At the recent MakerCon festival in San Francisco, inventors, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs displayed the latest connected devices that might be showing up soon in a store near you. The maker movement ...

James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect. Gosling is a ...

JetBrains, the Prague-based maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA, has introduced a new JVM-targeted programming language. Code named "Kotlin," it's a statically-typed language ...

Java is drawing a rising number of businesses and software developers but still must overcome major obstacles before its long-term success is assured--including roadblocks from the very people who ...

Oracle will release today 128 fixes for security vulnerabilities that affect "hundreds" of its products. The software giant and Java maker said in a pre-release announcement today that four of the ...

There was a moment in history when assembly coding and the knowledge of it largely disappeared from the world. Before it, the programmers knew and cared about the binary code the CPU saw, even if they ...