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Google Releases First Development Kit for Project ARA, its New Modular Smartphone Platform
Google has released a Module Developers Kit (MDK) for Project Ara, an initiative that aims to develop a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. The MDK defines the Ara platform for module developers and provides reference implementations for various design features. Main goals of the ARA platform are being low cost and creating a rich module ecosystem.
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Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter Want to Make Sure that MySQL Is “Web-Scale”
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter have decided to make sure that a relational databases is “web-scale”, so they have put their efforts behind WebScaleSQL, a branch of MySQL 5.6 Community Edition.
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AlchemyAPI and The State of Deep Learning
AlchemyAPI recently announced a taxonomy and a sentiment analysis API based on deep learning that can help transform digital content into ad inventory. IBM, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others are working in the deep learning space. We take the high level view of what deep learning is all about and what are the key advances throughout the past months in the field.
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Google publishes FarmHash, a new family of hash functions for strings
Google has just announced FarmHash, a new family of hash functions for strings. FarmHash is a successor to CityHash, from which it inherits many tricks and techniques. FarmHash has multiple goals and claims to improve CityHash on several accounts.
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Amazon Responds to Recent Google Cloud Price Cuts
Google announced major price cuts for some of their cloud services including Compute Engine, Storage and BigQuery. But their price advantage lasted for only for 24 hours because the following day Amazon slashed the prices for some of their services – EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticCache and MapReduce.
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Google Cuts Cloud Prices, Integrates CI Tools, Supports Windows and Manages VMs
Google had a Cloud Platform Live event on Tuesday (recorded here) unveiling a number of new features, improvements and a new pricing model.
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Creating Apps for Samsung Gear with Tizen SDK for Wearable
After a first generation of wearable devices built with Android, Samsung decided to bring to market a second wave of devices based on Tizen, the open source mobile operating system developed along with Intel. Now, they have released an SDK for creating applications for such devices.
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Nokia X Marks Another Android Fork
This article overviews the latest most important Android forking attempts which offer developers new opportunities but also some challenges.
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Challenges Performing Background Compilation in V8
This article includes details on the recently background compilation introduced in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine.
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Google Cloud SQL now Generally Available
Google have announced general availability of their Cloud SQL service. At launch the service comes with automatic encryption of customer data, a 99.95% uptime SLA and support for databases up to 500GB in size.
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Google Wants to Speed Up the Internet with QUIC
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections, pronounced 'quick') is a multiplexing transport protocol running over UDP with the main goal to have 0-RTT connectivity overhead.
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Google's Java Coding Standards
Google has recently released their complete definition of coding standards for Java source code. These are hard-and-fast rules that are clearly enforceable, and are followed universally within Google. It covers not only formatting, but other types of conventions and coding standards.
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The Colossal Problem with Bletchley Park and TMNOC
Today is the 70th anniversary of Colossus, the first electronic computer ever created. Its purpose was to crack the Lorenz encrypted messages, and started operations on 5th February 1944. However, all is not well at Bletchley Park as the National Museum of Computing is being increasingly marginalised in a bitter dispute.
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Google Cast SDK Adds MPEG-DASH, Adaptive and HTTP Live Streaming Support
Google has released Cast SDK with which developers will be able to integrate Chromecast into both new and existing mobile apps and websites with support for adaptive streaming, MPEG-DASH, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and SmoothStreaming.
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Google Acquires Nest: Big Data Comes to Energy
Google has acquired Nest, maker of smart thermostat and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion in cash, making it another major data source that will help Google understand how people live.