I had an idea today that it'd be really cool if we ran our own programming contest just for fun. The first steps are planning and determining if there is any interest here on Ars. That's what this ...

I found this quite interesting. Basically, given the following description: Binary search solves the problem [of searching within a pre-sorted array] by keeping track of a range within the array in ...

Microsoft's Antonio Goncalves put the advanced GitHub Copilot Chat AI tool to work in a coding challenge, and he was impressed with the results. The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a Java ...

The NBA and Houston Rockets collaborated to bring exciting initiatives to the AfroTech conference in Houston from Nov. 13-16. One of the key highlights was the first-ever NBA Foundation Tech Challenge ...