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Swift 3 Will Not Have a Stable ABI
Apple’s Chris Lattner, original creator of the Swift language, has recently announced on the Swift Evolution mailing list that ABI stability, one of the goals originally planned for Swift 3, will be postponed.
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Amazon's Limited-Edition Amazon Web Services Internet of Things Dash Button
Amazon announced the AWS IoT Button, a "Limited Release Programmable Dash Button" -- which immediately sold out on the first day of its availability: "The AWS IoT Button is a programmable button based on the Amazon Dash Button hardware. This device is easy to configure and designed for developers to get started with AWS IoT and many other Amazon Web Services without writing device-specific code."
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Buddy Presents IoT-Enabled Lego City at Internet Of Things World 2016
The third Internet of Things World Conference took place in Santa Clara, California, USA on May 10-12. The star of the exhibition hall may have been the Australian start-up Buddy's booth, which presented a demo of Buddyville, a smart city built with 13,000 Lego pieces, its power monitored by IoT smart sensors and managed by the Buddy Platform's scalable backend data services technology.
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DIGIT Act Defines Framework for U.S. Internet of Things Policy
The Commerce Committee in the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the "Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act." The bi-partisan bill requires "the establishment of a working group tasked with identifying proposals meant to facilitate IoT growth." The bill follows up on a March 2015 resolution that called for a national Internet of Things strategy.
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CareKit is Apple’s New Open-source Health-oriented Mobile App Framework
Following on from the announcement at the March 2016 “Let us loop you in”, Apple has open sourced its new CareKit framework, aimed to make it easier for developers to create apps that help people manage their medical conditions. Along with the new framework, Apple has also made available four iOS apps that use it.
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Intel Open Sources Arduino 101 Real Time OS
Arduino announced that Intel has released Arduino 101 real time operating system (RTOS) for hacking and studying purpose.
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Apple Requires WatchOS 2 for All New Watch App Submissions
Apple has announced that new watchOS apps submitted after June 1, 2016 must be native apps built with the watchOS 2 SDK or later. Furthermore, Apple has refreshed its review guidelines for the App Store.
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Using Swift to Build Code for Android
A “Port to Android” pull request that has been recently merged into the official Swift repository master branch makes it possible to create simple programs for Android. The pull request added an Android target for Swift stdlib and allows developers to use a Linux environment to cross-compile for Android on the ARMv7 processor.
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Combining Angular 2 with React Native
Angular 2’s architecture makes it possible to render an application with various renderers including React Native.
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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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Capital One Launches Developer Platform
Capital One launched the DevExchange Beta developer site and initial API offering last month.
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RAD Tool Kony Visualizer 7.0 Adds Support for Wearable and IoT Apps, Free Starter Edition
Kony Visualizer 7.0, Kony’s code-less mobile app design and development tool, introduces support for wearable and IoT apps and adds a Starter version that is free to download and use.
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UK's Ofcom Allocates VHF Radio Spectrum for Internet of Things Communication
The United Kingdom's Office of Communications has confirmed that spectrum within three VHF (Very High Frequency) radio bands "can be used for Internet of Things (IoT) services and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications." The statement is the result of months of study, during which commentary from stakeholders and interested parties was sought and considered, resulting in a detailed OfCom statement.
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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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Apple and FBI Court Appearance Postponed
The court appearance between Apple and the FBI, originally scheduled for later today, has been postponed a week until after Easter, following a request from the FBI to defer.