How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack.
The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...
20 AI tools every developer should be using right now
Saturday, July 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
"Reports of my job’s death are greatly exaggerated." If you’re a developer in 2025, you might feel a bit like Mark Twain updating that famous quip for the AI age. The tech world is buzzing with artificial intelligence that can write code, catch bugs, and even predict what you’re going to type next. It’s equal parts exciting an...
Universities fighting cybercrime with students
Thursday, April 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
Universities, one of the most popular targets for cybercriminals, are employing a new tool in the fight against cybercrime, their own students.
Over the past few years, universities and colleges around the U.S. have been increasingly hiring students and training them to become analysts in their security operations centers, known as SOCs. Students work alongside...
AutonomyAI to transform development with autonomous AI Agent
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
AutonomyAI has announced its launch from stealth with $4 million in pre-seed funding, with participation from Inbound Capital, Gilad Shany of IoN Partners and Vikram Makhiija, Senior Director at Google Cloud Security, among others.
Research firm IDC predicts that by 2028, the market for AI-supporting technology investments will reach $749 billion, with 67% of the $22...
Automated code refactoring platform Moderne
Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Moderne announced it has closed $30 million in Series B funding led by Acrew Capital with participation from Morgan Stanley, Amex Ventures, and TIAA Ventures, as well as all previous investors Allstate, Intel Capital, Mango Capital, and True Ventures. The funding is further validation that Moderne is emerging as the only company driving mass-scale code modernizatio...
State of AI Development report
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Vellum recently announced its inaugural State of AI Development Report which uncovers unique insights from more than 1,250 AI developers. Among other key findings, the report, which outlines topline challenges AI developers face, revealed impressive momentum in enterprise AI adoption: more than 25% of AI developers report at least one enterprise AI application...
NetLib Security predictions 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
The leading prediction for 2025 will sound familiar: Generative AI directly affects your privacy rights. In many ways, this is a twist on the typical cybersecurity problem. Rather than a hacker or a bad actor breaking in to steal your data, we are being asked to hand our keys to the companies we often trust the most: Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, and Google!
NetLib Secu...
Submit your 2025 app and software industry predictions
Friday, November 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
As we step into 2025, the tech world is buzzing with excitement, anticipation, and endless possibilities. Once again, it's time for App Developer Magazine's highly anticipated 9th Annual Predictions Issue. We’re inviting all visionaries, innovators, and tech experts in the app and software industry to share your predictions for the year ahead!
Submit yo...
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...
Video game sales by Capcom to pass 50M in 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024 by Austin Harris
Capcom is one of the biggest video game developers/publishers in the world. The Japanese company has witnessed healthy growth in its sales numbers in recent years, and this trend is going to continue in 2024. According to the numbers presented by NoKyc.com, Capcom expects to sell about 50 million games in FY 2024.
Capcom targets 50 million vi...
Increasing cyber threats from artificial intelligence
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
The UK Cybersecurity M&A market has grown significantly over the past decade, with the deal volume trend line increasing, and the sector continuing to attract significant investment from Private Equity, alongside larger corporates consolidating emerging technologies to counter increasingly sophisticated threats.
The UK National Cyber Security Centre has...
Connyct social media app for college students opens early access
Friday, October 4, 2024 by Austin Harris
What if social media could step beyond mere media consumption and instead create communities and bring people together? Linking online content with communities and real-world experiences, the new social app Connyct ‘connects’ real people with real passions, all powered by a proprietary platform integrating an extensive library of licensed music clips through...
Sony FavoriteSpace app launched for sports fans
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 by Austin Harris
Sony Group Corporation (Sony) recently launched FavoriteSpace, a new service designed to energize sports fan communities by offering new ways to enjoy sports. Making the most of Sony's technology and entertainment expertise, FavoriteSpace will deliver new sports content and create a social entertainment space where fans can share their passion for their favorites.
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Top 10 apps used the most while driving
Monday, August 19, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
It’s easy to hop in the car, buckle up, start the engine, and hit the road. It’s just as easy to put your phone down and focus on driving.
But, according to a CMT survey of over 1,200 people, 73% of Americans don’t. In 2023, Americans spent 2 minutes and 6 seconds using their phones while driving.
The Scherer family knows the painful consequences...
MarkLogic FastTrack UI toolkit from Progress
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Austin Harris
Progress, the provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, recently announced the availability of MarkLogic FastTrack, a UI toolkit for building data- and search-driven applications to visually explore complex connected data stored in the Progress MarkLogic platform. Applications built with the MarkLogic FastTrack UI toolkit help data users, analysts, ...
EU says Apple breached DMA regulations
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 by Richard Harris
The AP is among outlets reporting that Apple becomes first target of EU’s new digital competition rules aimed at big tech, reporting: “European Union regulators leveled their first charges under the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European...
Multi platform apps are becoming more popular
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Candy Crush Saga is one of the world’s most popular video games, with more than 5 billion downloads. That’s partly because gamers can play it anywhere. It offers versions for multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows: a practice known as multihoming.
Smaller developers, however, often decide not to pursue multiple platforms because it&r...
Mobile game store launching from Microsoft in 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
Months on from its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has revealed plans to launch its own mobile game store, with content including Minecraft and Candy Crush set to be available on the platform. Per Xbox president Sarah Bond, the store will be an alternative to the Apple App Store and Google Play, with its launch allowing Microsoft to break away from the res...
AI skills training predictions from OReilly Media
Friday, March 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
In the year since OpenAI launched GPT-4, there's been no shortage of predictions about its impact on the workforce. An easy reply to all this fear is AI is not going to replace humans, but humans with AI are going to replace humans without AI. While this statement is true, this attitude also blames the victim: if you lose your job, it’s your own faul...
