Category: Development Software

November 20, 2018

Why it matters: As more data centers are built and global energy consumption continues to rise, powering all of the high tech servers inside reliably is going to require building more resilient energy grids. Downtime is a very expensive event […]

November 15, 2018

Big tech is getting in on blockchain in a big way. Microsoft has launched a cloud-based blockchain development kit powered by Azure. “This kit extends the capabilities of our blockchain developer templates and Azure Blockchain Workbench, which incorporates Azure services […]

November 14, 2018

Microsoft today launched a preview of PlayFab Multiplayer Servers, a new Azure-based service giving game developers dynamic, on-demand scaling of multiplayer servers. Microsoft bought Seattle-based PlayFab earlier this year with a view to using it to expand Azure’s reach in […]

November 7, 2018

DevOps platform CircleCI today announced a new partner program that will open up its platform and allow third-party tools to integrate with it. In addition, the company is launching Orbs, which it describes as “the world’s first package manager designed […]

November 6, 2018

Machine learning technology has a wide variety of potential uses, and more are being discovered regularly. We’ve already seen AI beat top chess champions, take on professional DOTA 2 players, beat several lawyers at their own game, and even diagnose […]

November 5, 2018

After raising $600 million at a $7.6 billion valuation a few weeks ago, Instacart is doubling down on expanding its talent pool to square up against Amazon and others with ambitions in online grocery ordering and delivery. The company has […]

October 24, 2018

If you knew nothing (or almost nothing) about how to build an app, then get it in front of paying customers, how long do you think it might take you to learn that process? The 7-Day Android Pie App Bootcamp […]

October 23, 2018

A team of developers have made something called PlusOneCoin, a clever cryptocurrency that essentially allows owners to upvote content on two financial sites, ADVFN and Investorshub. The idea — to reward people for accessing content and, more importantly, interacting with […]

October 22, 2018

A team of AI researchers from India developed a tool to search for people in surveillance footage by height, clothing color, and gender. It’s like a search engine that can find people in a video. The scientists used deep learning […]

October 17, 2018

GITHUB HAS kicked off its annual Universe conference at the Palace of Fine Arts, alongside San Francisco’s Golden Gate. This fourth conference marks the 10th year for the open source platform and from the moment you walk in, you realise […]