How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack.
The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...
Ultra Engine AI features released in update
Friday, February 2, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ultra Engine 0.9.3 is here, with usability improvements, bug fixes, and new AI-powered features to make game development easier. You can get a discount now in the Ultra Engine store or on Steam all week.
Ultra Engine bug fixes, new AI-powered features, and more released in 0.9.3 update
Object creation has been overhauled with a more visual approa...
AI storytelling tool Tome reaches 1M users
Monday, February 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
Tome, the AI-powered storytelling format that turns your ideas into visually compelling narratives, announced the close of a $43 million Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing investors Coatue, Greylock Partners, Audacious Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital also participated in the round, as well as new investor 8VC and angel investors ...
Female UFC fighter to be paid in Bitcoin
Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Bitwage went into futuristic mode again by working with the #15-ranked strawweight Luana Pinheiro (10-1-0 record) to allow her to become the World’s first UFC female fighter and the World’s first-ever Latin American athlete, in general, to get her paycheck in Bitcoin. By utilizing Bitwage, Pinheiro, the Brazilian phenom on an eight-fight winning streak is ab...
Corona labs goes open source and developers are nervous
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
Corona Labs, which provides a free cross-platform mobile development tool used to create 2D applications, has announced that after years of planning, the Corona game engine will finally be released as an open-source project. Corona Labs expects that by making their engine an open-source project, issues like adaptation to sudden market changes, updates, and requirements ...
Kubernetes project showing strong signs of maturity
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 by Austin Harris
As the Kubernetes project nears 2 million lines of code (including all languages and generated files), the 4-year-old open source project is showing many signs of maturity, according to an analysis by source{d}, a company enabling Machine Learning for large-scale code analysis.
The velocity of commits for the core Kubernetes project seems to be slowing down as the co...
9.7M developers use JavaScript
Monday, April 9, 2018 by Richard Harris
SlashData announces the release of the State of the Developer Nation Report 14th Edition, based on the results of the bi-annual Developer Economics survey, which reached 21,700+ developers from 169 countries in 9 areas of involvement in November-December 2017.State of the Developer Nation Report report focuses on 4 major themes, each with its own visualization:For the f...
Why search has become the backbone of mobile apps
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Elasticsearch is an open source distributed full text search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. We recently connected with Gaurav Gupta, VP of Products for Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch to chat about how search is being used to significantly boost both user adoption and improve the bottom line. He also shared with us what he believes are the thr...
LUA, NodeJS, Ruby, and Go get open source enterprise support from ActiveState
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
ActiveState, the open source languages company, has announced the upcoming release of ActiveRuby, ActiveNode, ActiveGo, and ActiveLua. These new releases will include free community versions for the open source community, plus pre-compiled, tested, professional distributions for enterprise users. Enterprise users will also benefit from commercial support, indemnificati...
NGINX Plus Application Delivery Platform Receives Updates
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
NGINX Plus Release 9 (R9) is the latest release of NGINX’s application delivery platform. New functionality includes the ability to dynamically install rich extensions to NGINX Plus, the inclusion of commercially-supported UDP load balancing, and new pricing and support options. Among the most significant new features is the ability to dynamically load rich extensi...
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