Gordon Hunt joined Silicon Republic in October 2014 as a journalist. He spends most of his time avoiding conversations about music, appreciating even the least creative pun and rueing the day he ...

Even though programming is something many people love—arguably even more people fear—it can get frustrating sometimes. When systems crash and things just don’t go the way they should, it can make even ...

The coding and programming world is truly fascinating. Did you know that the internet is basically built on zeros and ones? All of the data online is converted into these two numbers so computers can ...

Many people assume that working in the tech industry is a great way to land a cushy job with a high salary and lots of perks. But if you want to start coding or begin a career in tech support, it’s ...

A new computer program automatically determines the dates of documents from the Middle Ages. It works by looking for words and phrases that were fashionable at the time — the Ermahgerds of the era — ...

Prof. David Gries, computer science, programmed for the first time in 1959 on a “fake computer.” The machine used a “fake language,” Gries said, as computer languages like Java had not been invented ...