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Microsoft Opens Its Quantum Development Kit to macOS and Linux
After making its Quantum Development Kit available to developers last December, Microsoft is now announcing its first major update, including support for macOS and Linux, interoperability with Python, and more.
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Json.NET No Longer Has over 120 Dependencies
Json.NET, the official JSON parsing and serialization library for .NET, required a whopping 122 packages on .NET Standard 1.3. With the release of Json.NET 11 for .NET Standard 2.0, that has dropped to 0.
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Cloud IoT Core Service in Google Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available
Google announced the general availability of its Cloud IoT Core, a managed service to help enterprises connect and manage millions of connected devices. The Cloud IoT Core will offer its users a system for controlling the connection of the internet of things (IoT) devices with Google’s Cloud Platform (GPC) and a pipeline for getting data to and from those devices.
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Coindesk 2018 State of Blockchain
Coindesk recently released their 2018 State of Blockchain report, which provides more than 160 pages of blockchain related research covering investments in top cryptocurrencies, enterprise blockchain solutions, raising capital through initial coin offerings, government, regulation and sentiment. InfoQ has analyzed this report and has compiled a list of key developments that impact our readership.
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Notes From the DDD Europe 2018 Conference
The recently held DDD Europe 2018 conference in Amsterdam was the third in order and saw almost 700 attendees. The conference has a focus on Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and included four keynotes, 19 presentations, one track for open space and 17 sessions focused on live coding or hands-on. Notable speakers included Eric Evans, Dave Snowden, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Cyrille Martraire.
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Dart 2 Revamped for Mobile Development
The latest version of Google’s Dart programming language, sporting a strengthened type system, cleaned-up syntax, and an improved toolchain, is being touted by Google as the way to go for Mobile and Web app development, enabling a 2–3x productivity increase.
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UK Supermarket Launches Machine Learning Sommelier
The UK arm of German supermarket company Lidl has launched a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot, designed to help customers choose the right wine to compliment their food or occasion.The chatbot, named Margot, uses a unique approach to NLU and can interact with shoppers to provide answers to frequently asked questions, pairing wines with food, finding a wine and taking a quiz.
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Google Cloud TPU for Machine Learning Acceleration is Now Available in Beta
Google has made their custom chips, Tensor Processing Units (TPU) for running machine learning workloads written for its TensorFlow framework, available in beta for Machine Learning (ML) experts and developers. With Google’s Cloud TPU’s, ML models can run on demand at lower costs and higher performance.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Data Classes for Java
Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, introduced an experimental concept of data classes that may someday be integrated into the Java programming language. But there is much work to be done before this concept is worthy of any real attention. Goetz explored the problems and tradeoffs of data classes on the premise that sometimes “data is just data.”
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Go Language 1.10 Improves Toolchain and Performance
Although the latest release of Go does not include any major changes at the language level, it provides a number of improvements to the toolchain, the Go runtime, and the standard library.
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Highlights for the Upcoming .NET Framework 4.7.2
Though most of the attention is on .NET Core, development continues on the original .NET Framework. Microsoft has recently released a preview of .NET Framework 4.7.2 with updates to ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WCF, WPF, and even Windows Forms.
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Spring Boot 2.0 Nears GA
The release of Spring Boot version 2.0 general availability came a step closer with release candidate 1 (RC1) being announced on January 31st. Even at this late stage some noteworthy additions are still being released, alongside a huge number of issues and pull requests closed.
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From Java EE to Jakarta EE: the Java EE Guardians Rebranding Debate with Oracle
Frustrated with the lack of response from Oracle, the Java EE Guardians recently submitted an open letter to Oracle expressing their concerns on the rebranding of Java EE. Despite the efforts and data collection by the Java EE Guardians, the rebranding of Java EE will move forward.
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Rust Gets Incremental Compiler and Standard Code Formatter
Rust 1.24 brings two new major features: incremental compilation and a standard code formatter, rustfmt.
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SaaS Platform for Managing Configurations Enters Private Beta
Config is a new SaaS offering for managing configuration files. Created by Bien David in 2017, the company looks to simplify how teams store and access configurations used by systems, apps, modules, environments, and server instances. InfoQ spoke to the team behind Config to learn more about how these problems are solved.