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Apple, Google, Amazon, And Others Team Up to Create New Smart Home Standard
Connected Home over IP is a recently announced, joint effort by Apple, Google, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance to define a connectivity standard for smart home products. To accelerate this initiative, Apple has open sourced parts of its core technology for smart home connectivity.
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Apple Open Sources ServiceTalk to the Java Community
Apple has open-sourced ServiceTalk, a JVM network application framework that provides a common and extensible networking abstraction built on top of Netty. ServiceTalk was conceived to improve low-level abstractions provided by Netty such as threading and usability. The goal of open-sourcing ServiceTalk was to provide building blocks that would enable contributions from the Java community.
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What Made the iOS 13 Launch So Buggy and How to Fix the Development Process
Apple's latest iOS release, iOS 13, was affected by a number of bugs that caused disappointed reactions by users. In a story ran by Bloomberg, sources familiar with Apple explained what went wrong in the iOS 13 release process and how Apple is aiming to fix this for the future.
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Objective-C Introduces Zero-Runtime-Cost Direct Methods
Since Swift was launched in 2014, Objective-C has known only minor changes, mostly aimed at improving its interoperability with Swift. Far from being a fringe language, though, Objective-C has recently added support for "direct" methods, which look like ordinary class methods but behave more like a C function.
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Swift Numerics Aims to Make Swift Suitable for Numerical Computing
Swift Numerics is a new open-source library for Swift that attempts to fill a gap in Swift Standard Library, writes Apple's engineer Steve Cannon. Currently, it includes two modules, for real and complex computational mathematics, but more are on the roadmap.
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Swift 5.1 Brings Module Stability, Opaque Return Types, Property Wrappers and More
While module stability is by far the most impactful new feature in Swift 5.1, the latest version of Apple's language includes a number of new language constructs, such as property wrappers and opaque return types, and a number of standard library extensions.
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Core ML 3 Extends Available Model Types, Adds On-Device Model Retrain
Announced at WWDC 2019, Core ML 3 introduces a number of new model types, many new neural network layer types, and adds support for on-device retraining of existing models using new data generated locally by the user.
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Sign In with Apple Touts Single Sign-On without Sharing Your Data
At the recent WWDC 2019, Apple announced its own Single Sign-On (SS) service, dubbed Sign in with Apple. Deemed "Apple's most significant new innovation" by Time, Sign in with Apple promises not to share any personal user data, including email addresses.
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Upcoming MacOS Catalina to Ditch Bash in Favour of Zsh
At WWDC 2019, its official developer conference, Apple announced a number of new products, including the upcoming version of its desktop OS, dubbed macOS Catalina, which is going to replace the default command line shell bash with zsh for all newly created accounts.
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Apple Announces Declarative SwiftUI Framework for Leaner, Faster, Interactive App Development
Apple recently announced at WWDC 2019 the SwiftUI framework for application development across the iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS platforms. SwiftUI relies on a declarative UI programming paradigm, aiming to drastically increase developer productivity and reduce lines of code. Moreover, SwiftUI features an XCode interactive development experience, displaying in real-time the result of their code.
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Splunk Releases Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow
Data analytics organisation, Splunk, recently released Splunk Connected Experiences which delivers insights through augmented reality (AR), mobile devices like Apple TV, and mobile applications. They also released Splunk Business Flow which enables business operations professionals to gain insights across their customer journeys and business processes.
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Swift 5 Now Officially Available
Swift 5 has recently moved out of beta with the release of Xcode 10.2, including new language and standard library features, stricter memory exclusivity access guarantees, ABI stability, and more.
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FoundationDB's Record Layer Supports Relational Database Semantics, Schema Management and Indexing
FoundationDB NoSQL database's new Record Layer supports relational database semantics, schema management, primary and secondary indexes, and query capabilities. The FoundationDB team announced last month the open source release of the Record Layer.
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Swift 5 Will Enforce Exclusive Access to Memory
Swift 5 will improve memory safety of Swift programs by ensuring variables cannot be accessed using a different name while they are being modified by another portion of the program. This change has important implications both on existing apps behaviour and on the Swift compiler itself.
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Swift 5 Now Available through Xcode 10.2 Beta
The latest Xcode 10.2 beta release includes support for Swift 5. In addition to bringing new features at the language and tooling level, this new release produces smaller binary packages for iOS 12.2 by not including the Swift runtime in the app bundle.