Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and it can be hard to keep up with it all. We’ve written this roundup to share updates from 10 notable companies that have recently enhanced their products with AI. Google announces public beta for Gen AI Toolbox for Databases … continue reading
Atlassian today announced updates to Jira’s capabilities designed to bring software teams and the business side closer together by enabling every team to manage its work, collaborate, and gain visibility into what other teams are doing. Companies using Jira Software include NASA, which can write code on a Monday and deliver it to drive the … continue reading
Adobe has announced its intention to acquire the popular design platform Figma for $20 billion. Since much of Adobe’s business revolves around helping people create digital content, the addition of Figma will help them “usher in a new era of collaborative creativity,” Adobe said. Figma was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, … continue reading
The team at Adobe recently announced the availability of Adobe Developer App Builder, the unified third-party extensibility framework for integrating and creating custom experiences for Adobe applications. It is available for all Adobe Experience Manager customers and soon to be available for Adobe Commerce. Adobe Developer App Builder provides users with a more unified experience … continue reading
GitHub has announced the MLH Fellowship is expanding to include American Express and Adobe to its summer 2021 program in which students will be able to use real tools and experience around how to collaborate remotely and globally while working along with experienced engineers. The fellowship was created to fill in the lack of internships … continue reading
Flash Player 32 and AIR 32 were released as the final scheduled updates of Flash Player. Adobe will no longer support Flash Player after December 31st this year and will block Flash content from running on it on January 12th, 2021. “We want to take a moment to thank all of our customers and developers … continue reading
TypeScript 4.1 RC was released with new features, new checking flags, editor productivity updates, and speed improvements. The new string literal types in TypeScript allow users to model functions and APIs that expect a set of specific strings. It has the same syntax as template literal strings in JavaScript, but is used in type positions. … continue reading
Adobe announced it is ending the development for PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. PhoneGap was created in 2008 to give mobile app developers a way to easily create web and mobile applications with a single codebase. Since 2008, the industry and market has evolved and PhoneGap usage has declined. “In the context of these developments and … continue reading
This week Adobe introduced a new open-source project designed to help developers build great user experiences. React Spectrum is a collection of libraries and tools that focus on adaptive, accessible and robust user experiences. The project currently includes three libraries: React Spectrum, which is an implementation of Adobe’s design system React Aria, a library of … continue reading
Adobe has announced a new virtual analyst in Adobe Analytics that will be able to automatically uncover insights without the user prompting it to. It leverages Adobe Sensei, the company’s AI and machine learning framework, to surface signals that might otherwise go unnoticed, resulting in insights such as what caused unexpected spikes or drops in … continue reading
A new initiative is launching to transform data into digital customer experiences that drive business value. Adobe, Microsoft and SAP announced the Open Data Initiative at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando today. The Open Data Initiative was created out of the need to gather data in real-time and make business decisions based on it. According to … continue reading
JavaScript compiler Babel version 7 is now available. According to the team, this release was two years, 4k commits, and more than 50 pre-releases in the making. “Babel 7 is a huge release: we’ve made it faster, created an upgrade tool, JS configs, config ‘overrides,’ more options for size/minification, JSX Fragments, TypeScript, new proposals, and … continue reading
