inside a mountain in the Arctic, Microsoft is building a backup of open-source software that it says will keep the code safe for 1000 years
19 November 2019
Apps that secretly give people access to their partners' smartphones are growing in prominence, but is the threat being taken seriously?
3 July 2019
Sight Machine, an AI project at the Barbican, shows how the algorithms used in techniques like facial detection capture the performance of a string quartet
26 June 2019
Donna Lu investigates the murky world of security tech. She finds cameras packed with artificial intelligence, fingerprint scanners and a live owl
