Microsoft has released “BASIC for the 6502 microprocessor version 1.1” on Github under license from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Almost half a century after Bill Gates created ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

For Richa Prasad, the wake-up call came at 30,000 feet. Despite having a "normal" BMI, the 27-year-old engineer was experiencing breathlessness and heart palpitations on a plane, symptoms that had ...

Embedr is an AI-powered Arduino-like IDE designed to simplify development for Arduino-compatible microcontrollers. It looks very similar to the Cursor code editor and uses Microsoft’s Monaco Editor ...

We love Arduino here at Hackaday; they’ve probably done more to make embedded programming accessible to more people than anything else in the history of the field. One thing the Arduino ecosystem is ...

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time. Ahead of ...

In a nostalgic nod to Microsoft’s origins, co-founder Bill Gates has released the source code for Altair BASIC, the software that marked the beginning of the tech giant’s journey. This release ...

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