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How PayPal Is Flipping the (Java) Script

By switching to JavaScript from Java, PayPal proved that making the change can lead a company to quicker development cycles with fewer people, less coding, and less file usage. Read more to see the reasons why PayPal's leap perfectly identifies the benefits of JavaScript over Java.

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Early August Hacking News Roundup

In this roundup of interesting hacking news, find out about the FBI's hacking techniques to thwart potential criminals. Also, see how an artist-hacker has successfully tampered with Teddy Ruxpin dolls and created something rather unsettling.

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Jonathan Vanian
Fear Not, Google Reader Fans: A Coder Developed an Open-Source Clone

On the news that Google Reader, the aggregator of choice for many people's RSS feeds, was retiring, one coder took matters into his own hands and created a veritable clone. He kept the UI basic, posted his code publicly, and invited anyone who'd like to run it to do so—in true open-source fashion.

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Beth Romanik
Google+ Provides Mobile Content Recommendations

Google has launched a mobile content recommendation service powered by Google+. When a reader is done with one of their stories, publishers, by adding one line of JavaScript, can have a widget pop up that will recommend more content—from articles by the same author to content G+ friends are sharing.

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Beth Romanik
Amazon Web Services Adds Node.js SDK to Developers’ Options

Amazon Web Services released an SDK for Node.js, providing developers with a JavaScript library to build applications for AWS services. Node.js has been gaining momentum and popularity among programmers, and AWS' addition of the SDK gives developers another choice when building for its cloud.

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Beth Romanik
Put Down the Textbooks: Video Games Now Teaching How to Code

Learning to code is finally starting to take off with younger kids in the United States, and we may have video games to thank for it. Learn how companies are connecting with kids to teach them valuable skills while they're having fun doing what they love best—playing.

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Noel Wurst
JavaScript's Popularity in Mobile Development Continues to Rise

Continuing its language domination in the mobile app development world, JavaScript can now be used to update native iOS and Android apps thanks to a new hybrid model on the market. JavaScript remains a top programming language, and it doesn't look like the trend will change any time soon.

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Beth Romanik
ISP Injects Ads into Paying Subscribers’ Web Content

Banner ads were showing up along the bottom of popular websites such as Bing, Apple, eBay and Amazon. It turns out the cable operator was allowing an outside company to inject the ads into the pages. What does it mean if webpage requests are vulnerable to code inserted by a third party?

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Beth Romanik