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InfluxDB clustering is key for high availability and monetization. Clustering and high availability functionality will be available as part of our Influx Enterprise offering. Get a crash course on this topic and also read the newer version as well as u...
Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers.
I’m happy to announce that today we’re releasing Qubes OS 3.1! The major new architectural feature of this release has been the introduction of the Qubes Management infrastructure, which is based on the popular Salt management software. In Qubes 3.1, this management stack makes it possi...
PyPy 5.0 We have released PyPy 5.0, about three months after PyPy 4.0.1. We encourage all users of PyPy to update to this version. You ...
In 2015 we migrated Quizlet from our legacy host to a large cloud provider. AWS is the default choice for most companies, but after comparing the options, we went with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a summary of our analysis.
Welcome to the 3rd and last part about current proposals for C++17 and beyond. In the last part, there was an overview on the current Technical Specifications, most likely to move into C++ after C++17 . The full proposal listing of 2016 sorted by subgroups contains many more proposals then I can cover.
If there were no bloated ads, some top websites would load up to 90% faster. Today we introduce Opera's ad-blocking feature.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute, with colleagues in China, have developed a new, regenerative medicine approach to remove congenital cataracts in infants, permitting remaining stem cells to regrow functional lenses.
How Web Scraping is Revealing Lobbying and Corruption in Peru - Discover how web scraping is shedding light on lobbying and corruption issues in Peru.
One of the United States government's priorities in Internet policy is encapsulated by a term that's recently been making the rounds; the "free flow of information." It appears almost every time U.S. officials describe how they intend to protect the free and open Internet, especially when it comes...
We’re excited to announce that we're joining the Open Compute Project (OCP) to help drive standardization in IT infrastructure. More specifically, Google will contribute a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into our data centers.
Posted by Jon Shlens, Senior Research ScientistAt the end of last year we released code that allows a user to classify images with TensorFlow model...
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Update: Added clarification that only the Let’s Encrypt client software is changing its name and host. The Let’s Encrypt certificate authority and associated services are not changing names or relocating. Over the next few months the Let’s Encrypt client software will transition to a new name, soon to be announced…
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Game 5 - March 15, 2016After a loss in Game 4, and a move early on that looked like a mistake, but could have been a creative and effective new move, AlphaGo won Game 5 …
“We have enormous computing power in the US government, but we need to be able to bring it to bear without the phone killing itself.” – FBI Director James Comey, March 1 , 2016.
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.8. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development?
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
Scientists report that amino acids, not sugar, supply most building blocks for cancerous tumor cells. The findings offer a new way to look at cancer cell metabolism, a field that may yield new treatments.
