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TRON-highlights-from-2023

TRON highlights from 2023


Thursday, January 25, 2024 by

TRON achieved a series of developments and collaborations that have enhanced its position in the Web3 space. The following are highlights from the year 2023. TRON highlights from 2023: Network growth and stablecoin dominance The TRON network has seen proper growth, with a 54% increase in accounts, now exceeding 204 million. The total transaction volume reached ove...


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Developers invited to Epson US Innovation Challenge


Wednesday, June 21, 2023 by

Offering an attractive ecosystem of over tens of millions of printers and scanners sold across more than 150 countries, Epson announced it will be hosting its second U.S.-based "Epson Innovation Challenge," offering developers a unique opportunity to partner with a trusted brand with global reach. Held in San Francisco, San Jose and remotely from July 12-...


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Web3 developer ecosystem is accelerating globally


Friday, May 6, 2022 by

Rockaway Blockchain Fund (RBF), a European venture capital firm that invests in digital assets and infrastructure, has highlighted that Web3 developer activity is accelerating globally, with Europe set to become a major hub. Speaking ahead of the Gateway to Cosmos Conference and Hackathon in Prague, the VC firm outlined how Europe’s presence as a leading tech h...


Blockchain-application-platform-Lisk-announces-AmpliFire-event

Blockchain application platform Lisk announces AmpliFire event


Wednesday, December 8, 2021 by

Lisk will announce a variety of significant platform developments and updates at Lisk's AmpliFire event to coincide with the next phase of its interoperability roadmap. The event, which takes place in person in Berlin on Thursday, December 3rd, and on YouTube, will unveil improvements to the Lisk blockchain application platform as well as the ultimate vision for Lis...


BEASY-and-RAG-team-up

BEASY and RAG team up


Friday, November 12, 2021 by

Blockchain Made Easy, LLC (dba BEASY) and Recording Artist Guild (RAG.ORG) announced that RAG.ORG and Lookhu.com have signed a multi-year enterprise licensing agreement with BEASY to deliver the utility of blockchain to RAG's more than 20,000 members. BEASY and RAG team up "We've sought tirelessly to understand and deliver the bene...


Number-of-Cryptocurrency-wallets-being-created-is-growing

Number of Cryptocurrency wallets being created is growing


Wednesday, November 10, 2021 by

The rise of the cryptocurrency sector over the past year has attracted more investors intending to get involved. The entry of new investors is partly highlighted by the cryptocurrency wallets created over the period. Number of Cryptocurrency wallets being created grew by 22M in 2021 According to data compiled by Finbold, the digital assets custody platform Blockch...


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Free online education from Test Automation University


Wednesday, November 3, 2021 by

Test Automation University marks the 100,000 student milestone with a virtual celebration event with workshops, interactive sessions with instructors, giveaways, and more. Free online education from TAU Applitools, provider of the next-generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI and Ultrafast Test Cloud, announced that Test Automation University ...


Most-searched-NFTs-of-2021

Most searched NFTs of 2021


Tuesday, November 2, 2021 by

Everything went digital last year, including art. Throughout 2021 interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) increased dramatically, with many celebrities and artists releasing their own series of virtual work. The influx of interest has caused the cost of NFTs to skyrocket and this year the most expensive of all time were sold, demonstrating serious investor appetite. O...


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HackOnLisk2 hackathon from Lisk


Monday, November 1, 2021 by

Lisk, an open-source platform that enables developers to build blockchain applications in JavaScript, has announced its high-profile judgment panel for its developer-focused hackathon, HackOnLisk2. The hackathon, which aims to bolster innovation in the blockchain space by providing funding and consultation to participating teams, will welcome judging representatives fro...


2021-hackathon-from-NEAR

2021 hackathon from NEAR


Friday, August 13, 2021 by

NEAR announced the first in a series of NEAR MetaBUIDL hackathons with $1 million in prizes until the end of the year. The first MetaBUIDL Hackathon runs from Aug 27 to Sep 12. Registration is open now. Speakers and Activities at the 2021 hackathon from NEAR They think it's a great opportunity for anyone interested in solving real-world problems that coul...


YourBase-emerges-from-Stealth-to-optimize-developer-productivity

YourBase emerges from Stealth to optimize developer productivity


Thursday, June 10, 2021 by

YourBase emerged from stealth mode with $5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Unusual Ventures and Fathom Capital. YourBase offers software testing acceleration built on a “Code Dependency Graph” that automates the test selection process for large, complex codebases. Now developers can get fee...


IQVIA-Covid19-healthcare-app-challenge

IQVIA Covid19 healthcare app challenge


Wednesday, June 2, 2021 by

IQVIA has announced details surrounding the COVID-19 Healthcare App Challenge, a hackathon-style competition for developers that wish to leverage the recently released IQVIA HealthCare Locator Software Development Kit. Starting today, developers can sign up for the hackathon here and will have until June 28 to develop an app to help consumers locate and engage healthcar...


