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Advice on Overcoming Zoom Fatigue
Recent studies by Stanford and Microsoft point to the reality of “Zoom Fatigue” - the physiological and psychological tiredness caused by back to back virtual meetings. Both studies explore reasons for the tiredness and present advice on reducing the impact.
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Open Source AI Can Predict Electrical Outages from Storms with 81% Accuracy
A team of scientists from Aalto University and the Finnish Meteorological Institute have developed an open-source AI model for predicting electrical outages caused by storm damage. The model can predict storm location within 15km and classifies the amount of transformer damage with 81% accuracy, allowing power companies to prepare for outages and repair them more quickly.
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CNCF Promotes GitOps Tool Flux to Incubated Status
The CNCF has promoted the Flux project from the sandbox level to incubated level. This is not only proof of widespread use of Flux, but also of its joining the GitOps family of projects and bringing a unified toolkit approach to continuous delivery.
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Google Announces General Availability of the Automation Capability for Appsheet
Recently, Google announced the general availability of AppSheets Automation, an additional capability to AppSheet, the company’s no-code development platform. With Automation, customers can automate repetitive tasks and business processes.
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Grafana Labs Changes Licenses to AGPLv3 for Grafana, Loki, and Tempo
Grafana Labs has recently announced the plan to change the licenses for their core products. They will relicense Grafana, Grafana Loki, and Grafana Tempo from the Apache License 2.0 to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3. Plugins, agents, and certain libraries will remain Apache-licensed.
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Content-Aware Image Resizing in Go and JavaScript
Oleksii Trekhleb, software engineer at Uber, recently explored the use of dynamic programming to speed up a CPU-intensive content-aware image resizing algorithm. Developers may use content-aware resizing to fit images into a variety of enclosing contexts (e.g., screen form factors, responsive layout container) while preserving the image’s key features.
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HashiCorp Boundary: Remote Access Management Service Adds OIDC Support
HashiCorp has announced the release of version 0.2 of Boundary, their open-source identity-based access management service designed for dynamic infrastructure. This release includes support for OIDC authentication methods. The Boundary Desktop application is now at version 1.0 for macOS.
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Java News Roundup - Week of April 19th, 2021
This week's Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK promoting JEP 412 to Candidate status, Object Computing introducing JHipster Micronaut Blueprint 1.0, point releases for GraalVM and Spring Cloud Horton, a new alpha release for Quarkus 2.0, and a call for papers for both EclipseCon and ApacheCon that are currently open.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of April 19th, 2021
This past week was marked by the announcement of Visual Studio 2022, the first 64-bit version of the popular .NET IDE. InfoQ examined this and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 19th, 2021.
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Google Logica Aims to Make SQL Queries More Reusable and Readable
Logica is a Datalog-like declarative logic programming language for database querying. It supports the creation of reusable abstractions to build complex queries and compiles to SQL, thus making it suitable for wide application.
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IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder Develop OpenBuilt, a Platform for the Construction Industry
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder recently announced a collaboration to develop OpenBuilt, a platform for the construction industry supply chains built on the hybrid cloud platform Red Hat OpenShift and running on IBM Cloud.
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Microsoft Announces 64-Bit Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft has announced that the forthcoming Visual 2022 will finally be 64-bit. VS2022 will have full support for the upcoming .NET 6, C++20, ASP.NET Blazor, and .NET MAUI. The first preview release of VS2022 is scheduled for third quarter 2021.
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OSGi Working Group Settles into New Home at Eclipse Foundation
After shipping the OSGi Core Release 8 in December, the OSGi Working Group (WG) is now incubating at the Eclipse Foundation. The OSGi WG (previously named “OSGi Alliance”) announced the move to Eclipse last October. It has already ratified the charter, created two committees and two working groups, and migrated its code repositories.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Q&A with Jean-Philippe Aumasson
While quantum computing is still in its infancy, post-quantum cryptography is a field of growing interest for companies and research institutions. InfoQ has spoken with cryptography researcher Jean-Philippe Aumasson to understand where post-quantum crypto is headed.
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Fostering Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Building intercultural relationships are so important to success in the workplace and world today, yet many people are hesitant or unsure of how to build relationships with those who are different from themselves. The first step is to reflect on yourself and notice where and how you spend your time and resources.