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Is PHP Declining In Popularity? 94
Rust Survey Finds Linux and VS Code Users, More WebAssembly Targeting 40
Covid Death Toll in US Likely 16% Higher Than Official Tally, Study Says 311
What Were Slashdot's Top 10 Stories of 2023? 22
The Wealthiest Californians are Leaving the State, Hurting the Economy, Statistics Confirm 221
Go Programmers Surveyed: Most Use Linux or MacOS 29
Fewer People Moving in California Are Moving Into the State Than Anywhere Else 265
Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE's Programming Language Popularity Index 52
79% of Developers are At Least Considering a New Job, Survey Finds 36
Why Is California's Population Falling? Housing Costs 286
Working From Home 'A Permanent Shift', New US Data Suggests 149
Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings 28
Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet 284
Despite Layoffs, Open Source and Linux Skills are Still in Demand 36
Nate Silver To Leave FiveThirtyEight 70
C Rival 'Zig' Cracks Tiobe Index Top 50, Go Remains in Top 10 167
Stack Overflow Survey Finds Most-Proven Technologies: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning 70
Can Stack Overflow's Survey Predict Next Year's Most Loved Programming Language? 46
83% of GNOME Users Installed Extensions, Survey Shows 86
Automation Caused More than Half America's Income Inequality Since 1980, Study Claims 287
TIOBE Calculates C++, C, and Python Rose the Most in Popularity in 2022 84
Systemd's Growth Over 2022 236
Linux Foundation's 'AgStack Project' Plans First Dataset of the World's Agricultural Field Boundaries 19
Stack Overflow Survey Finds 74% of Developers are 'Actively' Looking or 'Open to' a New Job 54
JavaScript Still Tops Python and Java in RedMonk's Latest Rankings, While Go and TypeScript Rise 54
Study Finds Drinking Before Age 40 Has No Health Benefits, Only Risks 102
Developer Survey: JavaScript and Python Reign, but Rust is Rising 60
California's Population Declined in Pandemic's Second Year 109
Incomplete Data May Mask an Increase in US Covid Cases, But Infection Counts De-Emphasized 140
Can Mapping Differences in Cancer Rates Help Pinpoint Environmental Factors? 25
TIOBE Announces that the Programming Language of the Year Was Python 90
2021 'Web Almanac' Research Finds Lots of CSS, JavaScript, jQuery - and Not Much WebAssembly 67
Is Python About to Become the Most Popular Programming Language? 176
Study of 61,000 Microsoft Employees Finds Remote Work Threatened Productivity and Innovation 140
'Silent Majority' of Americans Don't Want to Work Remotely Full-Time 277
When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death 122
New Study: Only 33% Would Opt For Immortality 211
Will Labor Shortages Give Workers More Power? 174
Florida's Government May Have Ignored and Withheld Data About Covid-19 Cases 269
America's Suicide Rate Declined in 2020 - Despite Lockdowns 126
C Passed Java to Take #1 Spot on TIOBE's Index 102
Are We Overestimating the Number of COBOL Transactions Each Day? 90
Report: PHP, C++, Java, and .NET Applications are the Most Frequently Flawed 92
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day 236
Python Beats Java Again in New GitHub Annual Report 54
Millions of Americans Plan to Relocate Thanks to Telework, Survey Finds 129
51% of Developers Say They're Managing 100 Times More Code Than a Decade Ago 99
The World's Largest Concentrations of Java Programmers are in Asia and Germany 34
Do Movie Ratings on 'Rotten Tomatoes' Really Affect a Movie's Box Office? 101
1.5% of All Americans Have Been Infected With Coronavirus - 5 Million Cases 379
Python Overtakes Java in New Language Popularity Ranking, As Rust Reaches Top 20 91
Python 'Dominates' IEEE Spectrum's 2020 List of Top Programming Languages 155
Coronavirus Infection Rates: 10 US States Higher Than Any Country in the World 355
What Happened When Microsoft Analyzed Its Own Remote Work Patterns? 79
TIOBE's Surprisingly Popular Programming Languages: R, Go, Perl, Scratch, Rust, and Visual Basic 6 101
Stanford Economist Predicts Working-From-Home Continues, City Centers Decline 177
Moderate Drinking May Improve Cognitive Health for Older Adults, Study Says 129
Python Overtakes Java? JetBrains Releases 'State of Developer Ecosystem' Survey 67
IPv6 Adoption Hits 32%. Will Stats Show How Many Returned to the Office? 110
As Coronavirus Hospitalizations Rise in the US, Many States Hide Their Data 167
With Highway Traffic Down, Are Reckless Drivers Still Increasing Highway Fatalities? 157
America's CDC and 11 States Erroneously Conflated Two Kinds of Coronavirus Tests 118
Public Release of Newest Imperial College Report for the UK Delayed By 'Politicized Nature' of Lockdown Debate 37
New Imperial College Research Estimates Coronavirus Still Spreading Uncontrolled in 24 US States 197
Even After the Pandemic, 43% Say They'll Want to Work Remotely More Often 64
What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source 64
Aggregate Data From Connected Scales Shows Minimal Weight Gains During Lockdowns 55
America Now Has One-Third of the World's Confirmed Coronavirus Cases 493
Fewer Car Accidents From Sheltering in Place Saved California $1B 90
Sheltering in Place Works: New Statistics Show Fewer COVID-19 Hospitalizations In New York, California 247
America Now Has Most COVID-19 Deaths in the World -- 20% of All Fatalities 631
Some Researchers are Trying Mass Testing for Covid-19 Antibodies 43
Will Coronavirus Lockdowns Bring a Drop in Air-Pollution Related Deaths? 117
New Map Tries to Track Progress In Curbing the Spread of COVID-19 26
