GitHub has announced it is “sunsetting,” aka killing off, its popular Atom text editor with a view to replacing it with Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code).
GitHub’s Atom Reaches A Million Users
GitHub announced on Monday that Atom, its hackable text editor, has reached a million active users. “That’s three times the number of active users we had under a year ago at the one-year anniversary of Atom becoming completely open source,”…
Atom Bomb Almost Detonated Over NC in 1961
According to a newly declassified document published on Saturday, two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1961. The incident occurred when a B-52 bomber carrying the weapons ripped in half mid-flight on January 23, during the…
Intel Could be Ditching Atom Branding [RUMOR]
A new report from Taiwanese news outlet DigiTimes states that Intel is “considering” ditching the Atom brand name. The publication’s unnamed sources “from the upstream supply chain” stated that the decision may be based on the growing impression of Atom…
Intel Introduces Low-Power Server-Class Atom Processor
The Intel Atom processor is the company’s ticket into the lucrative tablet and smartphone market. It’s slowly working its way into more mobile devices, but Intel will now offer its low-power processing solution to servers as well. Intel announced today…
Listen To What An Atom Bomb Really Sounds Like
I’m pretty sure that we’ve all seen an atom bomb explosion by now. The mushroom cloud is engrained into the general consciousness as something that is to be feared. I’m sure we all know what an atom bomb sounds like…
Intel Makes Android-Atom Pairing Possible
Smartphones based on Intel’s Atom processor – which is the company’s smallest and least power-hungry chip – will now be able to run Android. An Intel official announced the step forward this morning, and hinted that some new devices will be developed as a result of this move, too.