Google has announced a new video calling app, Duo, to rival Microsoft’s Skype and iOS’ FaceTime. It has been made available on Android and iOS. “Video calling is the next best thing to being with someone in person, but too often it can be a frustrating or complicated experience,” wrote Justin Uberti, principal software engineer, … continue reading
The Go programming language has been updated to version 1.7, bringing with it many performance and compile-time speedups. A new compiler back-end has been added, based on static single-assignment form, and according to Google, this addition can bring speedups to applications ranging from 5% to 35%. The compiler improvements don’t end with actual application optimizations, … continue reading
NVIDIA’s CEO hand-delivered an AI supercomputer-in-a-box, the NVIDIA DGX-1, to OpenAI in San Francisco last week. OpenAI’s researchers will put the first production DGX-1 to work on artificial intelligence challenges. The DGX-1 is packed with 170 teraflops of computing power, equaling 250 conventional servers. OpenAI will use it to work on projects like artificial personal … continue reading
Google is giving Android developers new ways to stay informed about their apps. The company is updating the Google Play Developer Console app with new features for reviews and experiments. “With over one million apps published through the Google Play Developer Console, we know how important it is to publish with confidence, acquire users, learn … continue reading
Google is giving developers the Python support they have been asking for. The company has announced the Python runtime for the Google App Engine Flexible Environment with Python 3.4 and 2.7 support. “Developers running Python on Google App Engine have long asked for support for Python 3 and third-party Python packages,” Amir Ruzrokh, product manager … continue reading
Google has announced Chrome will start de-emphasizing Flash in favor of HTML5 as a way to speed up the web and save battery life. According to the company’s blog, “90% of Flash on the web loads behind the scenes to support page analytics,” causing the plugin to slows things down. Starting in September, Chrome 53 … continue reading
Sharing servers can be as easy as sharing pictures and videos on social media platforms. ScaleFT, Packet, and CoreOS have joined together to show developers just how easy this is, allowing them to log into a cloud server as they would with other applications. The organizations launched a sharing server experiment on August 7, International Friends … continue reading
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the availability of HPE Mobile Center 2.0. It’s an integrated software development testing suite that allows developers and organizations to rapidly test and build mobile applications. The mobile center is expanding its capabilities to give users the ability to test, monitor and improve their mobile apps. It integrates with … continue reading
The first version of Autotrack, a JavaScript library for analytics.js, was released on GitHub earlier this year. Today, Google announced the release of Autotrack v1.0, which includes new plug-ins, improvements to existing plug-ins, and other ways for developers to customize their software. (Note: Autotrack isn’t an official Google Analytics product, so it will not quality … continue reading
LaunchKit wants to help mobile app developers create, launch and monitor their applications with web-based tools it has recently released as open source. The company’s suite of products include a screenshot builder, app website builder, review monitor and sales reporter. Screenshot builder allows developers to create images for app stores. App website builder enables developers … continue reading
Google is expanding its Cloud Platform to help developers build intelligent applications. The company has introduced the Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API into open beta. The Cloud Natural Language API enables developers to perform sentiment analysis, entity recognition and syntax analysis in a number of languages. Sentiment analysis aims to understand the … continue reading
Android Nougat is coming. Google has released the fifth developer preview of its upcoming operating system, Android 7. This will be the last developer preview before Android Nougat begins to publicly roll out. “As we close in on the public rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat to devices later this summer, today we’re releasing Developer Preview … continue reading
