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"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"

They try to get away with paying the hobbits half wages

Self-contained devices, such as autonomous vehicles, drones and IoT devices, will push out cloud services as more computing moves to the edge, say venture capitalists.

Microsoft’s approach to mixed reality has, up until now, been referred to as “Windows Holographic.” The name made sense as a descriptor of Microsoft’s approach towards holograms in their headsets, but it seems like the company had a different idea about how to move forward.

Artificial intelligence startup Ozlo thinks it has a solution for situations where virtual assistants fail in their responses: Getting the bots to ask questions back.

Microsoft is ready to open up the preview of its Cortana Skills Kit. Meanwhile, Amazon developers already have published 10,000 Alexa skills.

Survey by Atlassian finds wide worker expectbations of working alongside AI software and discomfort with the prospect.

While its 'savior of the global economy' status may be overblown, IoT is further along at this point in its lifecycle than big data ever was.

"Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled."

When asked to comment, one researcher replied, "Mwahahaha"

Just beware the Orcs

I bet no one has a patent on flint tools. Ogg will be rich!

Try it before they cancel it

"We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time." Ya think?

I could code without Google, but why would I?

Because they really just wanted C?

"It's all just a little bit of history repeating"

Coding comes in like a lion

In case you're looking for those droids

Hell is other people's code

When developers think of building Xamarin apps for Apple devices, they often think of iPhone and iPad, but you can also build apps for macOS.

Unlike other runtimes, NativeScript exposes 100% of the underlying native APIs to JavaScript, so developers can do anything in NativeScript that is possible in a traditional native iOS or Android app.

Height is often overlooked in responsive design. On mobile, pages can get pretty long. Should we address this?

As the fruits of a relationship forged last May, Apple and SAP will offer developer tools and training to build iOS apps for the enterprise.