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Why SLOs are a key tool

Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris

Modern digital products now operate at scales that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago. YouTube processes over 500 hours of video every minute, Amazon processes around 12 million orders each day, and large cloud platforms and advertising systems serve billions of real-time requests. At this level, a failure is a business risk, a user experience problem, an...

Comet web browser launched by Perplexity

Friday, August 15, 2025 by Austin Harris

Perplexity recently introduced Comet, a new web browser designed for the modern internet experience. Over the past three decades, the internet has evolved from a static library of pages to a dynamic, interactive space where people live, work, and connect. As the internet becomes an extension of human thought, the tools used to navigate it have not kept pace. Comet was c...

OpenAI launches ChatGPT study mode for students

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

A new way to learn in ChatGPT that offers step by step guidance instead of quick answers. OpenAI recently introduced study mode in ChatGPT, a learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step instead of just getting an answer. Starting on July 29th, it’s available to logged in users on Free, Plus, Pro, Team, with availability in ChatGPT Edu com...

ChatGPT agents bridging research and action

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Austin Harris

You can now ask ChatGPT to handle requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” and “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck.” ChatGPT will intelligently navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in...

Simple rules to fix code reviews

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

In a software development landscape increasingly augmented by AI-generated code, code reviews remain a critical safeguard for quality, collaboration, and team coherence. Yet despite decades of collective experience, code reviews often become inefficient bottlenecks. Sergey Tselovalnikov, a seasoned engineer, proposes that we don’t need more checklists or “be...

Web Guide search experiment from Google

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Austin Harris

Google has unveiled an experimental new feature called Web Guide, part of its ongoing Search Labs initiatives. Designed to reshape how users engage with the search engine results page, Web Guide leverages artificial intelligence to organize links and resources more intelligently. This experiment aims to help people discover information on the web more efficiently by gro...

Apple age rating update

Monday, August 11, 2025 by Richard Harris

Apple recently announced updates to the age rating system for apps and games available on the App Store. Aimed at improving safety and age-appropriate access for users of all ages, including children, the revised system introduces more granular rating categories and new evaluation criteria. Apple age rating update in App Store Connect: More detailed rating categories...

DOGE API key leak

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 by Austin Harris

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), inadvertently exposed a private API key for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, in a public GitHub repository over the weekend. The leak granted potential access to over 50 large language models (LLMs) developed by xAI, raising serious concerns about operat...

Jack Dorsey unveils Sun Day

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 by Austin Harris

Jack Dorsey, known globally as the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, has been on a creative tear lately, launching back-to-back experimental apps. The latest addition to his portfolio is Sun Day, a simple yet intriguing app aimed at helping users track their sun exposure, monitor UV levels, and estimate vitamin D synthesis, all from their smartphones. Available...

OpenAI Codex overview

Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Austin Harris

OpenAI recently announced the launch of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex assists with writing features, answering questions about codebases, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review, all within individual cloud sandbox environments preloaded with user repositories. OpenAI Codex overvie...

Swift Project Launches Android Workgroup

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Austin Harris

The Swift programming language community has announced the formation of the Android Workgroup, a new initiative dedicated to making Android an officially supported platform for Swift. This landmark development marks a significant step forward in Swift's evolution as a truly cross-platform language for modern software development. Swift Project Launches Android Wo...

BLACK app empowers student collaboration

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 by Austin Harris

In a time when academic pressure and digital distractions are at their peak, students are increasingly in need of tools that simplify communication, streamline resource sharing, and foster collective learning. Rising to meet this challenge is BLACK, a student-built mobile application developed with one clear goal, to transform how students collaborate. The creator be...

Fortnite returns to iOS

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by Richard Harris

Fortnite has returned to the iOS App Store in the United States after nearly five years of absence, marking a turning point in the strained relationship between Epic Games and Apple. This reappearance is not just a routine relisting of a popular mobile game, it signifies a dramatic shift in the power struggle between large tech platforms and the developers who rely on t...

AI harms addressed by Anthropic

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 by Austin Harris

As AI capabilities rapidly advance, understanding and addressing the full spectrum of potential impacts becomes increasingly important. Today, we're sharing insights into our evolving approach to assessing and mitigating various harms that could result from our systems, ranging from catastrophic scenarios like biological threats to critical concerns like child safet...

AI will change your future

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 by Richard Harris

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, along with all its controversies, questions and ambiguity. It is rising in the workplace and changing the way we work. Many researchers have looked at potential downsides, but few have looked at the upsides. We interviewed three Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty members with expertise in different ac...

AGI coding predictions for 2025

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 by Richard Harris

In 2024, there was much excitement about AI code assistance, and also a realization that it poses major risks. Suddenly non-experts could act like expert developers and ask AI to generate a Python script, for example. Without understanding the nuances they simply didn’t know what they didn't know. Often these users failed to ask the right questions, and the AI...

Image-to-text and text-to-speech integrations explained

Saturday, November 9, 2024 by Austin Harris

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 ...