Modern-cross-browser-testing-helps-engineers-test-faster

Modern cross browser testing helps engineers test faster


Thursday, October 1, 2020 by

Applitools announced an industry report empirically proving that modern cross browser testing powered by Visual AI helps engineers test 18.2x faster across the full test cycle including writing, running, analyzing, reporting, and maintaining tests. Data for the report was sourced from 203 engineers across 75 countries who spent 3,112 hours completing the Ultrafast Cr...


Applitools-ultrafast-cross-browser-testing-hackathon

Applitools ultrafast cross browser testing hackathon


Wednesday, May 27, 2020 by

Applitools announced the industry’s first modern cross browser and cross device testing hackathon. Focused on the use of Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, this virtual event seeks to educate and upskill developers and test automation engineers all over the world to test at incredible speeds and deliver better quality software faster and for less money than they do tod...


Impact-of-Visual-AI-on-test-automation

Impact of Visual AI on test automation


Tuesday, April 7, 2020 by

Applitools, the provider of Visual AI-powered test automation, has announced an industry report that reveals the impact of Visual AI on the performance of the most popular open-source test frameworks - Cypress, Selenium, and WebdriverIO. Data was sourced from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries, spending an average of 11 hours during November 2019. This amounts t...


Adjust-hires-Ville-Mikkola-as-Head-of-CAAF

Adjust hires Ville Mikkola as Head of CAAF


Monday, March 23, 2020 by

Adjust announced a new senior hire to spearhead its Coalition Against Ad Fraud (CAAF). Ville Mikkola joins as Head of CAAF, the industry-wide alliance founded by Adjust to tackle ad fraud.  Ad fraud stands as one of the biggest threats to marketing success, having claimed an estimated $42 billion of ad dollars in 2019. Founded by Adjust in 2017, CAAF is a coalit...


Iowa-caucus-app-woes-from-a-developer-perspective

Iowa caucus app woes from a developer perspective


Friday, February 21, 2020 by

Whether the issues behind the Iowa Democratic Caucus app debacle were specific to UX, connectivity, traffic, or just good ol’ fashioned reluctance to embrace the technology, the ramifications of this mess will be felt for a long time – the hanging chad of the new decade. So are apps out? Absolutely not, but things are going to have to change. Applications...


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Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon winners


Thursday, February 6, 2020 by

Applitools announced the 100 winners and 10 Grand Prize winners of the Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon. The hackathon’s objective was to see which of the participants could comprehensively catch and fix functional and visual bugs using both their preferred code-based approach and Visual AI.  Out of 3,000 participants and 300 finalists, the top 100 winn...


Microsoft-DART-team-tracks-77k-active-web-shells

Microsoft DART team tracks 77k active web shells


Thursday, February 6, 2020 by

In a blog post promoting the capabilities of its commercial security platform, Microsoft said that on a daily basis the company's security team detects and tracks on average around 77,000 active web shells, spread across 46,000 infected servers. According to ZDNet, these numbers are staggering, since the 77,000 figure is far larger than any previous reports about...


Data-Privacy-Day-2020-is-here

Data Privacy Day 2020 is here


Tuesday, January 28, 2020 by

Data Privacy Day is here, and with the recent implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act, the timing could not be better to discuss the importance of taking steps to protect sensitive data while also keeping personal data private and secure. Similar to GDPR, CCPA will have a profound impact on data privacy and protection, making this year’s Data Priv...


Applause-Platform-improves-quality-assurance-platform

Applause Platform improves quality assurance platform


Thursday, January 9, 2020 by

Quality assurance (QA) is a rapidly changing field, a result of dev and engineering teams moving faster and releasing more frequently. Applause – the leading crowdtesting provider – is looking to evolve along with QA. The company recently launched Applause Labs, an innovation engine where it hopes to develop new concepts for companies’ QA processes. ...


How-to-get-user-engagement-in-2020

How to get user engagement in 2020


Thursday, January 2, 2020 by

The most difficult challenge for every app developer to overcome is: How do I get my app in front of a customer so that they can engage with it? UA campaigns are notoriously expensive and invariably suffer from diminishing returns. ROAS at the start of a campaign falls somewhere between 200% and 300%, but soon enough it peters out. I can’t tell you how many times ...


How-cloud-computing-is-changing-the-developer-world

How cloud computing is changing the developer world


Thursday, January 2, 2020 by

Cloud computing is continuing to change the way the world builds and interacts with technology, and the developers that make that possible are under more pressure than ever to keep innovating and pushing boundaries. With the launch of the latest version of its Cloud Pak for Data, IBM is helping them do just that, all while prioritizing what matters most: data privacy an...


