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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.
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Google BigQuery Now Allows to Query All Open-Source Projects on GitHub
A full snapshot of more than 2.8 million open source project hosted on GitHub is now available in Google’s BigQuery, Google and GitHub announced. This will make it possible to query almost 2 billion source files hosted on GitHub using SQL.
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FaaS, PaaS, and the Benefits of the Serverless Architecture
This article discusses what serverless is, comparing it with PaaS and SPaaS, the benefits and costs of a serverless architecture and the need for a framework.
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Google Chrome 51 Arrives with Intersection Observers, and Credential Management APIs
Google has launched Chrome 51, bringing with it intersection observers, passive event listeners and the credential management APIs -- as well as many security fixes.
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Google Details New TensorFlow Optimized ASIC
The machine learning and engineering communities weigh in on news of Google's new TensorFlow optimized processor, the TPU and possibly influence several industry leaders in the hardware space like Intel and Nvidia.
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Flash Gets Sidelined in Google Chrome Proposal
Google have revealed plans to sideline Flash in their Chrome browser. In the draft proposal "HTML5 by Default" Chrome's technical program manager says "Later this year we plan to change how Chromium hints to websites about the presence of Flash Player. If a site offers an HTML5 experience, this change will make that the primary experience."
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Nest Has Open Sourced Thread
Nest has made the source code of their Thread protocol available on GitHub.
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Google Cloud Machine Learning and Tensor Flow Alpha Release
Late last month Google released an alpha version of their TensorFlow (TF) integrated cloud machine learning service as a response to a growing need to make their Tensor Flow library to run at scale on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google describes several new feature sets around making TF usage scale by integrating several pieces of the GCP like Dataproc, a managed Hadoop and Spark service.
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New in Android Studio 2.0: Instant Run and Cloud Test Lab
Android Studio 2.0 comes with several new features and improvements: Instant Run, integration with a Google service for testing on real devices, faster emulator, faster builds, GPU profiler and debugger, support for deep linking and others.
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Android N Combines AOT, Interpretation and JIT
Android N introduces a hybrid runtime using compilation + interpretation + JIT to obtain the best compromise between installation time, memory footprint, battery consumption and performance.
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Google Maglev: A Load Balancer on Commodity Servers
A group of engineers from Google, UCLA, and SpaceX are presenting the paper "Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer" at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '16) taking place this week. Maglev is Google’s network load balancer.
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Databricks Integrates Spark and TensorFlow for Deep Learning
Since announcements late last year about Google open-sourcing TensorFlow, the company’s open-source library for machine learning, and previous coverage at InfoQ, the data-science community has had an opportunity to try out TensorFlow for their own projects.