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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of the new Azure SDK, multiple Akka.NET plugins, and the streaming of Include 2021, a digital event host by Microsoft focused on diversity and inclusion. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021.
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Microsoft Announces a Hologram-Based Mixed-Reality Communication Platform Called Microsoft Mesh
During the recent virtual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Microsoft Mesh, an Azure-based cloud platform allowing developers to build immersive, multi-user, cross-platform mixed reality apps. Customers can leverage Mesh to enhance virtual meetings, conduct virtual design sessions, assist remote work better, learn together virtually, and host virtual social gatherings and meet-ups.
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Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain
Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support.
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Microsoft Opens up Its Azure Quantum Platform for Public Preview
Announced at Ignite 2019, Azure Quantum is a full-stack, cloud ecosystem enabling access to diverse quantum hardware and software. Aimed at developers, researchers, and customers, Azure Quantum is now in public preview.
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Filecoin Aims to Use Blockchain to Make Decentralized Storage Resilient and Hard to Censor
Launched in 2017, Filecoin is an open-source decentralized storage network that uses blockchain to implement a cooperative digital storage and data retrieval solution. InfoQ has spoken with Filecoin software engineer Aayush Rajasekaran, who built Filecoin's Lotus implementation.
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New Raspberry Pico Micro-Controller Brings Versatility and Small Size Factor
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released the Pico, a small, inexpensive micro-controller board based on a custom-designed RP2040 chip. The RP2040 has two ARM cores clocking at 133MHz, 264KB internal SRAM, and 2MB QSPI Flash. The Pico enables a large range of applications with a wide range of flexible I/O options (I2C, SPI, PWM, 8 Programmable I/O state machines for custom peripheral support).
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New Chrome Extension to Debug Compiled Wasm Code Stepping through C++ Source Files
Google recently presented the progress made by the Chrome DevTools teams to improve the developer experience of debugging WebAssembly files. A new extension (in beta) allows developers to debug C and C++ apps compiled to WebAssembly by stepping through the original source code.
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Mastering Blockchain 3rd Edition: Author Q&A
Originally published in 2018, Packt Publishing Mastering Blockchain aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Blockchain and targets developers, students, and anyone interested in building Blockchain applications or learning about the technology underlying blockchain apps. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with author Imran Bashir to learn more about the third edition of his book.
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Google Phases out Android Things
Google recently announced phasing out its Android Things IoT platform. New projects will not be accepted after January 5, 2021, and the Android Things console will be turned down for all projects in 2022.
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The WebThings Iot Platform Continues on Its Own after Mozilla Disengages from Iot
David Bryant recently announced that Mozilla WebThings becomes WebThings and leaves the Mozilla umbrella to become an independent community-led open source project. The project’s website also moves from Mozilla IoT webpage to its own (webthings.io). The move ensures the continuity of operations for the WebThings user base while Mozilla continues to focus on its restructuration.
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The NM180100 Enables Low-Energy Edge and Endpoint Computing with Short and Long-Range Communication
Northern Mechatronics announced NM180100, its latest LoRa Bluetooth 5 low-energy module for IoT applications. The NM180100 uses an Apollo3 Blue microprocessor to achieve low power consumption in all operating states of the device together with versatile communication capabilities in a single package module solution.
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MediaPipe Introduces Holistic Tracking for Mobile Devices
Holistic tracking is a new feature in MediaPipe that enables the simultaneous detection of body and hand pose and face landmarks on mobile devices. The three capabilities were previously already available separately but they are now combined in a single, highly optimized solution.
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Google Releases Objectron Dataset for 3D Object Recognition AI
Google Research announced the release of Objectron, a machine-learning dataset for 3D object recognition. The dataset contains 15k video segments and 4M images with ground-truth annotations, along with tools for using the data to train AI models.
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JavaScript Smart Contract Platform Agoric Integrates with Chainlink Oracle
The integration of Chainlink oracles with Agoric smart contract platform aims to enable the use of decentralized finance (DeFi) data and events in JavaScript smart contract applications.
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Markdown-Wasm, a Very Fast Markdown Parser Written in WebAssembly
Rasmus Andersson released markdown-wasm, a very fast Markdown parser ported from C to WebAssembly. markdown-wasm is twice as fast as the best JavaScript Markdown parser in one benchmark. markdown-wasm remains additionally small (31KB gzipped).