Google is updating its mobile platform Firebase with new building blocks to accelerate app development. The company made a number of announcements at its Firebase Summit 2020 this week. “Over the past few months, we’ve seen that apps not only improve the way we live, they also enhance our ability to adapt to change. In 2020, … continue reading
Google announced a new resources Learn website designed to help developers achieve the knowledge and skills necessary to develop software using Google’s technology. Previously, educational content was separated by product area and platform, but now the website links all of the educational activities together. The resources include Codelabs to walk users through the process of … continue reading
A survey by Algorithmia found that a majority of IT leaders are planning to increase their AI/ML initiatives as a result of the pandemic, and realize that those initiatives should have been a higher priority for their organizations all along. While 54% of IT leaders responded that their AI/ML projects were focused on financial analysis … continue reading
GitHub CLI 1.0 reduces context switching and helps developers more easily script and create their workflows. With GitHub CLI 1.0, users can run their entire GitHub workflow from their terminal, call the GitHub API to script nearly action and connect to GitHub Enterprise in addition to GitHub.com. Additional details on the new release are available … continue reading
Android 11 was released this week with three primary themes: a focus on controls to let users get to and control all of their smart devices, increased privacy, and a people-centric approach to communication. The release also includes new features for developers such as conversation notifications, device and media controls, one-time permissions, enhanced 5G support, … continue reading
Google has announced a new set of services aimed at simplifying Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers. According to Google, companies are using machine learning to solve challenging problems, but machine learning systems can create unwanted technical debt if it is not managed well. Google noted that machine learning … continue reading
WhiteSource has announced it will now integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio Code Editor. According to the company, the integration gives Visual Studio Code developers visibility and security alerts on problematic open-source components while continuing to develop within their preferred development environment. “Integrating security testing pre-build allows issues to be detected earlier when they are easier … continue reading
Android’s Jetpack Compose has reached alpha. It is a modern UI toolkit designed to help developers quickly and easily build apps across all Android platforms with native access to the platform APIs. Jetpack Compose focuses on providing APIs for high-quality apps at scale, an intuitive language, and a reactive programming model, the team explained. The … continue reading
As part of it’s app modernization week, Google announced a number of new updates to help organizations get started with their digital transformations and to streamline application development and delivery. The Google Cloud App Modernization Program The Google App Modernization Program (Google CAMP) was formed to offer advice on how organizations can start their journeys … continue reading
Checkmarx has announced it will integrate its application security testing solutions directly into the GitLab pipeline. Developers will now have access to automatic SAST and SCA security scans in the event of pull or merge requests, eliminating time-consuming manual scans and allowing developers to find and fix vulnerabilities earlier in the SDLC and make security assessments … continue reading
Microsoft launched a new open source site, which features aims to help people get involved, explore projects and join the ecosystem. The site also offers near real-time view of things that are happening across Microsoft’s projects on GitHub. In addition, the site highlights Microsoft’s open-source projects such as Accessibility Insights, PowerToys and Windows Terminal. More … continue reading
Frances “Fran” Allen, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. She was a pioneer in compiler organization and optimization algorithms and made seminal contributions to the world of computing. Her work on inter-procedural analysis and automatic parallelization … continue reading
