From Java and ActiveX to Flash, Houdini, and Direct3D, these 1996 releases shaped how we build apps, sites, and games today.

MiniMax Unveils M2.1 to Bring Multilingual Programming Gains to Open AI Models Your email has been sent Chinese AI startup’s release is a major update to its open-source model series, aimed at ...

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...

Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...

Rumors say Google will release Gemini 3.0 on October 22, as the next-generation frontier AI model has been in testing for a while. It's unclear what Gemini 3.0 will have to offer, but it's easy to ...

Apple has officially rolled out iOS 26.0.1, a targeted update designed to address critical bugs, enhance security, and improve overall device performance. If you own an iPhone 17 or iPhone Air and ...