The growth of container usage has created new challenges for DevOps teams, which is why Black Duck Software announced today that it will be adding container-scanning capabilities to its Hub software. This addition will help DevOps teams map open-source security vulnerabilities for applications. It will also allow them to map Linux distributions and other software … continue reading
iOS 9.3 has been released by Apple, and with it comes new features that focus on education with technology. Apple has included on its website an education section, specifically to break down the changes the update will bring. New elements in iOS include a photo ID feature that can assign shared devices to students quickly, … continue reading
Databricks has introduced Spark Datasets, an extension of the DataFrames API that provides a type-safe, object-oriented programming interface. Spark 1.6 includes an API preview of Datasets, and they will be a development focus for the next several versions of Spark. Databricks was founded out of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of Apache Spark, and … continue reading
Lenovo is killing the flip-phone star. The Chinese smartphone and laptop company, which acquired Motorola in 2014, is slowly ending that brand, according to an Android Central report. With the Internet of Things moving forward, remembrance of the days of the flip-phone shows how far smartphones and mobile devices have come. Motorola is considered to … continue reading
In 1997, the first title of the series Age of Empires, a PC game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios, was released. Critics say that it influenced other RTS (real time strategy) games like Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and Empire Earth. The timeline of release dates for the game stretches from the … continue reading
RJ Murdok spends his days studying Linux and contributing to bug reports, and he’s only 15 years old. Recently, he received a Teens-in-Training scholarship from the Linux Foundation. In the past five years, the Foundation’s Training Scholarship Program has awarded 34 scholarships totaling more than US$100,000 in free training to students and professionals. Murdok, who … continue reading
Microsoft is partnering with automotive companies as a way to move its software onto vehicles. Today at the International CES 2016 in Las Vegas, automotive and infotainment companies like HARMAN, IAV, Nissan and Volvo announced that they will partner with Microsoft to bring cars into the mobile and cloud world, and to incorporate Microsoft software … continue reading
Remember the character Jarvis (Just a Rather Very Intelligent System) from Marvel’s “Iron Man”? Tony Stark’s AI butler could be coming to the home of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, because his 2016 agenda includes building a simple artificial intelligence assistant. He wants to explore the technology as it exists now, and invent something he can … continue reading
There’s a new tool designed to simplify asynchronous code for front-end Web developers, and a free online course to go with it. The tool is called JavaScript Promises, and it converts a tangle of callbacks and event handlers into straightforward code so developers can avoid running into complicated code when performing multiple actions in a … continue reading
With mobile, agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps becoming more popular, testing needed to catch up in 2015. Testers evolved this past year from working solo in silos, to joining developers to deliver code faster. Testers have become key components in the world of agile over the year, and they have been trying to maintain the … continue reading
Software security is improving, but this past year still saw hacks and security breaches. In 2015, companies were creating new tools or initiatives to make sure data and critical information were protected, but with a fair share of leaks and hacks, the wait for a solution to software security continues. Unlike other approaches to security, … continue reading
Samsung Electronics has a Smart TV solution designed to deter hackers from getting into its new Tizen TVs. Today, Samsung announced that the entire 2016 line of Tizen-based Smart TVs will include a comprehensive three-layer security solution called GAIA. The service will give consumers protection across all areas of the Smart TV ecosystem, which includes … continue reading
