April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

Popularity consolidated in the top 20 programming languages in April, according to TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen. C overtook Java for the number three spot between March and April. Key takeaways from the April TIOBE Index rankings: SQL continues to fall as it has done over the last few months, dropping to the number 10 … Read more

Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole – NASA Science

Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole – NASA Science

Radio data from February, April, and May 2024 reveals what appear to be jets of ionized gas, or plasma, extending from either side of the black hole, with a total size of about half a light-year. Astronomers have long puzzled over why only a fraction of monster black holes produce powerful plasma jets, and these … Read more

Taylor Swift on Lady Gaga’s pregnancy rumours: She doesn’t owe anyone explanation

Taylor Swift on Lady Gaga’s pregnancy rumours: She doesn’t owe anyone explanation

Taylor Swift expressed her support to Lady Gaga who had to post a TikTok video clarifying rumours about her pregnancy. Swift called the rumours ‘invasive’ and ‘irresponsible to comment on a woman’s body’. Over the weekend, rumours about Lady Gaga being pregnant did the rounds on the internet after a few photos of her surfaced. … Read more

NASA’s Swift Temporarily Suspends Science Operations

NASA’s Swift Temporarily Suspends Science Operations

Swift, illustrated here, is a collaboration between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Penn State in University Park, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems in Dulles, Virginia. Other partners include the University of Leicester and Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, Brera Observatory in … Read more

When Dead Stars Collide! – NASA Science

When Dead Stars Collide! – NASA Science

After that initial burst of gamma rays, the debris from the explosion continued to glow, fading as it expanded outward. Our Swift, Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer telescopes, along with a number of ground-based observatories, were poised to look at this afterglow from the explosion in ultraviolet, optical, X-ray, and infrared light. Such coordination between satellites … Read more

Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT an opportunity for China to internationalise RMB

Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT an opportunity for China to internationalise RMB

Economic sanctions have double-edged impact, partly negative and partly positive as the sanctioned countries re-invent and adjust their financial system to new realities to keep going its international transactions and payments. China has helped Russia to use Renminbi based payments for its international payments in view of Russia’s exclusion from Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial … Read more

What does sanctions on Russian Central Bank mean?

What does sanctions on Russian Central Bank mean?

President Biden and the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom decided to take further measures to isolate Russia from the global financial system and the global economy by imposing among the rare of the sanctions on Russia’s central bank. ET outlines its implication on global financial system including India … Read more