Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2025 was “vibe coding,” a term that AI enthusiasts have coined to suggest that plain language will soon become the lingua franca of programmers in place of, ...

Last year, Collins Dictionary’s word of 2024 was “Brat”, based on the online phenomenon caused by Charli XCX’s mega-hit album. This year, their pick is similarly Very Online: they’ve chosen “vibe ...

Implement a Java program to determine the order of characters in an alien language, given a sorted dictionary of alien words. This is a graph + topological sorting problem. You are given a list of ...

The technology is legendary, but how and why Sun Microsystems eventually settled on the name 'Java' was always something of a mystery—even to those involved. When Time magazine called Java one of the ...

Merriam-Webster has added another new crop of food-related words to the dictionary, and the assortment ranges from “why wasn’t that added a zillion years ago?” to “what on earth is that?” In the ...

"Jia you" is a Mandarin Chinese expression used in cheers at sporting events and rallies or to encourage someone. In Cantonese, it's "ga yau". Now the English translation - "add oil" - has been ...

An open source application automates the process of downloading and displaying all of Wikipedia on your desktop, a large task that takes more than a day to complete. Dubbed Xowa, the software displays ...

While those of the Starbucks generation may almost think they discovered the drink, coffee, that enticing hot brew, has been part of everyday experience in Western society for a number of generations.