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Python skills boom, in-demand jobs, self-driving cars, and more: Tech research round-up

All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.

December 5, 2019 by Mark Samuels

Julia programming language, cloud computing, cybersecurity worries: Research round-up

All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.

September 6, 2019 by Mark Samuels

The biggest events in Linux's history

A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.

August 27, 2019 by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Best-paid tech jobs, malware warnings and shadow IT: Research round-up

All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.

July 5, 2019 by Mark Samuels

HackerOne's top 20 public bug bounty programs

These are the top 20 biggest, fastest, and most lucrative bounty programs on the HackerOne platform.

June 19, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu

Cloud computing trends, where developers want to live, AI skills, and 5G: Research round-up

All the data that matters to you from the past month in technology news.

March 11, 2019 by Mark Samuels

The rise of Julia, Brexit woes, tech investment, and digital transformation: Research round-up

All the charts that matter from the last month in technology news.

February 8, 2019 by Mark Samuels

WordPress 5.0 is out. Here's a tour of the new features!

WordPress' first major upgrade in years is here, and it was worth the wait. New WordPress 5.0 comes with a revamped and totally gorgeous WYSIWYG editor.

December 6, 2018 by Catalin Cimpanu

Photos: Retro computer games that Eastern Europe played as Iron Curtain fell

Video games gave Eastern Europeans an escape from the harsh realities of everyday life, yet few had the opportunity to play them.

August 23, 2018 by Andrada Fiscutean

Photos: Cold War ZX Spectrum clones spawned behind the Iron Curtain

Fitted inside telephone cases, or even toy organs, these Speccy replicas were less expensive but arguably more creative than the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

April 20, 2018 by Andrada Fiscutean

10 reasons why Romania's capital Bucharest is a great place to work in tech

With high salaries, low living costs, and warp-speed internet, Bucharest is an appealing destination for techies.

September 21, 2017 by Andrada Fiscutean

19 caffeine-laced foods to replace coffee

Because sometimes you're in your fifth dev meeting, the beta still isn't done, and you're both tired AND hungry.

September 22, 2016 by ZDNet Staff

The most epically bad tech product launches of all time

In "go big or go home" world of tech, these products went home.

September 21, 2016 by Lisa Bernier

17 fascinating tech pioneers who are not Steve Jobs

Contrary to what Mac lovers may think, Steve Jobs wasn't the most important person the tech world has ever seen

September 21, 2016 by Lisa Bernier

10 alternatives to the Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi might be the name that springs to mind when people think of single board computers for homebrew projects, but there are other boards out there worth considering.

June 16, 2016 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Twenty years later, the Y2K bug is making a comeback

Daphne Leprince-Ringuet explains that, back in 2000, some developers left the Y2K issue until later –- and later has now arrived. Read more: https://zd.net/2FP5r02

3 days ago by Karen Roby

Developer: Consider moving if you want to earn more money

If you're willing to make the move, those programming languages might make you more money in a different country.

January 13, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Developer: The Y2K bug is back and causing problems

Twenty years ago, some developers dealt with the millennium bug by postponing it until... now.

January 10, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Developer: C beats Java to programming language of the year title

Up and coming developers can do themselves a favor by learning the programming language C.

January 9, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Wave of REvil ransomware attacks against unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers

Researcher warns organizations to patch Pulse Secure VPN flaws now or risk 'big game' REvil ransomware attacks.

January 8, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Microsoft's Outlook Android app: 100 million downloads from Google Play Store

Microsoft's popular Outlook app makes gains on Android after being preinstalled on Galaxy Note 10.

January 6, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Why 2019 was the year of Linux and open-source software

These five stories show why the future of technology belongs to Linux and open-source software.

January 2, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

This particular browser gives web developers nightmares

Web developers reveal what they really hate about their jobs.

December 31, 2019 by ZDNet Editors

Javascript: Developers reveal their top features and frameworks

JavaScript developer survey shows key trends of 2019.

December 24, 2019 by ZDNet Editors

Raspberry Pi: 30 million sold and counting

Raspberry Pi sales grow from 700,000 units in 2012 to 30 million units this year.

