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Think of Java, and chances are that the megacity of Jakarta – the capital of Indonesia – will spring to mind. But for those interested in the island's traditional culture, a smaller city beckons, said ...

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A group of humanity’s predecessors known as Homo erectus had reached eastern Asia by 1.5 million years ago and inhabited the region until about 1.0 million years ago, a new investigation finds. The ...

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Ancient humans took hundreds of thousands of years to make the journey from mainland Eurasia to Indonesia, according to a new dating study, perhaps reaching Java half a million years later than we ...

Java is not the language it used to be, and that is mostly a good thing. Here are eleven ways Java is evolving to meet the challenges of the future. Is Java ancient yet? The kind of programming ...