2019-Quantum-Computing-Industry-Retrospective

2019 Quantum Computing Industry Retrospective


Tuesday, December 31, 2019 by

Michael Biercuk, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL, is considered one of the world's leading experts in quantum computing. As we round the corner into 2020, he shares his thoughts on the year in quantum computing and predictions for next year below. The most significant industry accomplishments  "I think there is no doubt that the demonstration of&...


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$100M open source fund via Codefresh launches


Monday, December 2, 2019 by

From the deck of the HMS Surprise pirate ship at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, on the eve of Kubecon, Codefresh announced the establishment of a $100 Million Open Source Fund offering grants up to $1 Million. This “heave-ho” is designed to foster the growth and expediency of open source projects from development and deployment to ongo...


Live-Debugger-for-DevOps-launches-from-Codefresh

Live Debugger for DevOps launches from Codefresh


Monday, November 25, 2019 by

Creating CI/CD pipelines is often considered a frustrating and time-consuming process. Each change has to be saved, committed and the pipeline rerun from the beginning. DevOps engineers are missing a key component that has been available for software developers for years: debugging breakpoints, so Codefresh is introducing the world’s first live CI/CD debugging too...


Threat-of-quantum-computing-hackathon-to-award-$100,000

Threat of quantum computing hackathon to award $100,000


Monday, November 25, 2019 by

Communique Laboratory Inc. launched its quantum hackathon tackling the threat of quantum computing. Cybersecurity companies, computer science students and hackers have begun challenging the Company’s ‘quantum-safe’ encryption in a $100,000 hackathon.  The Company hosted an innovation celebration event with technology presentations from industry...


Universal-source-code-search-engine-emerges

Universal source code search engine emerges


Friday, November 22, 2019 by

Sourcegraph announced a new collaboration with GitLab, along with the world’s first universal source code search engine. The company has experienced exponential growth fueled by its expanding community of over 10,000 paid developers and tens of thousands of free open source developers who actively use its platform. “GitLab and Sourcegraph are both oriente...


Experience-Center-worldwide-launches-from-Microsoft

Experience Center worldwide launches from Microsoft


Monday, November 18, 2019 by

Microsoft has also reimagined the future of work by creating a blueprint for productivity, efficiency, accessibility, flexibility, and collaboration for organizations in the region. In a world where we can expect more than 40 billion devices generating nearly 80 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025, organizations and industries will need to quickly adopt new tec...


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Hackathon to award over 40k in prizes


Monday, November 11, 2019 by

Applitools issued the “Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon” to identify and reward the top 100 functional and visual test engineers on the planet. To enter, participants must write test automation scripts against a demo web app using two separate approaches: a traditional code-based testing approach using Selenium, WebdriverIO, or Cypress and an image-based test...


Amazon-to-launch-Ownera-Digital-Securities-API

Amazon to launch Ownera Digital Securities API


Monday, September 23, 2019 by

Ownera, the institutional-grade blockchain network for digital securities (AKA Security Tokens), has announced it will be releasing its Digital Securities API utilizing the Amazon Managed Blockchain service running HyperLedger Fabric. Ownera is a network where all nodes will be regulated financial entities (such as banks, asset managers and exchanges), who underwrite an...


JOIN-2019-conference-details-released

JOIN 2019 conference details released


Friday, September 13, 2019 by

Looker has announced details for JOIN 2019, its annual three-day conference designed to offer a unique opportunity to explore the latest in practical data skills, network with fellow data enthusiasts and engage with leaders across the data community. In-depth sessions will be led by industry experts from companies including Slack, Namely, Chicago Cubs, WW...


Fintech-and-developers-get-challenged-by-Finastra-appathon

Fintech and developers get challenged by Finastra appathon


Thursday, July 11, 2019 by

Finastra has issued a challenge to Fintechs and developers with its first-ever public appathon, inviting anyone with a good idea to build an application that solves a common pain point for North American community banks and credit unions, using its FusionFabric.cloud platform. Participants will use Finastra’s US Banking APIs, accessible for free on the FusionFa...


Making-edge-computing-easier-to-deploy-and-access-for-developers

Making edge computing easier to deploy and access for developers


Tuesday, June 11, 2019 by

MobiledgeX announced its “Edge Experience” developer discovery program to simplify how developers and device makers integrate edge performance and test in real edge networks globally. The program kicked off recently with MobiledgeX providing code for the first edge computing hackathon, hosted by Telecom Infra Project (TIP) at Facebook’s campus in Menlo...


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Game developers get the WRLDS SDK for free


Monday, October 15, 2018 by

WRLDS, the company that develops smart toys and platforms for connected play, announced the release of a new software development kit (SDK). The SDK will be free and easy to use and will give game developers a completely new medium to work with: an augmented reality (AR) and bluetooth-enabled connected ball with a bounce return rate of more than 70 percent.   &ld...