Software roles are in such high prominence because software powers pretty much everything. According toMcKinsey, these days, Every company is a software company. Traditional bricks and mortar businesses are now increasingly digital-first. Think of your bank or your supermarket, for example. The way we use these businesses has radically changed, with services increasingly offered online. 5 jobs to discover this week Media are software companies now too. Hundreds of workers atThe New York TimesTech Guild went on strike the day before the US election....

This was thanks to Rubys friendly community and, in no small part, thanks to Matz. (The community has a motto, Matz is nice, and so we are nice.) While all three languages have myriad other uses, timing and external factors often propelled them into broader popularity. 40% off TNW Conference! Sometimes, Ruby on Rails feels like a blessing and a curse for Ruby itself. To many developers, they are one and the same thing....

The next levelAItools will personalise detection of false content as well as protecting us against it. For this ultimate leap into user-centered AI,data scienceneeds to look to behavioural and neuroscience. Recent work suggests we mightnot always consciously knowthat we are encountering fake news. Neuroscience is helping to discover what is going on unconsciously. In other words, these biomarkers may be tells that indicate if we have been taken in or not....

TheEuropean Space Agencyhas given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission tovisit an asteroidcalled (99942) Apophis. Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would causewholesale destructionhundreds of miles from its impact site. Luckily, Apophis wont hit Earth in 2029. The impact of this asteroid brought about a global extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs....

The USDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) is often held as a model for driving technology advances. To create such an agency, the governance and management of European innovation programmes would needdrastic changes. DARPA has backed projects likeARPANET, the precursor to the internet, and theGPS. Today, DARPA shows interest in autonomous vehicles for urban areas and new missile technologies. Many emblematic successes explain why DARPA is a reference agency. They represent opportunities to learn together and build collective strategies in innovation ecosystems....

Predictably, most EU-backed startups work in what the report calls physical tech, i.e. producing tangible goods in the verticals such as spacetech, semiconductors, biotech, etc. In these industries, the share of EU-backed startups ranges from 24% to 28%. From Series A to Series D, EU-funded physical tech startups show a graduation rate thats 1-3 pp. higher than for the rest of the industry. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

This is in fact a waste product of our metabolism. Every square foot of the human bodygives off heatequivalent to about 19 matches per hour. Unfortunately, much of this heat simply escapes into the atmosphere. Wouldnt it be great if we could harness it to produce energy? My research has shown this would indeed be possible. My colleagues and I arediscovering waysof capturing and storing body heat for energy generation, using eco-friendly materials....

The real impact of Apple AI wont be practical but moral. It will normalize AI, make it seem less foreign or complex. It will de-associateAIfrom the idea of cheating or cutting corners. Overcoming early doubts Generative AI has faced two problems since ChatGPT was unveiled in 2022. Many havewondered what its really foror whether its truly useful, givenhallucinationsand other issues that arerooted in training data. Others have doubted theethics of using AI, seeing it as a form of cheating or copyright infringement....

Cameron is famous for making the Avatar and Terminator movies, as well as Titanic. Now he hasjoined the board of Stability.AI, a leading player in the world of Generative AI. So whats behind this? Now it is moving into AI-created video. They come at two different stages of film production. They also combine separately shot images together. James Cameron says the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the ‘next wave’ in VFX....

OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has launched a newartificial intelligence(AI) system calledStrawberry. This raises several major concerns. If Strawberry really is capable of some form of reasoning, could this AI system cheat and deceive humans? OpenAI can program the AI in ways that mitigate its ability to manipulate humans. It was also rated as a medium risk for its ability to persuade humans to change their thinking. Strawberry is not one AI model, or program, but several known collectively as o1....

Among the range ofapps and platformsdedicated to this purpose, others include Googles AlphaCode 2 and Replits Ghostwriter. For those that already know how to code, numerous AI apps have become incredibly helpful too. Many of these tools can also translate code from oneprogramming languageto another, say from JavaScript to Python. It is also changing the game for university educators like myself as we race to keep up. Todays limitations As exciting as all this is, AI coding is still in its infancy....

As well see, thats not always the case. C++ is challenging to learn, and this is down to its multi-paradigm structure and tricky syntax. C++ salaries as disclosed inStack Overflows annual survey, arent especially thrilling. The language uses whitespace characters specifically spaces, tabs, and line breaks, as its sole syntax elements. This means the source code of programmes written in Whitespace is invisible. Cow Cow is another esoteric language designed as a cerebral challenge....

Also featured in the interview is the sound of Andriis heart as captured by Lapsis first machine, Keikku. Here are the links for this episode: 40% off TNW Conference! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions atpodcast@thenextweb.com.