CSS3 to CSS5 web styling evolution
Monday, November 11, 2024 by Austin Harris
The world of web design and development has been abuzz with conversations about the future of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as discussions around the emergence of CSS5 begin to take shape. This renewed focus comes amid curiosity about what followed CSS3, a version that significantly transformed web design back in 2009. While CSS4 never officially materialized, the web c...
Image-to-text and text-to-speech integrations explained
Saturday, November 9, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the integration of image-to-text and text-to-speech models is paving the way for groundbreaking applications. In this second installment, Joas Pambou is spearheading efforts to develop an advanced system that transforms static images and videos into interactive conversational experiences. This innovation aims to ...
User interfaces and handling risky actions
Monday, November 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
In the digital realm, where user interfaces serve as the bridge between humans and technology, the potential for error is ever-present. This is aptly summarized by Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." The challenge for designers and developers is to anticipate these potential pitfalls and design interfaces that prevent errors or minimi...
IT Assistant launches from Info-Tech Research Group
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
Info-Tech Research Group has officially launched its chatbot, which is driven by generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), "IT Assistant." The new feature provides seamless assistance on the firm's website to all of its members. IT Assistant offers an intuitive conversational interface that helps users discover precise and relevant research content and ...
Why you should care about developing on blockchain
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
Blockchain should be a core component of your toolbox as a Python developer. Why? Because Python’s smooth syntax and robust libraries go hand-in-hand with the secure and powerful technology that is blockchain. Let’s explore how Python developers can benefit from learning how to build on a blockchain. We will unpack the learning curve, the core components of ...
Low code app development in 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
Recently, low-code no-code app development tools have bridged a lot of gaps and enabled developers to overcome challenges that used to be complex or even unattainable. Some of the key areas these developer tools have made impacts in include automating code, natural language processing, image and video recognition capabilities, predictive analyti...
Illiterate coders endanger your personal data says Geonode
Thursday, February 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
Have you ever considered the proficiency of the coders behind the technology we rely on daily? Now, imagine a scenario where a staggering 72% of these coders are revealed to be illiterate in comprehending the very codes they generate.
The factory line coding paradigm
Just as one can drive a car without understanding the intricacies of an internal combustion engine...
Avatar cloud engine from NVIDIA debuts Gen AI models
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA recently introduced production microservices for the NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that allow developers of games, tools, and middleware to integrate state-of-the-art generative AI models into the digital avatars in their games and applications.
The new ACE microservices let developers build interactive avatars using AI models such as NVIDIA Omniverse ...
DIY data storage platform Koor launches
Friday, November 10, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Koor Technologies, a monitoring, management, and automation provider that makes it easy to operate large-scale data stores, officially launched as a company.
Its platform, Koor Data Control Center, now in beta, helps medium-size and large organizations that struggle with storing and managing data by themselves in a simple, cost-effective way. To lead the buildout of ...
Telerik and Kendo UI R3 updates from Progress
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Progress the provider of application development and infrastructure software, recently announced the R3 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the
most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. From modernizing legacy projects to building new applications, this new release equips developers with the tool...
Custom AI builder HumanFirst forms alliance with Google Cloud
Thursday, August 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
HumanFirst announced a new alliance with Google Cloud to aid enterprises globally in effortlessly transforming unstructured text-based data into actionable insights and robust artificial intelligence applications. HumanFirst is designed as a collaborative platform, to assist teams in data experimentation, the discovery of insights, as well as AI and prompt performa...
App Builder new controls in Blazor and more launch in Ultimate 23.1
Friday, July 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
Infragistics announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 23.1. This latest iteration of Infragistics Ultimate, the company's flagship UX and UI product, introduces significant enhancements in three key areas: App Builder, next-generation visualization experiences, and new controls in Blazor and Web Components. With Ultimate 23.1, developers can expedite project de...
