We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

How many of you speak more than one language? Since Hackaday is an English-language site whose readership is world-wide, we are guessing quite a lot of you are not monoglots. Did you learn your second ...

Another state lawmaker is proposing that coding classes take the place of foreign language classes in high school. This time, the legislation has been proposed in Virginia. The bill filed by ...

Michigan is the latest state to consider allowing students to replace required foreign language classes with computer coding courses. The state’s House of Representatives voted earlier this week to ...

A movement by parents and lawmakers to get computer coding classes to count toward foreign language credits in school hit a snag this month — but advocates aren't giving up. Sen. Jeremy Ring, a former ...

In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. By Oliver Whang Think of the words whirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...