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Microsoft Embeds Artificial Intelligence Platform in Windows 10 Update
The next Windows 10 update opens the way for the integration of artificial intelligence functionalities within Windows applications. Developers will be able to integrate pre-trained deep-learning models converted to the ONNX framework in their Windows applications.
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GitHub Licensed Aims to Make it Easier to Comply with OSS Licenses
GitHub Licensed is an open-source tool that aims to simplify the chore of ensuring license soundness and documentation for all dependencies of a GitHub project.
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Rust 2018 Will Focus on Productivity, WebAssembly, Embedded, and More
The Rust core team has announced the official roadmap for Rust in 2018, which brings productivity to the fore and targets four main domains: Web services, WebAssembly, CLI apps, and embedded devices.
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Facebook Releases Open Source "Detectron" Deep-Learning Library for Object Detection
Recent releases from Facebook and Google implement the most current deep-learning algorithms to take a crack at the challenging problem of machine object detection.
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Swift 4.2 Enters Final Development Stage, Paving the Way for Swift 5
With Swift 4.1 being close to its official release in Xcode 9.3, currently available in beta, the Swift team is now focusing on the next version of the language, Swift 4.2. Besides including bug fixes and improvements to compile-time performance, the new version will further advance work on ABI stability.
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Go 2017 Survey Shows Generics and Dependency Management the Most Desired Features
The latest Go survey confirms developers see Go lack of generics and dependency management as their two biggest issues with the language. This notwithstanding, this survey marks the first time more respondents use Go professionally than for personal projects.
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State of Wyoming House Unanimously Pass Two Blockchain Bills
On February 19th, the State of Wyoming House unanimously passed two blockchain bills as a way to incentivize the industry to invest in the state's economy. The first bill, HB 70, focuses on utility tokens, offered in the form of ICOs, being exempt from state security regulations and the second, HB 19, excludes virtual currencies from the state’s money transmitter act.
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Apple Open Source SwiftNIO, a Low-Level Non-Blocking I/O Framework for Swift
At the recent try! Swift Conference in Tokyo, Apple announced the SwiftNIO project, a Netty-like non-blocking cross-platform I/O framework written in Swift.
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Google’s Cross-Platform Mobile UI Framework Flutter Now in Beta
Flutter, now in beta, is Google attempt to create a framework for cross-platform interfaces for both iOS and Android apps that behave and feel like native, although not standard, UIs.
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Microsoft Opens Its Quantum Development Kit to macOS and Linux
After making its Quantum Development Kit available to developers last December, Microsoft is now announcing its first major update, including support for macOS and Linux, interoperability with Python, and more.
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Coindesk 2018 State of Blockchain
Coindesk recently released their 2018 State of Blockchain report, which provides more than 160 pages of blockchain related research covering investments in top cryptocurrencies, enterprise blockchain solutions, raising capital through initial coin offerings, government, regulation and sentiment. InfoQ has analyzed this report and has compiled a list of key developments that impact our readership.
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Dart 2 Revamped for Mobile Development
The latest version of Google’s Dart programming language, sporting a strengthened type system, cleaned-up syntax, and an improved toolchain, is being touted by Google as the way to go for Mobile and Web app development, enabling a 2–3x productivity increase.
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Go Language 1.10 Improves Toolchain and Performance
Although the latest release of Go does not include any major changes at the language level, it provides a number of improvements to the toolchain, the Go runtime, and the standard library.
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Rust Gets Incremental Compiler and Standard Code Formatter
Rust 1.24 brings two new major features: incremental compilation and a standard code formatter, rustfmt.
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Go Language Now Accepts Patches via GitHub Pull Requests
Google has started mirroring GitHub PRs for Go into Gerrit, Go’s upstream Git server, thus making it easier for developers to contribute to Go development.