I like to watch long-term technology and business trends and watch as they shape the products and services that I get to use and to write about. As I was preparing to write today’s post, three such trends came to mind: Moore’s Law – Coined in 1965, Moore’s Law postulates that the number of transistors […]
The Scala 2.12 compiler has been completely overhauled to make use of the new VM features available in Java 8:
We are excited to announce the preview release of a new, advanced code optimizer for the Visual C++ compiler backend. It provides many improvements for
Elene first lit up the path toward coding for her sisters Mari and Ani. We learn how the sisters have achieved so much at such a young age.
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
Today, Jason Weber shared a post on the Windows Experience Blog demonstrating the power efficiency of Microsoft Edge over other popular browsers on Windows 10. With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we are hard at work pushing the envelope further, engineering Microsoft Edge to last even longer with typical…
Learn more about what’s new at Cognito, and what’s new in the world of identity verification, risk management, and compliance regulations.
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Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem. If you’ve bought a digital book, album, or movie, you should be able to do what you want with it—whether that’s enjoying it wherever you want to, or making it more accessible by changing the font size or...
We (along with researchers from Berkeley and Stanford) are co-authors on today’s paper led by Google Brain researchers, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. The paper explores many research problems around ensuring that modern machine learning systems operate as intended.
We're pleased to announce the release of PyPy3 v5.5.0. Coming four months after PyPy3.3 v5.2, it improves compatibility with Python 3.3 (3.3...
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
Our goal with Let’s Encrypt is to get the Web to 100% HTTPS. We’d like to give a quick progress update. Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of those are active, meaning unexpired and unrevoked. Our…
We discovered a major security flaw in the iOS 10 backup protection mechanism. This security flaw allowed us developing a new attack that is able to bypass cert
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.
Dolphin 5.0 Release Video The long awaited Dolphin 5.0 release is finally here! After nearly a year of bug-hunting and handling the release process, everything has come together for our biggest release yet! The three previous releases followed a very distinct pattern: sacrifice performance, hacks, and features in…
Now when you search on your mobile device, you’ll see a label that indicates which sites have pages that are ready to load lightning fast.
