Stephen Wolfram has announced ImageIdentify, a new function of the Wolfram programming language enabling artificially intelligent image identification of any photo on the Web. Wolfram announced the capability in a blog post along with the launch of the Wolfram Language Image Identification Project, which will open ImageIdentify to the public for instant image recognition of … continue reading
The Node.js and io.js forks of the open-source JavaScript runtime platform have announced official plans to merge development under the Node.js Foundation. The merger was put to a vote on GitHub by io.js developer Mikeal Rogers, who initially proposed the merger in February, and the io.js technical committee voted to approve the merger yesterday. According … continue reading
IBM has announced new cloud-computing, software-defined storage, server, Big Data and hybrid cloud solutions at the IBM Edge conference in Las Vegas. Spanning the company’s IBM Power Systems, IBM z Systems, IBM Spectrum Storage, IBM Middleware, IBM SoftLayer and OpenStack software platforms, the new cloud releases are aimed at gaining better cloud-based insights on business … continue reading
Mobile app development is fueling the API economy, but one company believes there’s a better way than API management for enterprise developers to integrate back-end databases and services into applications. Bill Appleton is the CEO of DreamFactory, an open-source back-end integration platform for REST APIs in mobile, Web and Internet of Things applications. The company … continue reading
Richard has night sweats. Bad ones. The Pied Piper CEO is a ball of frantic nervous energy, deciding on half a dozen new hires, choosing expensive new office space, dealing with an overbearing investor and developing a working beta in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in January. “Every moment there’s a new issue to … continue reading
This week’s featured GitHub project, Vorlon.js, is an extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remote JavaScript debugging and testing. Developed by the Microsoft DirectX team, Vorlon.js is powered by Node.js and the Socket.io real-time event-based communication engine. John Shewchuk, a Microsoft technical fellow and CTO of the Microsoft Developer Platform, introduced Vorlon last week at Build and … continue reading
GitHub has announced support for notebooks from Jupyter, formerly known as IPython. Jupyter consists of interactive command shells used to create browser-based notebooks with support for code, rich text, mathematical expressions, and other media used primarily by data scientists, researchers and programmers. GitHub announced that the more than 200,000 Jupyter notebooks already on GitHub will … continue reading
A startup aims to reinforce enterprise Docker with a new virtual container security suite. Twistlock, a startup based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco that recently emerged from stealth mode, today announced the Twistlock enterprise security suite for containers. The end-to-end solution includes an open-source containerized application framework for developers as well as an enterprise … continue reading
Google has launched Cloud Bigtable, a scalable, fully managed NoSQL database service available through the open-source Apache HBase API. Google Cloud Bigtable is an enterprise-focused NoSQL service for high-volume data ingestion, analytics and data-heavy serving workloads. The service includes a natively integrated open-source interface for Hadoop imported to existing HBase clusters along with replicated storage … continue reading
As developers prepare for the coming wave of Universal Windows Apps across Windows 10 devices, Microsoft is highlighting new Visual Studio 2015 features like adaptive code. In a session at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft senior program manager and Windows XAML team member Harikrishna Menon ran through the process of leveraging the code … continue reading
JavaScript is everywhere. Once relegated to an Internet fad, the malleable programming language has evolved along with the Web and now finds itself entrenched in modern browsers, complex Web applications, mobile development, server-side programming, and in emerging platforms like the Internet of Things. Underlying that browser-centric user and developer shift, JavaScript has developed a robust … continue reading
Microsoft announced a slew of product news at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago, but in a conference of more than 23,000 attendees, the active expo floor offered arguably more news on software development tools and releases for developers in the Microsoft space. Below is a rundown of some of the interesting companies and developer … continue reading
