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Past articles by Nick:

What is AI? Here's everything you need to know about artificial intelligence

An executive guide to artificial intelligence, from machine learning and general AI to neural networks. → Read More

Microsoft Teams: A cheat sheet

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about the chat-based communication and collaboration platform Microsoft Teams, one of the most popular Zoom alternatives. → Read More

Retreating from the cloud: Why its silver lining may be losing its lustre

A number of businesses are choosing not to put their data in the cloud. The leader of an open-source project to allow firms to build a Dropbox alternative on their own servers discusses why hype about cloud services is failing to meet reality. → Read More

Brexit and its impact on tech jobs and companies: A cheat sheet

Brexit throws up a raft of questions for tech companies about how Britain's departure from the EU will change how they do business. Find out how it'll affect you. → Read More

Facebook's Hack: Can it escape PHP's fractal of bad design?

Is Facebook's makeover of PHP enough to overcome the limitations of the scripting language? We asked Alex Munroe, author of the oft-cited screed on the language's failings, 'PHP: a fractal of bad design'. → Read More

Getting to know you: The race to build a better virtual assistant

Speech recognition company Nuance is working on a project that could allow virtual assistants to know what you want before you've asked for it. → Read More

A bigger and better Raspberry Pi: Five things to try out with the new model B+

Here are five tasks that just got easier to achieve with a Raspberry Pi following the release of an upgraded version of the $35 Linux board. → Read More

Tackle Cross Site Scripting using Content Security Policy

Lessen the risk of falling victim to one of the biggest security threats on the web by using Content Security Policy headers on your website. → Read More

Stephen Wolfram on the future of programming and why we live in a computational universe

The brains behind Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language talks about how programming languages need to develop. → Read More

The Pragmatic Programmer: Classic developer handbook is retooled for the 21st century

The authors of The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition on how software development has changed and the essential skills for a modern dev. → Read More

Windows 10 Start menu problems? Microsoft investigates if latest fix breaks search

This week's patch for the earlier CPU spike bug appears to have caused fresh problems for Microsoft's flagship OS. → Read More

This $60 Raspberry Pi 4 rival runs Android 9, plays 4K video, and has an AI accelerator

The $59.99 Khadas VIM3L is the latest board to challenge the Pi 4 in the low-cost, single-board computer market. Here are its pros and cons. → Read More

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale

How type annotation and type checking helped Dropbox maintain a massive Python code base. → Read More

The top programming languages of 2019: Python is number one, say engineers

The most popular languages according to the world's largest organization for engineering and applied science. → Read More

Want your Raspberry Pi 4 to run a modern graphics card? This engineer's working on it

This extensive mod has attached four working PCIe slots to the low-cost computer. → Read More

What are open-source operating systems? Everything you need to know

The lowdown on what open-source operating systems are and why they matter. → Read More

Windows 10 not working after latest upgrade? Here are the bugs to look out for

Microsoft is still working on resolving a number of outstanding problems, ranging from machines slowing down to updates not installing. → Read More

The rising programming languages that JavaScript developers are learning in 2019

A new analysis of Stack Overflow data sheds light on which emerging languages web developers are focusing on. → Read More

Programming languages: Java developers reveal their favorite tools

The type of jobs performed by developers who primarily work with Java, as well as the technology these Java devs use to do their job. → Read More

Programming languages: JavaScript developers reveal their favorite tools

A new analysis has shed light on the technologies developers are using to help them build web and native apps with JavaScript. → Read More