December 23, 2019 by ZDNet Editors

Teaching titanium atoms to dance... for quantum computing

Chris Lutz, staff scientist at IBM Research, tells Tonya Hall how to see and move individual atoms within quantum computing.

December 16, 2019 by Tonya Hall

Rogue developer used typosquatting to create two trojanized Python libraries

The malicious Python libraries were caught stealing SSH and GPG keys.

December 12, 2019 by ZDNet Editors

Google’s AI makes memory a game

Tiernan Ray explains how DeepMind, a unit of Google that develops ambitious AI projects, found a way to stimulate the kind of long-term planning of risk and reward that humans do by turning memory into a game of actions and future payoffs. Read more: https://zd.net/2YEyR9W

December 9, 2019 by Karen Roby

In the tech sector? The top skills you must have in your CV

If you're smartening up your resumé, you might want to highlight these attributes.

December 9, 2019 by ZDNet Editors

Alibaba Cloud publishes machine learning algorithm on GitHub

Chinese cloud vendor releases "core codes" of its Alink platform on GitHub, uploading a range of algorithm libraries that support processes for machine learning tasks, such as online product recommendation.

December 4, 2019

Brandcast for Salesforce, first take: Create customer-focused microsites

June 7, 2019 by Mary Branscombe

Apple Mac Mini (2018) review: The little Mac that could

November 7, 2018 by Jason Cipriani

Atlassian Stride, First Take: A relaxed approach to collaborative chat

December 29, 2017 by Simon Bisson

FileMaker 16, First Take: Powerful but still usable

June 16, 2017 by Mary Branscombe

Sphero SPRK: The robot ball which teaches you how to code

April 11, 2016 by Charlie Osborne

Visual Studio 2015 RC, First Take: A one-stop shop, from phone to cloud

June 19, 2015 by Simon Bisson

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Premium review

There are features in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 that many people will never use, but its core dictation capability is excellent, while the context-sensitive sidebar help is a big improvement.

September 14, 2012 by Sandra Vogel

Office 2013: a pleasant surprise

After a week of using Office 2013 we're pleasantly surprised. The changes Microsoft has made to support Windows 8 — and specifically Windows 8 tablets — are logical, and they work well with more traditional ways of using Office.

July 16, 2012 by Simon Bisson

Windows Intune 3.0: Preview

Version 3.0 of Microsoft's cloud-hosted management platform is now available, adding support for mobile devices — including iPhones, iPads and Android.

July 12, 2012 by Simon Bisson

SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 supports everything from departmental servers to large-scale enterprise clouds. With Hadoop integration imminent there's much to be said for upgrading — if only to prepare your datacentre for big-data private clouds. Just keep an eye out for the effect of per-core licensing on your costs.

April 16, 2012 by Simon Bisson

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6

The latest update to Corel's venerable vector drawing package brings several overdue features, does some catching up with Adobe and adds useful new tools for working with vectors. It all adds up to a powerful but still-challenging graphics suite.

April 2, 2012 by Mary Branscombe

LibreOffice 3.5

LibreOffice continues to improve, but it's still playing catch-up to Microsoft Office, and there's no sign of a vision that would make it a significant competitor on anything but price.

February 21, 2012 by Mary Branscombe

Nitro PDF Reader 2.0

For a free product, Nitro PDF Reader 2.0 delivers a lot of functionality, and for the most part delivers it very well. Apart from the odd interface niggle and its restriction to the Windows platform, we have no hesitation in recommending it.

July 13, 2011 by Charles McLellan

Internet Explorer 9

IE9 is Microsoft's best version of its browser to date, although its lack of Windows XP support is unfortunate. Otherwise, it's fast, usable and standards-compliant.

March 15, 2011 by Simon Bisson

OpenOffice.org 3.3

This is a welcome update, but it's definitely a point release: unless you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office on financial or philosophical grounds, 3.3 may not be the version to make you switch.

January 27, 2011 by Mary Branscombe