IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over 800 billion lines of COBOL in use on production systems, up from an estimated 220 billion in 2017.
Read MoreTechCrunch+ Roundup: Monetizing generative AI, sex tech checkup, patents and IP
Several years ago, I was chatting with a friend who’d become an investor about an idea I had for a startup. It wasn’t a pitch: I just wanted to see what they thought of my premise. “That sounds like a solid lifestyle startup,” they replied, “but most investors I know
Read MoreMicrosoft can’t stop discontinuing Kinect
Kinect occupies a strange place in the tech world. It’s a nearly universally beloved piece of technology that was both ahead of its time and very much of its time, all at once. It felt — for a moment — like it was going to revolutionize gaming, but much like
Read MoreThey made a scary matcha Pokémon
A new Pokémon just dropped, and it’s literally a chipped teapot of matcha. It is called Poltchageist, and yes, that’s a portmanteau of poltergeist and matcha. It’s ghost tea. Yes, Pokémon has already made this joke before, when they introduced Polteageist in the Pokémon Sword and Shield games, which take
Read MoreScroll Programmatically With SwiftUI ScrollView
Photo by Tianyi Ma on UnsplashWhen looking into ways to implement UIKit’s setContentOffset(_:animated:) in SwiftUI, I’ve run into quite a few approaches. Some of them — such as using the id for ScrollView and redrawing the whole thing — are fairly creative, though rather excessive in 2023. Here I suggest much easier ways to set
Read MoreParallelism Strategies for Distributed Training
A summary of techniques and state-of-art tools for different use casesPhoto by Marius Masalar on UnsplashDiving into distributed training is a complex adventure at first. There’s a maze of tool guides and options out there that can leave data scientists without a clear roadmap. Even many articles don’t give you the big
Read MoreIBM sells The Weather Company assets to Francisco Partners
Following rumors that it was exploring the sale of its weather business as part of a move to streamline operations, IBM says that it’s found a buyer for The Weather Company, the weather forecasting and information company it acquired in 2015. Francisco Partners, the private equity firm, has signed a
Read More6 Ways to Build Planning Agents
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Read MoreChronic technical debt could be holding your company back
We’ve been hearing about digital transformation for over a decade now, the idea that you have to modernize your systems for a more digitally centric world. What holds back digital transformation? Well, lots of things, from office politics to budget prioritization to inertia, but one big factor preventing companies from
Read MoreLanding, a platform for making virtual mood boards, brings its creation tools to mobile
Landing, the community-powered social platform where users create and publish virtual mood boards and collages, today launched a mobile feature called “Creation,” allowing users to express their creativity on the go. Previously only available on the web app, Creation is arguably the most popular tool amongst Landing’s 275,000+ users since
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