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Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials Align with Android 13
Microsoft made the announcement that Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have been updated to target Android 13, aligning with Google's requirement for new Android apps to target at least Android 13 starting from August 2023. The update aims to ensure compatibility with the latest Android version and provide a smooth transition to the future of cross-platform development, .NET MAUI.
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Adopting Artificial Intelligence: Things Leaders Need to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help companies identify new opportunities and products, and stay ahead of the competition. Senior software managers should understand the basics of how this new technology works, why agility is important in developing AI products, and how to hire or train people for new roles.
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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 5.1.0: Lazy View and Keyboard Extensions
The latest release of the .NET MAUI Community toolkit, version 5.1.0, brings two main features and several bug fixes for the last version.
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Google's Universal Speech Model Performs Speech Recognition on Hundreds of Languages
Google Research announced Universal Speech Model (USM), a 2B parameter automated speech recognition (ASR) model trained on over 12M hours of speech audio. USM can recognize speech in over 100 languages, including low-resource languages, and achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Java Gets a Boost with the Record Pattern, Enabling More Expressive Coding
JEP 440, finalizing Record Patterns, has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted status for JDK 21, following feedback-driven enhancements in JEP 432 and JEP 405. Record patterns now allow for powerful data navigation and processing when used with type patterns. The main change from JEP 432 is the removal of record patterns in the header of an enhanced for statement.
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GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations, and More
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Josh Long at Devoxx UK: Showcasing Bootiful Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3
At his Devoxx UK presentation, Josh Long - Spring developer advocate at VMWare - coded his way through the new features coming in Spring Framework 6, and Spring Boot 3, emphasizing the benefits at the Java language level in the latest versions starting with version 17. He showcased the graphql support, the new declarative client, the new tracing, the native support and the new jakarta ee baseline.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Updates, Spring Data 2023.0, JobRunr 6.2, Micronaut 4.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for May 8th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.22, Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Shell releases, Micronaut 4.0-M3, Quarkus 3.0.3, Eclipse Vert.x releases, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing releases, Groovy 4.0.12, Tomcat releases, Maven 3.9.2, Piranha 23.5.0, Reactor 2022.0.7, JobRunr 6.2, JDKMon releases and Devoxx UK.
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GitHub Overhauls Code Search Using New Search Engine
GitHub has introduced its new code search feature, including a redesigned search interface, a new code view, and a search engine rebuilt from scratch to be faster, more capable, and to better understand code, says GitHub software engineer Colin Merkel.
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Holly Cummins at Devoxx UK: How Would the Business Benefit from Your Greener Java Application?
At her Devoxx UK presentation, Holly Cummins, senior software principal engineer at Redhat, presented approaches that could make Java applications more cost and energy efficient. Moreover, the business would benefit too. Showcasing the work done by her team with quarkus she states that choosing wisely between the JVM or native options in your application can save up to two-times costs and carbon.
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Google Previews Studio Bot, a Coding Bot for Android Development
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
Hugging Face and ServiceNow have partnered to develop StarCoder, a new open-source language model for code. The model created as a part of the BigCode initiative is an improved version of the StarCoderBase model trained on 35 billion Python tokens. StarCoder is a free AI code-generating system alternative to GitHub’s Copilot, DeepMind’s AlphaCode, and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Azure Functions Upgrades and .NET 8
Microsoft has released a new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant in Visual Studio, which provides a set of new enhancements and support for different platforms and frameworks. The tool now supports .NET 8 and it also brings enhancements like an upgrade for Azure Functions, alongside .NET MAUI, WinUI and support for ARM64.
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OpenAI's Open-Source ChatGPT Plugin - Q&A with Roy Miara
OpenAI recently announced plugin support for ChatGPT, allowing the language model to access external tools and databases. The company also open-sourced the code for a knowledge retrieval plugin, which organizations can use to provide ChatGPT-based access to their own documents and data.
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Quarkus 3.0 Released: Improving Cloud-Native Java Development with Jakarta EE 10 Support
Following six alpha releases, a beta release, and two release candidates, Red Hat has launched the highly anticipated Quarkus 3.0 release this past week. This update brings a host of new features, including support for Jakarta EE 10, MicroProfile 6.0, Hibernate ORM 6.0, and Hibernate Reactive 2.0.