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Kotlin is the hero Android needs
On May 17th 2019 Google announced Kotlin as the officially supported language for Android, in a long awaited development. Find out more about this shift here.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram
Introducing new video messages and Telesco.pe, a video hosting for public channels.
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SketchRNN model released in Magenta
Sketch-RNN, a generative model for vector drawings, is now available in Magenta. For an overview of the model, see the Google Research blog fromApril 2017, ...
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One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
Today, the FCC voted on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal and replace net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. The verdict: to move forward with
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Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available
Today we are proud to announce that Heroku CI, a low-configuration test runner for unit and browser testing that is tightly integrated with Heroku...
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PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 10 is available for download. This …
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Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
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Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm
Written by Sergei Shevchenko and Adrian Nish BACKGROUND Since the release of the ETERNALBLUE exploit by ‘The Shadow Brokers’ last month se...
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Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Silicon Valley [audio]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/y-combinator/id1236907421] Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/m/I7pbd3gcjjeifbnm3wf7ag66ane?t=Y_Combinator] Stitcher [http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/y-combinator] RSS…
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Nim Programming Language v0.17.0 released
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.17.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting
Discovery Could Remove Hurdle to Producing Hydrogen from Water
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Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud
Posted by Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlowResearchers require enormous computational resources to train the machine learning (ML) models t...
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A Case of Stolen Source Code
Last week, for about three days, the macOS video transcoding app HandBrake was compromised . One of the two download servers for HandBrake was serving up a special malware-infested version of the app, that, when launched, would essentially give hackers remote control of your computer.
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JSON Feed
We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects…
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Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH
Oculus Research will present a paper on focal surface displays at the annual SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles July 30 – August 3. This groundbreaking work demonstrates the potential ability to improve image clarity and depth of focus in VR for a better, more natural visual experience.
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Tor Browser 7.0a4 is released
Tor Browser 7.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our...
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Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Robots that learn
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.