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Google Targets IoT with Android Things
Google brings Android and its ecosystem to the development of IoT devices. Developers will write applications to these devices similarly to how they write for mobile ones.
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Building Conversational and Text Interfaces Using Amazon Lex
At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon introduced a preview of their deep learning technology called Amazon Lex which can be used to build conversational interfaces using voice and text. Amazon Lex is powered on the same deep learning technology as Alexa, which is used in the portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Amazon Echo speaker.
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Nomulus: Google’s Open-Source TLD Registry Platform
Google announces newly open-sourced cloud platform for creating and managing generic TLDs. Dubbed Nomulus, the AppEngine-powered platform helps domain registries by reducing the technological barriers to entering the market — from scaling their product to just getting started.
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Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Urge Site Operators to Replace SHA–1 Certificates
Following their SHA–1 deprecation plans announced last year, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla detailed recently their timelines to remove support for SHA–1 certificates from their flagship browsers. Researchers at security firm Venafi found however, that 35% of analyzed websites are still using SHA–1 certificates.
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Major Windows Vulnerability Disclosed by Google before Patch Available
A major, currently exploited vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel has recently been disclosed by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, before Microsoft made public a patch or any mitigation advice. Microsoft has stated a fully tested patch will be available in a week.
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Chrome 54 Kills YouTube Flash Embeds
Google has launched Chrome 54, further side lining Flash in the browser by using HTML5 for YouTube embed. The stable release rewrites YouTube Flash embeds, so that when a Flash embed for YouTube is detected, the browser will automatically use HTML5 instead. Google said that the change had been made "to reduce the overall usage of Flash in Chrome."
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How YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Works
In a recent paper published by Google, YouTube engineers analyzed in greater detail the inner workings of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. The paper was presented on the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems last week in Boston. In this news item we analyze how YouTube uses deep learning to operate one of the largest and most complex recommendation systems in industry.
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Microsoft Pushes the Bot Framework, Google Buys API.ai
Microsoft has made available Bot Framework Preview to developers and Google has purchased API.ai, a bot engine with many integrations.
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Android Studio 2.2: New Layout, Firebase, OpenJDK, Java 8
Android Studio 2.2 comes with enhancements across all development phases - Design, Development, Build and Test -, including a new Constraint Layout, Layout Editor, Firebase plug-in, Code Sample browser, Java 8 support, OpenJDK, GPU Debugger and others.
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Google to Aquire API Management Company Apigee
Google is acquiring API management company Apigee for $635 million.
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Google Launches Cloud Natural Language API
Google released their beta Cloud Natural Language API on July 20, joining the movement to make advances in natural language processing (NLP) from the small world of cutting-edge research and to the hands of everyday data scientists and software engineers. Google’s NLP API lets users take advantage of three core NLP features:
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Google Releases Android 7.0 with over 250 New Features
Google has started updating certain devices to the latest Android 7.0, dubbed Nougat. Usually, a new version of Android would start to be pushed to devices during the fall, in late September or even October. But this year they changed the pace, making available a preview in March and the GA in August.
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gRPC 1.0 is Ready for Production
Google has released gRPC 1.0, considering it stable and ready for production.
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Google is Working on a New Operating System Called Fuchsia
Google has open sourced the at least some of the bits for a new operating system planned for hardware with fast processors and lots of RAM.
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Google's Chrome 53 Beta Brings Shadow DOM V1
Google's Chrome 53 Beta brings support for Shadow DOM V1, as well as the PaymentRequest API. A significant improvement from the earlier V0 version, among the V1 upgrades are deprecation of multiple shadow roots, and a closed shadow root where a closed mode is designed to disallow any access to a node in a closed shadow root from an outside world.