Enter the Neoverse with Azure’s Cobalt servers

Microsoft has been running Arm servers as part of Azure for some time now, initially with Altera Ampere hardware, but now with its own Cobalt 100 hardware. The Cobalt processors are based on Arm’s Neoverse architecture and were first announced nearly a year ago, with...

Syncfusion open-sources UI controls for .NET MAUI

Developer tools maker Syncfusion has released a set of open source UI controls for Microsoft’s .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), for building high-performance applications for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows from a single codebase. The Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET...

Why we get buggy software

The manufacturing of physical objects is largely understood, mostly because the same thing is being produced over and over. If you are cranking out widgets, the process is orderly, repeatable, and possibly even perfectable. You can find and improve the worst...

The best Python libraries for parallel processing

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being single-threaded. That is, CPython doesn’t use more than one hardware...

The power of prime numbers in computing

Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be made by multiplying other whole numbers together. This deceptively simple attribute hides a world of complexity that has engaged mathematicians ancient and modern. This quality of primes also has essential...