Will AI make us more secure
Friday, February 3, 2023 by Monica Oravcova
ChatGPT, the dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural human language, has become another icon in the disruptor ecosystem. Gaining over 1 million registered users in just 5 days, it has become the fastest-growing tech platform ever. ChatGPT generates impressively detailed human-like written text and thoughtful prose, following a text input prompt. ...
P3 USAS 2022 times and location
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
P3 Network will host the P3 U.S. Africa Summit (P3-USAS) in Washington, D.C., on December 13 and 14. African dignitaries, US government officials, CEOs, and private enterprises will attend, establishing cross-country dialogue and lasting partnerships.
The two-day event is expected to take place at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC on December 13-14, 2022 via a ser...
New performance monitoring capabilities from Sentry
Friday, October 21, 2022 by Richard Harris
At DEX, the Developer Experience conference hosted by Sentry, the company announced a series of new capabilities to enhance its developer-centric Performance Monitoring, including Dynamic Sampling, Performance Issues, Real User Application Profiling, and Session Replay. The announcement follows a commitment to address the growing gap for developers, who are using toolin...
ezeep JavaScript library lands from ThinPrint
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Richard Harris
ezeep by ThinPrint announced the release of ezeep.js, a new JavaScript library that makes it possible for web developers to easily add printing capabilities into any web application in just a few steps.
"Desktop applications are being replaced by cloud-based web applications, and users are accessing them from all kinds of devices, smartphones...
AI and Voice predictions for 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Scott Stephenson is a dark matter physicist turned Deep Learning entrepreneur. He earned a Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Michigan where his research involved building a lab two miles underground to detect dark matter. Scott left his physics post-doc research position to found Deepgram. Stephenson talks about his 2022 predictions and what’s ...
Lawsuit from US developers sways Apple
Friday, August 27, 2021 by Richard Harris
Apple has announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers. The terms of the agreement will help make the App Store an even better business opportunity for developers while maintaining the safe and trusted marketplace users love. Apple appreciates the developer feedback and ideas that...
Kubernetes for the enterprise as Canonical sees it
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 by Richard Harris
Nearly five years ago, throngs of people in cities across America started roaming streets, parks, and other places to hunt down creatures on their cell phones. The launch of Pokémon GO on July 5, 2016, created a craze, peaking at 45 million daily users and smashing previous estimates of player traffic.
Behind the scenes, a new open-source technology played a p...
Measuring app stability to reduce technical debt
Friday, April 17, 2020 by James Smith
In the fast-paced world of software and application development, one reality holds true: errors are inevitable. Even though you try to minimize errors as much as possible, you’ll eventually overlook some of these bugs in order to get your app, or new features, to market faster.
This concept is called technical debt. Everyone has it; it’s a fact of ...
Self-learning technology for conversational AI from Boost ai
Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Boost.ai has released a self-learning technology for conversational AI. Developed and offered exclusively by boost.ai, self-learning AI overcomes the ‘cold start’ challenges of building and managing virtual agents with an automated system that intelligently analyzes and recommends both new conversational dialogs, as well as suggestions to improve existi...
Coronavirus takes down GDC and is impacting SXSW, is E3 next
Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Stuart Parkerson
San Francisco and the tech industry felt trembles and it wasn’t an earthquake or Godzilla, it was Coronavirus flexing its muscle as the leadership at GDC announced at the end of last week that they were postponing the weeklong Game Developers Conference indefinitely, which was scheduled to kick off March 16. That means that over 30,000 people won’t be attend...
Interactive voice AI technology lands from Instreamatic
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
Instreamatic, the voice dialogue marketing platform that allows media companies and advertisers to measure, manage, and monetize audio content by utilizing new interactive voice AI technology, and AirKast, a mobile publisher and ad network for broadcasters and media companies in the U.S., has announced a partnership that integrates Instreamatic into AirKa...
Blockchain company DECENT concludes launch ceremony
Friday, August 30, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
DECENT, a blockchain technology company headquartered in Slovakia, announces the conclusion of the launching ceremony for the newly established R&I center for blockchain, named China-CEEC Blockchain Centre of Excellence. The event took place on August 28, 2019, in Beijing, China. In attendance were state officials from both China and Slovakia, and the event fea...
