Facebook’s commitment to the wider dev community remains as strong as ever, if recent developments are any indication. Following the open-sourcing of image processing library Spectrum in January, natural language processing modeling framework PyText late last year, and AI reinforcement learning platform Horizon in November, Facebook’s AI research division today announced that Pythia, a modular […]
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At KubeCon EU in Barcelona today, Microsoft made a slew of Kubernetes announcements. The company launched the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, its new community project for collaboration around Service Mesh infrastructure, and also released Helm 3 alpha, version 1.0 of its Visual Studio Code Kubernetes extension, and version 1.0 of the Virtual Kubelet. SMI […]
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Wolfram Research today announced free access to the engine that powers its technology stack. The Wolfram Engine is available to developers for free, assuming it is used for non-production development. You can download Wolfram Engine now from wolfram.com/developer. Wolfram Research is best known for creating the modern technical computing system Mathematica and the computational knowledge […]
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CloudBees, a San Jose, California-based software company that provides DevOps solutions to enterprises, today announced that it has secured $10 million in follow-on funding from HSBC. This brings the company’s last growth capital round to $72 million and its total raised to over $120 million. Cofounder and CEO Sacha Labourey says it will fuel expansion […]
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At its Build 2018 developer conference a year ago, Microsoft previewed Visual Studio IntelliCode, which uses AI to offer intelligent suggestions that improve code quality and productivity. In April, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. At that point, IntelliCode was still an optional extension that Microsoft was openly offering as a preview. […]
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You’re not imagining things: Some JavaScript web apps are quite slow, owing to egregiously high startup, parsing, and data transfer overhead. According to HTTPArchive, which periodically crawls popular websites and records information about fetched resources, the average page requires 350KB of JavaScript (10% of pages exceed 1MB). And once these pages are transferred, JavaScript engines […]
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Microsoft AI researchers today said they’ve created a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) that incorporates Google’s BERT AI to achieve state-of-the-art results. The MT-DNN was able to set new high performance standards in 7 of 9 NLP tasks from the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmarks. The MT-DNN model, which also uses BERT, was first introduced […]
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Text normalization is a fundamental processing step in most natural language systems. In the case of Amazon’s Alexa, “book me a table at 5:00 p.m.” might be transcribed by the assistant’s automatic speech recognizer as “five p m” and further reformatted to “5:00PM.” Inversely, Alexa might convert “5:00PM” to “five thirty p m” for Alexa’s […]
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Google is trying to convince Android smartphone app developers that integration with Google Assistant is a way to spark re-engagement among users. The tactic was tested last week at multiple sessions at Google’s annual I/O developer conference. Engagement may be a more urgent matter now, as last week Google began to invite Android users to […]
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Twitter today announced plans to build “the next generation of the Twitter API” that will provide more flexibility and better serve developers. As a first step, the company is launching the Twitter Developer Labs program to let developers preview new features and test new API products before they are finalized. Participating developers will be asked […]
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At its I/O 2019 developer conference today, Google launched version 1.5 of Flutter, its open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS. But that’s no longer true: The mobile framework is now a multi-platform UI framework, supporting the web, desktop, mobile, and even embedded devices. Flutter’s mission has […]
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Google today introduced several changes for its Actions on Google platform for the creation of voice apps including the ability to tie an action to “how to” questions and easier ways to connect with Android apps. Built-in intents allow a developer to use templates created by Google to quickly configure natural language exchanges with Google […]
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At its I/O 2019 developer conference, Google announced 10 new libraries for Android Jetpack, its set of components, tools, and guidance designed to accelerate app development. The company also unveiled Jetpack Compose, a new unbundled Kotlin toolkit. Think of Android Jetpack as the successor to Support Library, a set of components that makes it easier […]
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Microsoft dropped a ton of announcements during the kickoff keynote at Build, its annual developer conference, and more than a few concerned its Power Platform. Here’s the gist: Power BI and PowerApps, the company’s no-code business analytics service and web apps design platform, respectively, are in line for upgrades next month. The new PowerApps Component […]
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Build is Microsoft’s annual developer conference, which makes Visual Studio and .NET the stars of the show. Build 2019 is no different: Microsoft previewed new Visual Studio features for remote work, unveiled the .NET roadmap, and launched ML.NET 1.0. In April, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. Two notable features were Visual […]
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At its Build 2019 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of offerings for Windows developers, including Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, XAML Islands, React Native for Windows, and MSIX Core. Windows Terminal, available in preview now, is a new application for command-line users that promises a user interface with “graphics-processing-unit-accelerated text […]
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At its Build 2019 developers conference today, Microsoft announced upcoming features for its new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google’s Chrome is based on. The company is promising an IE mode, additional privacy tools, and Collections. Microsoft said “these features and more will begin to roll out […]
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Ahead of its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington next week, Microsoft today announced enhancements to Azure Machine Learning, its service that enables users to architect predictive models, classifiers, and recommender systems for cloud-hosted and on-premises apps. “Furthering our commitment to building the most productive AI platform, we’re delivering key new innovations in Azure […]
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Microsoft is introducing new ways to deploy AI with Azure Cognitive Services, its prebuilt service to make it easier for people without the technical knowledge of a machine learning engineer or data scientists. New today is Decision, a suite of decision-making recommendations, automated transcription services, and AI that recognizes and digitizes drawings. The Decision suite […]
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