A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in ...

Video coding is just about to get a whole lot more efficient. Fraunhofer HHI has officially released the H.266, or Versatile Video Coding (VVC), standard, which offers improved compression up to a ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on your ...

R imports files is when the program reads an external file into memory and uses it in code to perform different manipulations and calculations. There are two different ways of doing this - using the ...

Google Maps is adding new AI features, including a builder agent and an MCP server — a tool that connects AI assistants to ...

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as “mathematically precise and ...

Researchers in Canada have discovered a method to reduce the energy that some data centers consume by as much as 30%. In 2022, the global electricity consumption by data centers was estimated to be ...