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Facebook's Vision for the Future of Work
In a recent article, Facebook showcased various technologies it has been developing to transform the way people interact and communicate. They also have the ability to unleash a radical change in the way people work together, the company
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Concurnas: the New Language on the JVM for Concurrent and GPU Computing
Concurnas is a new open source JVM programming language designed for building concurrent and distributed systems. Concurnas is a statically typed language with object oriented, functional, and reactive programming constructs. With native support for GPU computing and vectorization, Concurnas allows for building machine learning applications and high performance parallel applications.
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WebAssembly: Building a Secure-by-Default Ecosystem - Lin Clark at WebAssembly Summit
Lin Clark, principal research engineer at Mozilla focusing on WebAssembly and Rust, discussed at the WebAssembly Summit the security challenges WebAssembly must address. Clark explained how the nano-process proposal strives to provide portable, secure-by-default WebAssembly modules.
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Building a Containerless Future with WebAssembly - Kevin Hoffman at WebAssembly Summit
Kevin Hoffman discussed at the WebAssembly summit the current state of the art in WebAssembly and what can be built with it today. Hoffman peeked at a containerless future where WebAssembly modules are the de-facto unit of immutable deployment in the cloud, at the edge, and in IoT and embedded devices.
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WebAssembly, Expanding the Pie - Ben Smith at WebAssembly Summit
Ben Smith, chair of the Web|Assembly community group, recalled at WebAssembly Summit the beginnings of WebAssembly and how it has increased and refined its scope and capabilities.
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Ashley Williams Discusses the Future of WebAssembly at the WebAssembly Summit
Ashley Williams, systems engineer at Cloudflare, gave at WebAssembly Summit her understanding of the things that WebAssembly needs to be successful.
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Mozilla Launches Hubs Cloud
Mozilla’s Mixed Reality group launches a cloud version of Mozilla Hubs, their social space for virtual reality gatherings. Organisations can now deploy and customize their own instance of Mozilla Hubs. It is available on the AWS Marketplace and manages all necessary AWS resources. Mozilla Hubs allows people to meet in a 3D environment, or join using a computer or a virtual reality device.
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WebAssembly Used by Java-to-Web Compiler CheerpJ 2.0 to Port Java Applications to Browsers
LeaningTech recently released the second major iteration of CheerpJ. CheerpJ 2.0 may convert Java applications into a mix of HTML, WebAssembly and JavaScript, so that developers can run Java applications (including applets) in browsers or integrate Java libraries into web applications. CheerpJ 2.0 uses WebAssembly to improve runtime speed.
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TensorFlow Quantum Joins Quantum Computing and Machine Learning
TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) brings Google quantum computing framework Cirq and TensorFlow together to enable the creation of quantum machine learning (ML) models.
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Porting a Go-Based Face Detection Library to Wasm: Q&A with Endre Simo
Endre Simo, senior software developer and open-source contributor to a few popular image-processing projects, ported the Pigo face-detection library from Go to browsers with WebAssembly. The port illustrates the performance potential of WebAssembly today to run heavy-weight desktop applications in a browser context.
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Effective Product Development for the 2020s
Ram Sivasankaran examined the market failures of Google’s social media attempts, Kodak and Blockbusters. His analysis identified slow adoption of technology, a lack of data-driven decision-making and low customer focus. Martin Reeves and Bill Lydon have also both written about a more competitive market in the 2020s, requiring the adoption of product strategies which embrace emergent technologies.
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Developers Can Now Get Access to Google Glass Enterprise 2
Google has removed restrictions for official third-party resellers to sell Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 directly to developers. Far from opening Google Glass to consumers, this decision aims to make it easier to develop specialized enterprise applications based on Google Glass Enterprise Edition.
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Google's V8 Engine Adds Support for WebAssembly SIMD
The WebAssembly SIMD proposal has come to Google JavaScript engine V8, albeit still as an experimental feature. Exploiting data parallelism, V8 support for SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) aims to accelerate compute intensive tasks like audio/video processing, machine learning, and more.
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A-Frame 1.0 Release Adds WebXR and AR Mode
A-Frame, a web framework for building Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences on the web, recently reached the A-Frame 1.0 release with support for the WebXR specification and an AR mode for browsers which support ARCore and ARKit.
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Google's ARCore Depth API Brings Depth Maps and Occlusion to Non-Specialized Devices
Now available in closed preview, ARCore Depth API enables to create depth maps using a single camera. This feature, previously available only on devices with a depth sensor, makes it possible to realistically blend virtual objects in physical environments as well as building more natural, interactive, and helpful experiences, Google says.