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CareKit is Apple’s New Open-source Health-oriented Mobile App Framework
Following on from the announcement at the March 2016 “Let us loop you in”, Apple has open sourced its new CareKit framework, aimed to make it easier for developers to create apps that help people manage their medical conditions. Along with the new framework, Apple has also made available four iOS apps that use it.
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AirFlow Joins Apache Incubator
AirFlow recently joined the Apache Incubator program. AirFlow is a workflow and scheduling system designed to manage data pipelines. Developed by AirBnb for their internal usage, it was open sourced last September, as previously reported by InfoQ.
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Intel Open Sources Arduino 101 Real Time OS
Arduino announced that Intel has released Arduino 101 real time operating system (RTOS) for hacking and studying purpose.
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Vulnerability in Java Reflection Library Fixed after 30 Months
In July 2013 Security Explorations discovered a vulnerability in Java by which attackers could elevate their access privileges. Oracle released a patch, but a simple modification was discovered that still makes the attack effective. Once known, Oracle released a patch as part of 8u77. In this article we investigate the little understood class loading process at the heart of the problem.
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Collision: How Flash Storage Will Transform IT
Massive reductions in cost for flash storage along with new technologies promise to dramatically change how well IT shops can satisfy what's expected of them in the cloud era. John Roese, CTO of EMC lays out a case for why companies need to adopt new technologies in order to out-perform their competitors.
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Operational Data Stream and Batch Processing at Netflix with Mantis
Operational Data Stream and Batch Processing at Netflix with Mantis
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Firefox 46 Tackles Security Issues, Improves Performance
Mozilla has released Firefox 46, including improved security of the JavaScript JIT Compiler, and delaying Addon signing.
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Collision: Online Harassment and Machine Learning
Online harassment is a serious issue, one that the engineers and designers behind the keyboard don't always think about when building software. Machine learning is become more prevalent but as more technology companies take advantage of it, they risk alienating their users even more by presenting content that isn't actually relevant.
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Concourse: Scalable Open Source CI Pipeline Tool
Concourse, an open source CI pipeline tool that uses yaml files for configuring pipelines and configuration-free setup, has recently bumped its major release and is currently available in version 1.1.0. Major conceptual benefits of Concourse are explicit and first-class support of pipelines, running isolated builds in containers, avoidance of snowflake build servers and easy access to build logs.
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Samsung and Codenvy release Artik IDE for IoT
Today at the Samsung Developers Conference, Codenvy announced the first public release of the Samsung Artik IDE which allows building applications for the Samsung Artik IoT devices.
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V8 JavaScript Engine 5.1 Brings More ECMAScript Compliance, WASM Support
Google has announced version 5.1 of its V8 JavaScript engine, which improves compliance with the ECMAScript 2017 draft specification and adds preliminary support for WASM, a low-level portable bytecode aimed to enable near-native execution speed.
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Xamarin.Forms Open Sourced
Xamarin.Forms has been released as an MIT-licensed open source project as Microsoft continues to open up their .NET software platform. Coinciding with this announcement is news that Visual Studio users will find it easier to perform development for iOS devices from within Visual Studio.
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Node.js 6.0 Supports 93% of ES2015
Node.js 6.0 has been released, becoming the new current version. It comes with performance improvements, better test and documentation coverage, better security and wide support for ES2015.
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A Whole System Based on Event Sourcing is an Anti-Pattern
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) was never meant to be the end goal of what we are trying to achieve, it is a stepping stone towards the ideas of Event sourcing, Greg Young stated in his presentation at the Domain-Driven Design Europe conference earlier this year. He noted though that just applying CQRS is still a valuable pattern.
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Collision: VR Content Democratization Key to Proliferation
Most Virtual Reality content is expensively and professionally produced by technology companies. For the technology to proliferate and satiate consumers wants, we need more ways to produce and share content.