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Google Introduces Machine Images to Simplify Making and Restoring Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Google announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource containing all the information users need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, and thus reducing the amount of time required for managing environments. The feature in Compute Engine is currently in beta, and not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy.
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Chrome 81 Release Features New AR and NFC Features, and Redesigned HTML Form Controls
Google recently released Chrome 81 on desktop and mobile phones. This latest release provides new augmented reality (AR) features and new NFC features, and also shipped with redesigned HTML form controls. The redesign aims at improving the look and feel of form controls, and providing better accessibility and touch support.
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OCI Releases Micronaut 1.3 Featuring Micronaut Data 1.0
Object Computing, Inc. released Micronaut 1.3 featuring the milestone release of project Micronaut Data 1.0, a database access toolkit using Ahead of Time compilation to pre-compute queries for repository interfaces executed by a lightweight runtime layer. Micronaut Data provides an API for translating a Query model into a query at compile time and provides runtime support for supported databases.
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Java 14 Released
Oracle has released Java 14, the latest non-LTS release of one of the world's most popular programming languages.
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JavaScript Face Detection with face-api.js
The face-api.js JavaScript module implements convolutional neural networks to solve for face detection and recognition of faces and face landmarks. The face-api.js leverages TensorFlow.js and is optimized for the desktop and mobile web.
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GitHub to Acquire Npm in an Effort to Provide Continuity and Improvement
GitHub's CEO Nat Friedman has announced an agreement to buy npm, the default package manager for the Node.js ecosystem. Npm will remain free to use and will get the required investments to keep it fast and reliable, says Friedman, as well as more secure.
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Researchers Publish Survey of Explainable AI
A team of researchers from IBM Watson and Arizona State University have published a survey of work in Explainable AI Planning (XAIP). The survey covers the work of 67 papers and charts recent trends in the field.
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Successful Remote Working
For both employees and employers, remote work requires intentional design and implementation to be effective. People find remote work challenging because the established mindset says that being in an office is how work gets done. Despite the challenges, when remote work is done well, the advantages to employees and employer are sufficient to make it worthwhile.
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AzureRM Terraform Provider 2.0 Released with Custom Timeouts and Improved Resource Importing
HashiCorp announced the release of version 2.0 for the AzureRM Terraform Provider. This release includes an overhaul of how virtual machines and virtual machine scale set resources are described, an introduction of custom timeouts, and the removal of a number of deprecated resources. There are also changes to improve how existing resources are handled while running terraform apply.
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Amazon Updates Transcribe with Automatic Redaction of Personally Identifiable Information Feature
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, allowing customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Recently, the public cloud provider made a significant update to the service with an automatic redaction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) feature.
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GraalVM 20.0: Run Tomcat as Native Image on Windows
GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared runtime to execute applications written in multiple languages like Java, Python, and JavaScript, has released major version 20.0 with full support on Windows Platform. In a related news, Apache Tomcat 9 has announced full support for GraalVM native image generation that includes the container.
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Flutter Golden Tests Powering Automated UI Testing at eBay
Automating UI tests to ensure the visual appearance of your app is correct on all supported devices and form factors is usually challenging. Flutter golden tests may help simplify this task, as eBay's approach to UI screenshot testing for its Motors app shows.
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Kubernetes Usage Expanding in Large and Small Companies, CNCF Survey Shows
Survey results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed accelerating adoption of Kubernetes and containers, especially in production environments. This echoed the findings from the new, enterprise-focused, State of Kubernetes 2020 report from VMware.
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OpenSilver: Open-Source Silverlight via WebAssembly
Earlier this month, Userware released the first version of OpenSilver, an open-source reimplementation of Silverlight. OpenSilver runs on current browsers via WebAssembly, without requiring any additional plug-ins. The current version of OpenSilver is available as "Technology Preview." It covers about 60% of the original Silverlight API and is available as a Visual Studio 2019 extension.
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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.