A 17-year-old student has developed TRASHbot, an AI-powered robot designed to tackle litter in public spaces. This autonomous ...

In the last few years, waste-management billionaire Patrick Dovigi has become one of the biggest art collectors on the scene.

Nine Java Enhancement Proposals make the final cut as OpenJDK shifts from feature development to bug fixing ahead of a September release.

DENPASAR/JAKARTA: With its sandy beaches and lush paddy fields, Bali has long been sold as Indonesia’s picture-perfect island paradise. But to locals, especially those living in southern Bali, their ...

A door-to-door waste collector pushes his cart in front of a house in Jakarta Indonesia, on May 4. BAY ISMOYO/AFP Jakarta now requires households to sort their trash for composting and recycling, and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Workers sorting waste on April 17, 2026, at the Tahura integrated waste processing facility in Denpasar, Bali. The local administration has continued to increase the facility’s processing capacity, ...

In Muncar, on the coast of East Java, Indonesia, fishers still make their living the traditional way, launching from the shore in the hand-painted boats they have used for generations. But that ...

Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most ...

Abstract: Modern managed language runtimes (e.g., Java, Go and C#) rely on garbage collection (GC) mechanisms to automatically allocate and reclaim in-memory objects. The efficiency of GC ...

WebAssembly’s garbage collection extension makes it easier to run languages like Java on the front end. Could it be the start of a new era in web development? JavaScript is the clear choice for ...