From InfoWorld: Apple's new Swift language, featuring modern-day development capabilities for building OS X and iOS applications, is likely to find swift, high placement in assessments of programming language popularity.

Both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes already have plans to accommodate Swift. "A...

From PC World: Netflix defended its error messages to customers that blamed Verizon Communications’ network, despite a cease-and-desist notice from the broadband service provider.

In a reply to Verizon, Netflix’s General Counsel David Hyman wrote on Monday that the message cited by Verizon merely...

From CNET: The Sony set-top box that allowed gamers to play PlayStation Vita games on their televisions and launched last year in Japan is heading to North America.

That device, formerly known as the PlayStation Vita TV and now known as the PlayStation TV, is headed to the US and Canada later this...

From DailyTech: Fans of the "Halo" video game franchise received some good news at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) -- a high-definition makeover for nearly the entire library of franchise titles.

New Xbox chief Phil Spencer told assembled gaming fans on Monday:

Today we're dedicating...

From InfoWorld: Google has unseated rival Microsoft as the leading browser maker in the U.S. for the first time, Adobe said last week, citing data from its analytics platform. The rise in Google's domestic fortunes followed Microsoft's reduction to second fiddle worldwide in May 2013.

According to...

From PC World: We're still waiting on Motorola to officially out the Moto X+1, which is expected to launch in late summer or early fall. In the meantime, however, the company has quietly introduced a 64GB version of the company's current flagship device, the Moto X, for $450 without a contract...

From CNET: It wasn't Siri, nor a souped-up Scarlett Johansson.

However, it seems that artificial intelligence has gone even further toward a time when it will fool us that it's just like us.

A Russian-based team is said to be the first to create a program that passed the Turing Test. Named after...

From DailyTech: As promised, Microsoft is today opening up sales of its Xbox One console that isn’t bundled with the Kinect camera accessory. First announced back in mid-May, the Kinect-less console won’t hit your wallet as hard thanks to its price tag of $399 ($100 less than the Xbox One/Kinect...