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Once-declining Java cements its lead in language popularity index

Last year's Java 8 release boosted the aging language, helping it open up a big lead over C
JavaScript rules the school, but C++ climbs in popularity

C++ is the biggest gainer in language popularity so far this year, but JavaScript remains stalwart
How workflow capabilities benefit continuous delivery environments
Meet Sirius, the open-source Siri clone that runs on Ubuntu

Sirius includes speech recognition, image recognition, and text recognition components
Mozilla unveils search tool tweaks in next week's Firefox 34

Along with its impending switch to Yahoo as the default search engine for Firefox, Mozilla will also change how users conduct searches in the browser.
Spliddit: Algorithms to divide the rent, stuff, or credit fairly between people

A new service, Spliddit, handles three specific fair division or "cake cutting" problems: Splitting rent, dividing goods, and sharing credit. It's based on serious mathematics ...

16 things you should know how to do with Siri

Ways to use Siri more - as you should!
Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy and Internet dominance

In one decade, Wikipedia has changed the way we access information on the Internet and participate in its creation
Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

Website providers are under increasing pressure to sort out their IPv6 strategy, analyst claims
Wikipedia loses editors: Crowdsourcing reality check?

The moral of the story: If a product is too hard or frustrating to use, or there are too many barriers to entry, people will ...
The 15 biggest Wikipedia blunders

David Beckham was a Chinese goalkeeper in the 18th century
Four online alternatives to Microsoft Encarta

Here's a list of four other places you can learn about Ghandi, the Revolutionary War, the Eiffel Tower, and other encyclopedic subjects