The future of AI in advertising for mobile could be audiocentric
Friday, July 19, 2019 by Richard Harris
Instreamatic is bringing an entirely new kind of ad type to mobile apps. The platform enables AI-backed dialogue advertising. Imagine you're listening to Pandora (who they just partnered with a few weeks ago) and you hear an ad asking if you want to learn about a brand's product. You can verbally respond to the ad - yes to get more info, or no to skip and return...
Watson Ads Builder announced from IBM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
IBM announced the launch of Watson Ads Builder, a self-service advertising solution that harnesses artificial intelligence (AI) designed to empower creative agencies and developers to help them build engaging, one-on-one conversations between brands and consumers across any digital property.
Watson Ads Builder is designed to enable agencies and developers to ingest a...
Developing video games that work for everyone
Monday, January 14, 2019 by Matias Nicolas Rodriguez
Video games are interactive experiences – as the player, you can live many different lives racing fast cars, fighting great creatures and going on exciting, magical adventures. For as long as video games companies have existed, the focus has been largely on games that are fun to play.
Of course, though, we’ve all had to sit out a round and wait for a free...
Naughty or Nice app Christmas anomaly redo
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Austin Harris
The Santa Naughty or Nice Scan game, app, or whatever word you use to describe it, was first created and published in 2011 by Moonbeam Development. It was an instant hit, and it's now grown into a favorite app kids and parents download and use every year as leverage with their kids, or just to celebrate some sort of holiday tradition. O...
Telerik developer tools get many new .NET components
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the latest release Telerik tooling for .NET developers. With the new release, Progress now offers over twenty new Telerik components and expands the most popular components, including Grid and Charts. It also adds new themes including a Material inspired theme and a Mac inspired Crystal theme.
Progress has released new components including:
Web:...
GitHub Actions and other announcements from GitHub Universe
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
GitHub, the soon to be acquired by Microsoft company, has always been known for its source code repository capabilities for developers. But why just store the code on a platform when you can run it too?
At its annual developer conference, GitHub Universe, they announced Actions, which is essentially a way to help automate your development workflows. Actions use...
AI digital voice assistants stops listening as much thanks to Sensory
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sensory announced that it has made significant upgrades to the embedded AI in its sixth generation of TrulyHandsfree, boosting the technology’s wake word performance and accuracy by more than 65 percent. Additionally, TrulyHandsfree boasts improved deep-neural network training that allows for even better near- and far-field speech recognition performance in all ro...
Cloud Native SDK for Kubernetes has been launched by Pulumi
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pulumi Corporation announced the availability of its Cloud Native SDK for Kubernetes enabling a code-based approach to creating, deploying and managing applications across clouds including Microsoft AKS, Amazon EKS, and Google GKE, in addition to on-premises and hybrid environments. Pulumi also announced it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to accelerate ...
Making chatbots seem more human with a new conversational UI
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the availability of Conversational UI, a packaged set of user interface (UI) components built specifically for chatbots. The components, as part of the popular Telerik and Kendo UI developer tooling, enable .NET and JavaScript developers to create enhanced natural conversational experiences across platforms and devices, on many chatbot frameworks - in...
The issues with Blockchain and the enterprise
Thursday, May 3, 2018 by Mike Palencia
At the end of January 2018, the total market cap of the crypto-economy stood at over $500 billion. This phenomenon is occurring at a time when the vast majority of individuals involved in this space are just trading cryptocurrencies and where even that user base is not particularly big.Some people interpret these facts as a sign that this is a bubble waiting to burst. O...
Appian announces the intelligent contact center platform
Monday, April 30, 2018 by Austin Harris
Appian has announced a new product for rapidly building contact center solutions. Appian Intelligent Contact Center Platform is a new cloud platform tailored to the unique needs of contact center teams. The new platform inherits all of the core attributes of the Appian platform for building omni-channel customer engagement, case management, and intelligent automation so...