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Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh
During the recent virtual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, an Azure-based cloud platform allowing developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remote work better, learn together virtually, and host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups.
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Google Open-Sources AutoML Algorithm Model Search
A team from Google Research has open-sourced Model Search, an automated machine learning (AutoML) platform for designing deep-learning models. Experimental results show that the system produces models that outperform the best human-designed models, with fewer training iterations and model parameters.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 1st, 2021
InfoQ examines a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 1st, 2021.
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Azure Arc-Enabled Machine Learning Is Now in Preview
Azure Arc is Microsoft's offering for allowing customers to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure, including AWS and Google Cloud. This year, during the virtual Ignite conference, the company announced the preview of Azure Arc-enabled machine learning, which extends Azure machine learning capabilities to hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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NumPy 1.20 Released with Runtime SIMD Support and Type Annotations
NumPy 1.20 was recently released with new features focusing on performance and documentation. Developers can now use type annotations for NumPy functions. A wider use of SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions increases the execution speed of universal functions (ufunc). NumPy’s documentation additionally sees significant improvements.
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Software Delivery Practices Evolve Fast, So Should Your Learning: Attend QCon Plus This May 17-28
QCon Plus, the virtual software development conference, will focus this May 17-28 on emerging software trends and innovations, giving attendees the opportunity to connect with software experts from innovator and early adopter companies.
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TensorFlow 3D: Deep Learning for Autonomous Cars’ 3D Perception
Google has released TensorFlow 3D, a library that adds 3D deep-learning capabilities to the TensorFlow machine-learning framework. The new library brings tools and resources that allow researchers to develop and deploy 3D scene understanding models.
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Facebook Open-Sources AI Model to Predict COVID-19 Patient Outcomes
A team from Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and New York University (NYU) School of Medicine has developed deep-learning models that use chest X-rays to predict COVID-19 patient prognosis. In a comparison study, the models outperformed human radiologists, and could be used to help hospitals predict the demand for supplemental oxygen or intensive care.
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Designing for Failure in the BBC's Analytics Platform
Last week at InfoQ Live, Blanca Garcia-Gil, principal systems engineer at BBC, gave a session on Evolving Analytics in the Data Platform. During this session, Garcia-Gil focused on how her team prepared and designed for two types of failure - "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns."
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NLP Library spaCy 3.0 Features Transformer-Based Models and Distributed Training
AI software makers Explosion announced version 3.0 of spaCy, their open-source natural-language processing (NLP) library. The new release includes state-of-the-art Transformer-based pipelines and pre-trained models for 17 languages.
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Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud.
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Java News Roundup - Week of Feb 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of February 15th, 2021.
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Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
Researchers at Google Brain have open-sourced the Switch Transformer, a natural-language processing (NLP) AI model. The model scales up to 1.6T parameters and improves training time up to 7x compared to the T5 NLP model, with comparable accuracy.
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Microsoft Announces Limited Access to Its Neural Text-to-Speech AI
Recently, Microsoft announced limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI called Custom Neural Voice. The service allows developers to create custom synthetic voices.
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QCon Plus (May 17-28) Program Committee and Conference Chair Announced
This May at QCon Plus over 1500 senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will discuss emerging software trends and practices, develop their technical and non-technical skills and get valuable insights they can take home to their team to implement right away.