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Google Launches "Season of Docs" Program to Improve Open Source Documentation
Google has launched Season of Docs, a program which aims to improve documentation for open source projects. It will do this by building a mentoring relationship between open source contributors and technical writers, helping create stronger and more comprehensive documentation for various open source technologies.
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Google Expands Cloud BigTable Replication Capabilities Globally in Beta
Google announced the expansion of Cloud BigTable's replication capabilities in Beta - providing customers with the flexibility to make their data available across a region or worldwide. Furthermore, the enhancements will allow customers to create a replicated cluster in any zone at any time.
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Go 1.12 Improves Runtime Performance and Module Support
The latest release of Go, version 1.12, includes no syntactical changes to the language and focuses on improving runtime performance, the toolchain, and the module system. Additionally, it provides opt-in support for TLS 1.3, and improved support for macOS and iOS.
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Android Q Beta 1 Brings New Privacy Features, Foldable Support, Vulkan Extensions
The next Android version, dubbed Android Q, is now available for developers in beta, bringing new privacy features, system-wide behaviour changes, and new APIs to support foldable devices, Vulkan extensions, and more.
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Google Researchers Say Spectre Will Haunt Us for Years
According to a paper by several Google researchers, speculative vulnerabilities currently defeat all programming-language-level means of enforcing information confidentiality. This would not be just an incidental property of how we build our systems, but rather the result of wrong mental models that led us to trade security for performance without knowing it.
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Adiantum Brings Disk Encryption to Low-End Smartphones
Adiantum is a new encryption algorithm for low-end smartphones, smartwatches, and other Android Pie devices that are too slow to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) standard for storage encryption.
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Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available
Google announced that their NoSQL database in the cloud Cloud Firestore is now generally available. With the release, Google is also introducing a few new features, such as a StackDriver integration, bringing the service to more regions, and offering a lower pricing tier.
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Exploring the Relationship between Quantum Computers and Machine Learning
The Google AI Quantum team recently published two papers that contribute to the exploration of the relationship between quantum computers and machine learning. InfoQ has spoken with Google senior research scientist Jarrod McClean to better understand the importance of these results.
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Google’s Plan Towards Go 2: Community Involvement Takes Center Stage
Work on the next major version of Google’s language has already begun with around 120 open proposals candidate to be reviewed for Go 2, writes Google engineer Robert Griesemer. Google also intends to make the Go 2 process much more community-driven.
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Google Introduces AI Hub and Kubeflow Pipelines for Easier ML Deployment
Google is launching two new tools, one proprietary and one open source: AI Hub and Kubeflow pipelines. Both are designed to assist data scientists design, launch and keep track of their machine learning algorithms.
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Google Labs Announces Squoosh: Image Compression PWA
At the 2018 Google Chrome Developer Summit, Google announced Squoosh, an open source image compression Progressive Web App (PWA) that doubles as a practical demonstration of modern web technologies.
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Google Open-Sources Speaker Diarization AI Technology, Claims 92% Accuracy
In a recent blog post, Google announced they have open-sourced their speaker diarization technology, which is able to differentiate people’s voices at a high accuracy rate. Google is able to do this by partitioning an audio stream that includes multiple participants into homogeneous segments per participant.
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Google Open-Sources BERT: A Natural Language Processing Training Technique
In a recent blog post, Google announced they have open-sourced BERT, their state-of-the-art training technique for Natural Language Processing (NLP) . Google has decided to do this, in part, due to a lack of public data sets that are available to developers. In addition, optimizations have been made to Cloud TPUs to reduce the amount of time required for training NLP.
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Google Cloud Announces Transfer Appliance in Beta for Cloud Data Migrations in the EU
Google announced that Transfer Appliance, a high-capacity server that lets customers move large amounts of data to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) quickly and securely, is available in beta in the European Union (EU). Google will handle the data transfer with Transfer Appliance in GCP in the EU, and data will not leave the EU.
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Google Announces a Managed Cron Service: Google Cloud Scheduler
Google announced a new Service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Cloud Scheduler, a fully managed cron job service that allows any application to invoke batch, big data and cloud infrastructure operations. The service is currently available in beta.