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Google Announces 800M Parameter Vision-Language AI Model ALIGN
Google Research announced the development of A Large-scale ImaGe and Noisy-Text Embedding (ALIGN), an 800M-parameter pre-trained deep-learning model trained on a noisy dataset of 1.8B image-text pairs. The model can be used on several downstream tasks and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on several image-text retrieval benchmarks.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Disk Pool for Azure VMware Solution
Microsoft recently announced the preview of disk pool enabling Azure Disk Storage as a persistent storage option for Azure VMware Solution - a vSAN hyper-converged vSphere cluster. With this persistent storage option, customers have another choice for running VMware workloads on Azure.
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Google Launches the Android Game Development Kit
The Android Game Development Kit (AGDK) aims to make it easier to develop, optimize, and deliver Android games. Composed of both existing and new tools and libraries, the Android Game Development Kit is built using C and C++ APIs to maximize performance.
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Azure VM Image Builder Service Now Generally Available
Azure has recently announced the general availability of Azure VM Image Builder service, the managed service built on HashiCorp Packer to create Linux or Windows virtual machine images and be compliant with security policies across Azure and Azure Stack.
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Java News Roundup: Hazelcast Introduces New Platform, JDK 17, JDK 18 and Spring
This week's Java roundup for July 12th, 2021, features news on JDK 17, JDK 18, Hazelcast introducing a new platform, Open Liberty 21.0.0.8-beta, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.2, Piranha 21.7.0, Quarkus 2.0.2, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Apache Wicket, and the JakartaOne Livestream 2021 conference call for papers.
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QCon Plus November 2021 is Now Hybrid. Attend Online and In-Person (NY & SF)
The QCon Plus software development conference will be back November 1-5, 2021 - online and in-person. Get the chance to engage and network with professionals driving change and innovation inside the world’s most innovative software organizations.
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AWS Amplify Introduces New Full-Stack CI/CD Features to Simplify Application Development
AWS Amplify has recently introduced conditional backend builds, automatic build-time generation of cloud configuration and a simpler way to reuse backends across multiple frontend applications.
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Airbnb's Server-Driven UI Platform
Airbnb's server-driven UI (SDUI) departs from the usual approach to implement client UIs for different platforms, including Web, Android, and iOS. Instead of letting each client platform drive its UI, SDUI passes both the data and its UI representation to the client.
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InfoQ Live July 20th: Software Supply Chain for DevOps & Reducing Feature Flag Debt
How can modern DevOps practices accelerate your software delivery without the quality issues? Learn how automation, continuous testing, and supply management techniques can improve software quality and speed of delivery. Get valuable insights from world-class domain experts at InfoQ Live on July 20th.
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Assessing Remote Employee Experiences for Hybrid-Remote Work-Settings
Employers and employees have begun to prepare for their return to the office. One of the options is a hybrid-remote work setting which aims to support individual preferences when it comes to where, when, and how to work. According to Kaleem Clarkson, assessing your remote employee experience can help to make decisions on workplace flexibility policies.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Bastion Standard SKU
Azure Bastion is a fully-managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution providing customers a secure way to connect to a virtual machine using a browser and the Azure portal. Recently, the company announced the public preview of the second Stock Keeping-Unit (SKU) called Standard.
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EleutherAI Open-Sources Six Billion Parameter GPT-3 Clone GPT-J
A team of researchers from EleutherAI have open-sourced GPT-J, a six-billion parameter natural language processing (NLP) AI model based on GPT-3. The model was trained on an 800GB open-source text dataset and has performance comparable to a GPT-3 model of similar size.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 17, JDK 18, Open Liberty, Payara, Quarkus and Spring
This week’s Java roundup for July 5th, 2021 features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, Open Liberty 21.0.0.7, Payara Server Community 6.2021.1.Alpha1, Quarkus 2.0.1, Spring Framework, javax to jakarta namespace migration, the road to IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2, and the July 2021 TIOBE Index.
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Google Integrates TensorFlow Lite with Android, Adds Automatic Acceleration
Google has announced a new mobile ML stack, dubbed Android ML Platform and built around TensorFlow Lite, which aims to solve a number of problems that developers find when using on-device machine learning.
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JavaFX: One Codebase for Web, PC, and Mobile
Gluon has introduced a technology preview of JavaFX running a single codebase across PC, mobile, and now client web. These fully standalone web clients do not require any server-side portion, making them suitable for serverless hosting.