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Electron 11.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 87, V8 8.7, and Node.js 12.18.3. We've added support for Apple silicon, and general improvements. Read below for more details!
Today we're proud to release TypeScript 4.1! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding syntax for type
At rOpenSci, we encourage R package developers to take advantage of Continuous Integration services to automatically check the package on different platforms, with different versions of R. The rOpenSci dev guide dedicates chapter 2 to the topic of Continuous Integration Best Practices, and recommends a few common CI…
Great news for everyone concerned about the Flash end of life planned for end of 2020: The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in our software collection. In the early 1990s, web browsers were incredibly powerful compared to what came before - with simple files written in HTML that could…
Many developers believe S3 is the "end of file system history". It is impossible to build a file/object storage system on AWS that can compete with S3...
COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.
We're crowdsourcing ideas and recommendations to help us enhance the privacy and security benefits of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for users around the world
Posted by Andeep Singh Toor, Stadia Software Engineer and Fred Bertsch, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Creating art for digital vid...
Alan Dean Foster and SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal discuss the non-payment by Disney of several contracts for works including multiple Star Wars and Aliens novelizations.
The new Google Pay is a safe, simple, and helpful way to pay and manage your money, giving a clear picture of your spending and savings.
Full text of the letter from 200 Facebook content moderators.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
SC20—NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® A100 80GB GPU — the latest innovation powering the NVIDIA HGX™ AI supercomputing platform — with twice the memory of its predecessor, providing researchers and engineers unprecedented speed and performance to unlock the next wave of AI and scientific breakthroughs.
Censored Planet by salvey on Sketchfab The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of the world’s freest countries are not safe from internet censorship. A University of Michigan team used Censored Planet, an automated censorship tracking syste
The Wikipedia founder explains how the online encyclopedia will maintain objectivity in polarizing times.
Accelerating TensorFlow 2 performance on Mac
Today we're finally releasing Tailwind CSS v2.0, including an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and tons more!
We are committed to advancing the future of design within our communities, among our members, in small businesses and corporations, in educational institutions, and for individuals. Please use this community resource hub as a guide to some of the most critical needs our community faces today, and will face in the…
In their quest to understand how the immune system is implicated in alcohol use disorder, Scripps Research scientists have found a potential path for treatment.
Why I chose Electron.js over native macOS and Windows apps to build my side project.
New developer program accelerates innovation and helps small businesses and independent developers propel their businesses forward on the App Store.
Welcome to this month’s community update! We’ve got exciting news to share, but before I proceed in doing so I’d like to thank Gamiee, JF, and PizzaLovingNerd for contributing to this blog entry and Clover for the final edits and proof-reading. As the PINE64 device-family grows larger and becomes more diverse, I find…
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I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs. A little ironic when you consider I quit my job building IBM Db2 to work on CockroachDB.
Servo has left the Mozilla nest.
