Probably not JavaScript

Geoff Brumfiel reports: an AI application called AlphaGo has mastered the game of go to the point of defeating a European champion. I can't resist the obvious question: Since it's a Google project, what language is AlphaGo written in?

Poop bot

Melody Kramer talks to Sara Simon, who wrote a Twitter bot to mirror sewage spill reports in Vermont for Vermont Public Radio.

49

The primality of 2^74207281-1 was recently announced, making it the 49th known Mersenne prime.

ᔥ The Endeavour

Sherborn

Using regular expressions to crack the inconsistencies of a century-old bibliography and bring an important compendium of zoological taxonomy into the semantic web: Suzanne C. Pilsk et al., "Unlocking Index Animalium: From paper slips to bytes and bits."

Circling the sqare

C. Y. Gopinath redesigns the keypad for a calculator.

Credit where credit is due

Dalmeet Singh Chawla introduces Depsy, a service that seeks to measure the contributions made by researchers to the body of software that powers science.