Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over the years, driven by new technology. By Sheera Frenkel Tears of joy prevailed as the most-used emoji in 2021, ...

What exactly is Python and what is MicroPython? The major differences between both languages. Some use cases for each. As difficult as it is to imagine, the Python programming language made its ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

The widespread adoption of AI is creating a paradigm shift in the software engineering world. Python has quickly become the programming language of choice for AI development due to its usability, ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...