AI 3D model search engine features coming to Toggle3D
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Toggle3D.ai, the all-in-one 3D modeling solution harnessing the power of generative AI to convert CAD files, apply 4K texturing, and seamlessly publish 4K 3D models, is excited to report a 75% jump in usage in Q4. The Toggle3D platform currently has 27,192 users, and 26,504 or 97% of the users are active and have logged in within the last 30 days. The Company is fo...
AI cooling off period projected by Helpshift in 2024
Friday, January 5, 2024 by Richard Harris
There was much hype in 2023 about AI, and as a result, all sorts of companies have jumped into the AI space - even if they’re not "AI companies." We saw some brands that were too hasty and indiscriminate in their approach to AI. They’re tinkering with AI, throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. They’re trying to put AI everywhere...
App market predictions from Softonic for 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 by Richard Harris
At Softonic, the global secure software distribution platform, we anticipate several key trends in the software and app industry in 2024. We are predicting four key trends for next year: Computers will always remain a key part of the app market, productivity apps will become more important than ever, AI will transform software development, and cybersecurity will be a cr...
Best investment cryptos revealed by Van Winkle
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
A crypto analyst who goes by Ripple Van Winkle on YouTube noted that the Ripple (XRP) crypto will see an influx of institutional money, and this, coupled with its deflationary properties could exponentially increase its price.
Everlodge (ELDG) is also making significant waves among Web3 circles with its presale, as it solves key issues found in the $280 trillion real...
Open source AI trends for 2024 according to Eclipse Foundation
Thursday, December 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
Each year I usually like to make a few predictions about where the software industry, open source, and Eclipse Foundation projects are headed. This year is going to be a little broader, as some large trends are going to impact us in ways that should be discussed and understood.
Government regulation will impact the software industry
The first trend is that for the...
Santa Calling: The Naughty or Nice Scanner App Gets a Jolly update
Friday, November 10, 2023 by Richard Harris
Ho-Ho-Hold the phone, literally! The holiday season just got a tech-savvy twist that’s going to jingle some bells. Moonbeam, the elfin tech wizards behind the beloved 'Naughty or Nice Scanner' app, have decked the digital halls with an update that's as exciting as finding the last cookie left for Santa. Yes, you read that right - Santa Claus is now jus...
Automated incident management solution updates from PagerDuty
Thursday, November 9, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
PagerDuty, Inc. recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Jeli, Inc. to transform operations with an enterprise-grade, all-in-one incident management solution. Adding Jeli’s capabilities to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud will further strengthen its value as a system of action, going beyond response to drive long-la...
Premium app recommendations delivered to Xiaomi users
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 by Richard Harris
Digital Turbine recently announced the expansion of its partnership with the International Internet Business Department of Xiaomi. Users purchasing new Xiaomi devices in most markets in EMEA, LATAM, APAC, and MENA will enjoy premium app and mobile games recommendations delivered to the palm of their hands. Digital Turbine’s technology is already delivered to over ...
OneSignal to delete inactive app users by October 31st unless you pay
Thursday, October 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
OneSignal, a company that provides a push notification service for mobile and web applications, just announced they are going to start deleting subscribers that are in-active for over 18 months unless you choose a paid subscription plan.
In an email to developers, they said: "If you'd like to retain all your push subscriptions (players), you can upgrade...
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...
State of Mobile Experience report from Embrace
Monday, July 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
Embrace released the State of Mobile Experience report detailing mobile end users' and builders' perspectives on performance issues and app experiences. The three-part study combines input from mobile engineers at industry-leading companies and app users and rich data from Embrace's mobile experience engineering platform. The insights reveal how ap...
Warning to app developers from dating app founder
Thursday, May 25, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Leading consensual non-monogamy (CNM) app 3Fun, is the victim of an attempted trademark infringement extortion plot that has included the temporary removal of the app from the iOS App Store. This unexpected disruption has greatly impacted 3Fun's business, as it loses new and current iOS users and risks losing its high ranking in the App Store.
The extortion plot ...
Q CTRL names Dave Kielpinski as Principal Quantum Control Scientist
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Q-CTRL recently announced the addition of industry trailblazer Dave Kielpinski as Principal Quantum Control Scientist. Kielpinski has spent the last 25 years contributing to and leading research projects in uncharted territories of science. In 2002, he authored a foundational paper for quantum computing, which laid out the framework for the architecture of large-scale i...
AI e learning is becoming popular
Monday, May 15, 2023 by Richard Harris
After years of steadily picking up steam, online learning is experiencing undeniable explosive growth. The market is racing toward $1 trillion, with the corporate e-learning space expected to skyrocket 250% in the coming years. As e-learning continues to expand beyond the walls of academia, another game-changing phenomenon is going mainstream in a big way: artificial in...
Impact NFT from DEA now on the PlayMining GameFi platform
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 by Richard Harris
Web3 entertainment company Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA) has announced the launch of 'Impact NFT' on the PlayMining GameFi platform. This new innovation by PlayMining allows players of Play-to-Earn (P2E) games to automatically donate a portion of their crypto earnings to a predetermined charity or person in need when an Impact NFT is used in the ga...
The future of ChatGPT
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
ChatGPT has made waves recently garnering over 100 million users but where is the technology headed over the next year? Award-winning global tech leader Kamales Lardi shares insights on the future of AI and ChatGPT.
"It's expected that advances in machine learning and natural language processing will keep enhancing the capabilities of language models like Ch...