Study Finds High Demand for Go and AR/VR Programmers, While Python Remains Favorite Language 75
Study Finds More Younger Adults are Being Diagnosed With Alzheimer's 76
70% of Americans Hate Daylight Saving Time 231
Ubuntu vs Windows 10: Performance Tests on a Walmart Laptop 147
Move Over, Silicon Valley: St. Louis, Atlanta, Small Cities Gaining Tech Jobs 72
Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies 163
2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says TIOBE 106
Python Finally Overtakes Java on GitHub 61
Does The Green Economy Create More Jobs Than The Fossil Fuel Industry? 206
New iPhone Feature Can Send Unknown Callers To Voicemail Automatically 104
Extreme Weather Events This Decade Have Cost America $750B 151
'It's Not You. Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive' 145
Optimism Increases Lifespan By 11-15%, New Study Finds 76
Some of the World's Most-Cited Scientists Have a Secret That's Just Been Exposed 88
Do Personality Tests Give Companies Too Much Power? 155
28% of Delivery Drivers Have Tasted Your Food, Survey Finds 165
London Police's Face Recognition System Gets It Wrong 81 Percent of the Time 55
Gut Bacteria-Autism Link May Just Be Misinterpreted Data From a Confusing GUI 83
Facebook Usage Has Collapsed After Privacy Scandals, Data Shows 109
7,000 Developers Report Their Top Languages: Java, JavaScript, and Python 194
Python Passes C++ on TIOBE Index, Predicted To Pass C and Java 266
10% of Twitter Users Create 80% of the Tweets 67
We're All Being Judged By a Secret 'Trustworthiness' Score 135
Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? 170
Automation Threatens 1.5 Million Workers In Britain, Says ONS 125
Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? 330
Is Statistical Significance Significant? 184
Workplace Theft Is On the Rise 328
Misleading Results From Widely-Used Machine-Learning Data Analysis Techniques 23
83% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Morally Wrong 219
Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees 117
Even More Americans Have Stopped Biking To Work 275
2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled 162
Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids' Brains, NIH Study Shows 94
YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old 78
Is Visual Basic .NET More Popular Than JavaScript? 100
Microsoft's TypeScript Dominates In 'State of JavaScript 2018' Report 68
GitHub's Four Most Popular Programming Languages Remain: JavaScript, Java, Python, and PHP 144
1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud 95
Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages 62
Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame 151
Python Displaces C++ In TIOBE Index Top 3 154
'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced 70
30% of America's Student Loan Borrowers Can't Keep Up After Six Years 287
'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' 180
Cryptocurrency Markets Lost $18 Billion Overnight 99
Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector 94
Only 39 Percent of Viewers Choose Live TV As Their Default Option, Says Study 96
All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World 367
US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong 179
LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching 85
Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry 232
Survey: JavaScript is the Most-Used Language, But Java is the Most Popular 136
Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour 271
Nearly Half of Parents Worry Their Child Is Addicted To Mobile Devices, Study Finds 129
Facebook Hired a Full-Time Pollster To Monitor Zuckerberg's Approval Ratings 109
Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? 161
Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' 165
C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' 243
The Most Productive Days and Times In 2017 31
Apple's iPhones Were the Best-Selling Tech Product of 2017 88
Movie Ticket Sales Hit A 22-Year Low in 2017 162
Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017 35
The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds 410
Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? 357
Google Reveals the Most-Trending Searches of 2017 49
Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined? 152
'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript 89
No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity 187
9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' 96
Carbon-Emitting Soil Could Speed Global Warming, Warns 26-Year Study 203
Does Online Crowdfunding Actually Reward Innovation? 93
Sedentary Lifestyle Study Called 'A Raging Dumpster Fire' 153
More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting 350
Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? 254
App Developers Should Charge More If They Want People To Buy Subscriptions, Suggests Report 50
HackerRank Tries To Calculate Which US States Have The Best Developers 66
Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? 315
Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds 223
Do Kill Switches Deter Cellphone Theft? 97
IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language 372
Open Source Contributions More Important Than Tabs Vs Spaces For Salary 164
EternalBlue Vulnerability Scanner Finds Exposed Hosts Worldwide 38
In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country 996
While Chrome Dominates, Microsoft Edge Struggles To Attract New Users 172
Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? 253
Phoronix Announces '2017 Linux Laptop Survey' 66
Real Estate Firm Identifies America's 'Top 25 Tech Cities' 91
