James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect. Gosling is a ...

JetBrains, the Prague-based maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA, has introduced a new JVM-targeted programming language. Code named "Kotlin," it's a statically-typed language ...

There is a long-running legal battle between Oracle and Google over the use of Java, an Oracle product, in Android. In the latest court filing, Oracle is shooting for the moon: $9.3 billion in ...

Oracle will release today 128 fixes for security vulnerabilities that affect "hundreds" of its products. The software giant and Java maker said in a pre-release announcement today that four of the ...