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Go 1.16 Will Support Register-Based Calling Convention
The Go team is working to implement a minimum viable register-based calling convention in Go 1.16. This change could provide 5-10% throughput improvement, according to the Google Go team, while keeping backward compatibility for code using Go current stack-based calling convention.
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Kotlin 1.4 Brings New Language Features, Improved Compilers and Tools
Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more.
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TensorFlow 2.3 Features Pipeline Bottleneck Reduction and Improved Preprocessing
The TensorFlow project announced the release of version 2.3.0, featuring new mechanisms for reducing input pipeline bottlenecks, Keras layers for pre-processing, and memory profiling.
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Go 1.15 Improves the Go Linker, Small Object Allocation, and More
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and more.
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Google Meet’s Scaling Challenges during COVID-19
Google wrote about their challenges in scaling Google Meet due to increased usage since the COVID-19 pandemic led to more people using it. The SRE team at Google used their existing incident management framework with modifications to tackle the challenge of increased traffic that started earlier this year.
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Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Join the Open Source Security Foundation
Supported by The Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) aims to create a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security. The list of initial members includes Google, Microsoft, GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, and more.
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Google Improves Android App Bundle for Games and Modular Apps
In its latest Android Studio 4.2, currently in Canary, Google has made significant improvements to the Android App Bundle format by introducing Play Asset Delivery (PAD) and dynamic modules resource shrinking.
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AI Conference Recap: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Others at ACL 2020
At the recent Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), research teams from several tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce presented nearly 200 papers out of a total of 779 on a wide variety of AI topics related to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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Google Open-Sources AI for Mapping Natural Language to Mobile UI Actions
Google has open-sourced their AI model for converting sequences of natural language instructions to actions in a mobile device UI. The model is based on the Transformer deep-learning architecture and achieves 70% accuracy on a new benchmark dataset created for the project.
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Google Launches Confidential VMs in Beta on Its Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory.
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Google Announces TensorFlow 2 Support in Object Detection API
Google announced support for TensorFlow 2 (TF2) in the TensorFlow Object Detection (OD) API. The release includes eager-mode compatible binaries, two new network architectures, and pre-trained weights for all supported models.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud VMware Engine. With the release, customers can migrate their existing VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without refactoring or rewriting them.
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Disabling Google 2FA Doesn't Need 2FA
A developer's machine, compromised by attackers, was able to use Safari auto-fill to log into passwords.google.com, disable 2FA and extract passwords without notification. InfoQ spoke to Amos (@fasterthanlime) on Twitter about his experience and advice for others who might find themselves in the same situation. Read on to find out what happened, and what you should do to protect your assets.
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Google ARCore Depth API Now Available with Additional Sample Code
Released in closed beta at the end of last year, ARCore Depth is now available in ARCore 1.18. Since the initial announcement, Google has been working with selected partners to create compelling use cases of this technology.