New Threat To Traditional Sports Leagues: Millennials Prefer Watching eSports 189
Are There More Developers Than We Think? 191
New Evidence of a Decline In Electricity Use By U.S. Households 318
Swarm AI Spectacularly Fails To Predict Kentucky Derby Winners A Second Time 83
As Print Surges, Ebook Sales Plunge Nearly 20% 206
Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software 96
Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night 99
88% Of Medical 'Second Opinions' Give A Different Diagnosis - And So Do Some AI 74
Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy 149
Salary-Comparing Survey Identifies Top-Paid Developers, Discovers North America Pays Better 267
Stack Overflow Reveals Results From 'Largest Developer Survey Ever Conducted' 139
America's Most Affordable Cities For Tech Workers: Seattle, Austin, and Pittsburgh 127
RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python 125
Streaming TV Sites Now Have More Subscribers Than Cable TV 47
94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights 238
34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia 174
LinuxQuestions Users Choose Their Favorite Distro: Slackware 145
GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages 149
Which US Cities Have The Worst Malware Infection Rates? 52
Massive Study Links IP Addresses Per Capita To GDP 64
Kaspersky Lab Promises New Backup Tool To Help Unhappy Social Media Users Quit 54
Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley 283
Solar Energy Now Employs More Americans Than Oil, Coal and Gas Combined 364
Mozilla Releases New Open Source 'Internet Health Report' 69
Newest Tesla Autopilot Data Shows A 40% Drop in Crashes 167
Node.js's npm Is Now The Largest Package Registry in the World 133
Comcast Remains America's Most-Hated Company, Survey Finds 111
Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? 286
Apple Could Finally Sell More Devices Than Microsoft In 2017 98
Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency 104
Apple's Share of PC Users Drops To A Five-Year Low 228
Wikipedia Announces Their Most Viewed Articles Of 2016 65
Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2016 35
Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps 37
Apple Tops Holiday Sales With 44 Percent of All New Device Activations 188
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices 181
Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters 47
Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead 145
Microsoft Survey Shows Negative Online Interactions Affect People In Real Life 60
Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales 70
Google's Go Language Surges In Popularity 252
Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing 55
iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life 292
Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs 159
Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? 401
Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded 81
Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010 47
Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History 412
New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix 61
Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds 219
8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze 209
C Isn't The Most Popular Programming Language, JavaScript Is 241
Cisco Finds $34 Million Ransomware Industry 18
Uber Doesn't Decrease Drunk Driving, Finds New Study 72
A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline 321
TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly 348
New York Falls and Seattle Rises on 'America's Top Tech Cities' List 100
Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% 80
Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share 249
'Linux vs Windows' Challenge: Phoronix Tests Popular Games 141
Crypto Ransomware Attacks Have Jumped 500% In The Last Year 36
Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI 151
Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test 819
Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? 655
Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% 383
How Big Data Creates False Confidence 69
40% of Silicon Valley's Profits (But Not Sales) Came from Apple 147
IBM Researchers Propose Device To Dramatically Speed Up Neural-Net Learning 87
Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study 146
Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All 310
More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey 532
Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous 400
Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% 819
This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record 446
Fighting Food Poisoning In Las Vegas With Machine Learning 59
MIT's Eyebrowse To Rank and Review Internet Sites, While Retaining Privacy 28
Tracking Caucusgoers By Their Cell Phones 43
Hopkins Study Finds Popular Blood Pressure App Wildly Inaccurate 50
Google-Backed SSD Endurance Research Shows MLC Flash As Reliable As SLC 62
Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents 309
Many Surveys, About One In Five, May Contain Fraudulent Data 115
Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma 428
Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained 213
In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years 520
Valve Releases SteamVR Perf Test To Measure Your PC 97
Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze 182
Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor 335
IRS Warns Of 400% Flood In Phishing and Malware This Tax Year Alone 42

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