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LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite, a Python-based Forecasting Library
LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts.
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Google Open-Sources Fully Homomorphic Encryption Transpiler
Google has open-sourced a general-purpose transpiler able to convert high-level code to be used with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
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InterCon 2021 Panel Discussion: Is AI Really Beneficial for End Users?
The recent InterCon in Las Vegas featured a panel discussion titled "Is AI Really Beneficial For End Users?" Some key takeaways were that AI brings benefits by increasing productivity and assisting with problem solving, and that there is a need for governance and ethics in AI and a concern over bias in training datasets.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
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.NET MAUI Preview 5: Animations, Ported UI Components and Single Project Templates Updates
One month after Microsoft Build and Preview 4, the .NET MAUI team continued the progress with .NET Multi-platform App UI and now Preview 5 is here . It brings animations and the view transformation support, a couple of ported UI Components from the renderer architecture of Xamarin.Forms, and Single Project Templates updates and improvements.
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Java News Roundup - Week of June 21st, 2021
This week’s roundup features news from JDK 17, JDK 18, Java Mission Control 8.0.1, Kotlin 1.5.20, Hibernate Reactive 1.0.0.CR7, PrimeFaces 6.2.30, 8.0.11, and 10.0.3, Eclipse GlassFish 6.2.0, WildFly 24, Micronaut 3.0.0-M2, and multiple point releases on several Spring projects.
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Xcode 13 Extends Team Collaboration and Source Editing Features
Xcode 13 brings improved Git integration, support for GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab collaboration features, new editor capabilities, and Vim keybindings.
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InterCon 2021 Keynote: AI Applications in Business
At the recent InterCon in Las Vegas, the opening keynote session featured two talks focused on AI applications in business. The key takeaways were: identifying the business objective is key, access to good data is a major challenge, and AI has great potential for providing value to end customers.
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AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS introduced a new Workflow Studio for its Step Functions offering. Through the AWS Management Console, developers can now access a visual builder to create Step Functions workflows.
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AWS Key Management Service Introduces Multi-Region Keys
AWS has recently announced the availability of KMS multi-region keys, a new feature for client-side applications that makes encrypted data portable across regions.
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Uno Platform 3.8: New WinUI Controls and Layout for the Cross-Platform UI
Uno Platform 3.8 version release brings a lot of exciting additions to the platform, such as WinUI controls and layouts like CalendarDatePicker and CalendarView controls, Grid controls, 2x performance, new Linux scenario and more. With this release, Uno is approaching one step closer to the #WinUIEverywhere vision.
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Istio 1.10: Q&A with Release Manager Sam Naser
Istio launched version 1.10 last month. Key new features include discovery selectors, revision tags, and sidecar networking changes to improve day-two operations for Istio users.
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Engineering Your Organization through Services, Platforms, and Communities
Organizations need to be able to sustainably deliver value to their customers and business; that is why they exist, said Randy Shoup at QCon Plus May 2021. To do so, they need to be able to effectively and efficiently leverage the “resources” they have at their disposal- their people, teams, and technology.
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Jakarta EE 9.1 and the Road to Jakarta EE 10
The Jakarta EE Working Group has announced the release of the Platform and Web Profile specifications of Jakarta EE 9.1. This is the first incremental point release of Jakarta EE in which developers may now develop and deploy Jakarta EE 9.1 applications on JDK 11 and JDK 8. Development has already started on Jakarta EE 10 in which many of the specifications are being updated.
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Scala 3 Overhauls Language for Better Developer Experience
Eight years in the making and the first major release since version 2.13, Scala 3.0 delivered a "complete overhaul of the Scala language" with updates to the syntax, the type system, metaprogramming, and language features. It is binary backwards-compatible with Scala 2.13 but not fully source-compatible. The new compiler can automatically migrate old code and report any remaining issues.