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Microsoft Releases PowerApps Portals Preview, a Low-Code Customer Portal Solution
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals in preview, a low-code solution for building responsive customer portals. PowerApps Portals is the successor of Dynamics 365 Portals, which generally required developers to use complex web templates. Using PowerApps Portals, people familiar with Microsoft PowerApps can transition those skills into building customer-facing portals.
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Mozilla's Firefox Reality VR Browser Now Available on Oculus Quest, with Tracking Data Protection
Mozilla recently brought Firefox Reality, its popular open-source Virtual Reality (VR) browser, to the Oculus Quest handset. Oculus Quest users will now enjoy the privacy features included in the browser, such as Enhanced Tracking Protection.
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Smashtest: New Web App Testing DSL Focusing on Speed
Peter Tesler recently announced the first major release of Smashtest, a new domain-specific language for describing and deploying test cases. Smashtest strongly focuses on improving tester productivity by expressing succintly in the language the repetitive testing chores performed by developers. The new language comes with a test runner which runs tests in parallel, and a REPL.
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Google Adds New Integrations for the What-If Tool on Their Cloud AI Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new integration of the What-If tool, allowing data scientists to analyse models on their AI Platform – a code-based data science development environment. Customers can now use the What-If tool for their XGBoost and Scikit Learn models deployed on the AI Platform.
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How to Become Customer-Focused with Autonomous Teams
Traditional organizations are often suffering from ineffective ways of working and structures not allowing the people to collaborate in a structured way. Organizations need to find ways to enable brain power in cross-functional and autonomous teams that are able to deliver products and services with expected business impact faster, said Mia Kolmodin, founder of Dandy People.
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OpenJDK Project Valhalla Releases LW2 Prototype
Project Valhalla (OpenJDK) has released LW2, a new user-accessible prototype of the effort to align with modern hardware. InfoQ discusses this new prototype in-depth with IBM's tech lead for this new technology.
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Microsoft Quantum Development Kit Goes Open Source
Microsoft has recently made its Quantum Development Kit (QDK) open source in an effort to make “quantum computing and algorithm development easier and more transparent for developers”, Microsoft says. Microsoft QDK includes the Q# compiler, quantum libraries, and the quantum simulator.
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Microsoft's Chromium-Based WebView2 Supports Hybrid Windows Web Apps
Microsoft recently announced a preview release of WebView2, a Chromium-based control to host web content within native Windows applications. Developers building applications that support Chromium-based browsers will get the same benefits when building hybrid applications with WebView.
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Google Releases Post-Training Integer Quantization for TensorFlow Lite
Google announced new tooling for their TensorFlow Lite deep-learning framework that reduces the size of models and latency of inference. The tool converts a trained model's weights from floating-point representation to 8-bit signed integers. This reduces the memory requirements of the model and allows it to run on hardware without floating-point accelerators and without sacrificing model quality.
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QCon SF 19: Biggest Savings Deadline (July 27th) & Track Host Announcement
QCon San Francisco (Nov 11-15) is the conference for senior software engineers and architects to learn about the patterns, practices and use cases leveraged by the world’s most innovative software organizations, such as Google, Netflix, BBC, AWS, Microsoft, and GitHub. By registering before July 27 you can save $750 on the full three-day conference pass.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Data Share
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Data Share, which provides capabilities to share data with users in the own organization, as well as with other organizations. Essentially, Microsoft positions the recently announced service as a big data tool, though it’s also possible to share individual files.
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Google Acquires Elastifile to Expand Its Cloud File Storage Offering
Google recently acquired Elastifile, a provider of scalable, enterprise file storage in the cloud. With the acquisition, Google further extends its current file storage offering, Cloud Filestore, and third-party partner offerings.
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Apache NetBeans 11.1 Released as Top Level Project
Apache NetBeans 11.1 has been released, the first release available since graduating from incubation.
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The Go Language Team Rejects Its Try Proposal ahead of Schedule
At the end of quite a long public discussion, the Go team decided to reject the proposal of a built-in try statement for Go error handling. The decision came ahead of the official Go 2 schedule due to the Go community's negative reaction, writes Robert Griesemer, one of the original designers of the language.
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Robot Social Engineering: Brittany Postnikoff at QCon New York
At QCon New York, Brittany Postnikoff presented “Robot Social Engineering: Social Engineering Using Physical Robots”. Quoting findings from academic research literature, she demonstrated that humans can often be manipulated via robots. A core message of the talk was the need for security and privacy to be part of any robot's fundamental design.