GitHub's Copilot is an AI-based, pair-programming service. Its machine learning model raises a number of questions. Open source experts weigh in.

Earlier this month, Armin Ronacher, a prominent open-source developer, was experimenting with a new code-generating tool from GitHub called Copilot when it began to produce a curiously familiar ...

Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues.

Background: GitHub is the defacto repository for open-source code in the world. It’s like a combination of YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, but for programmers and the codes they produce.

Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its hugely popular open-source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, which its creator, Microsoft technical fellow Erich ...

Learn how to use GitHub Spark to create web apps. GitHub Spark is an AI-powered app builder that lets you develop full-stack ...

GitHub Spark, unveiled by Microsoft, empowers users to create and deploy full-stack applications using natural language, even without coding expertise. Currently in public preview for Copilot Pro+ ...

GitHub frames this new tool as an AI pair programmer. The model behind GitHub Copilot has been trained on billions of lines of code — many of them are hosted and available publicly on GitHub itself.

GitHub’s new Copilot tool has learned from public code online, but there isn’t a clear answer as to whether it’s legal. A future court decision could impact how AI algorithms learn from the ...