AI enabled Ray-Ban Meta glasses

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 by Austin Harris

Since the launch of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the product has garnered significant popularity, with demand initially outstripping supply. Millions of moments have been shared using the glasses, enhancing the everyday experiences of users worldwide. AI enabled Ray-Ban Meta glasses receive new features and expanded partner integrations New AI features are being ...

Telegram app grows in popularity

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 by Austin Harris

Ever since it launched in August 2013, Telegram has been an exceptionally popular social media platform and messaging app, thanks to its utility and focus on privacy. Telegram's strong growth continued well into 2024. Finbold’s research found that, between April 10 and July 22, the platform added more than 485,000 monthly active users (MoU) every day. Th...

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, ...

SearchGPT prototype waitlist opened by OpenAI

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 by Austin Harris

OpenAI has announced the launch of SearchGPT, a prototype designed to revolutionize the search experience by integrating advanced AI capabilities with real-time web information. The prototype aims to provide users with fast and accurate answers, accompanied by clear and relevant sources. Currently, the prototype is being tested by a select group of users and publishers,...

AWS App Studio lands from Amazon

Friday, August 2, 2024 by Richard Harris

At AWS Summit New York, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), announced the release of AWS App Studio, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered service that uses natural language to create enterprise-grade applications. A user simply describes the application they want, what they want it to do, and the data sources they want to integrate with, and in just minut...

Swimming World app releases on iOS and Android

Thursday, August 1, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Swimming World recently announced the launch of its new mobile app now available on iPhone and Android. This exciting mobile app release follows Swimming World’s recent digital overhaul, which introduced enhanced features for subscribers including personalization and audio narration of feature stories. With the introduction of the app, Swimming World is offer...

Meta AI is multilingual now

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 by Austin Harris

Meta has announced that they are expanding access to Meta AI, the assistant in their apps and devices, and introducing new features to help users with answers, ideas, and inspiration. Meta AI is now available in 22 countries, with the latest additions being Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Cameroon. Users can also interact with Meta AI across Whats...

Dirtiest tech devices in the US survey results

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 by Richard Harris

Technology is all around us every day. From the smartphones in our hands and smartwatches on our wrists to the laptops we work on and the headphones we wear, there are plenty of devices to keep up with. While it is important to ensure you install the latest updates and watch out for sketchy websites, it is just as important to keep your devices clean. The states with...

Bluebird Network seeking bids to complete fiber project

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 by Richard Harris

Bluebird Network, a communications infrastructure provider and operator of more than 11,000 miles of fiber and two data centers, is seeking bids from vendors to complete the Engineering Design and/or Environmental Assessments associated with the project. Vendors are invited to visit the Bluebird RFP submission website to submit a proposal associated with the fi...

Tech and mobile app predictions from Inflectra for 2024

Wednesday, January 3, 2024 by Richard Harris

The year 2024 is upon us and, with it, some of the biggest changes technology has ever brought to multiple industries. Technological innovations and mobile applications promise to create seismic shifts across countless sectors, from the healthcare industry and manufacturing to military and defense. Below are five ways developments in technology and mobile application...

DJI releases new SDK versions

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

DJI has announced the release of the DJI PSDK V3.8、ESDK V1.1 and CloudAPI V1.8. This version of PSDK Supports Matrice 3D/3TD models PSDK download link：https://github.com/dji-sdk/Payload-SDK/tree/master This version of ESDK Supports the DJI Dock 2 ESDK download link：https://github.com/dji-sdk/Edge-SDK/tree/master This version of CloudAPI ...

Runtime code review from AppMap enhances productivity

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 by Richard Harris

AppMap has announced its innovative Runtime Code Review solution that will transform software quality and the developer experience. AppMap's mission is to deliver actionable insights to developers where they work, and AppMap continues to deliver on the promise with its latest release for the GitHub Marketplace. Unexpected runtime defects account fo...

AI that can understand developer code

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 by Richard Harris

Bito has launched AI that can understand a developer’s code. The new super-personalized functionality helps developers write, refactor, and explain their code. It also helps them with debugging and generating test cases. AI, like ChatGPT, only provides generic answers or answers based on limited information that the user provides. Bito’s AI acts like a pe...

What is an NFT and What is blockchain technology search research

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 by Richard Harris

A new study has revealed the most Googled cryptocurrency subjects nationwide and in each state. The research conducted by Marketplace Fairness analyzed search volumes of more than 250 of the most frequently asked crypto questions on Google, to establish the queries that the country is looking to understand. Simple searches for “What is cryptocurrency?”...

What Threads from Meta can teach developers about app marketing

Thursday, July 6, 2023 by Austin Harris

In the landscape of mobile applications, every new launch presents an opportunity to learn valuable lessons about app marketing and user engagement. Mark Zuckerberg, has achieved overnight success with the launch of the Threads app. The highly popular app is intertwined with Instagram and offers users a new way to message and network with friends and family.&n...

Generative AI virtual agent from Serviceaide

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Serviceaide, Inc. has announced its AI-Everywhere Luma Virtual Agent and AI-based solutions. Integrating Generative AI, Luma 3.0 provides a quantum leap in efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, and business process innovation. Luma provides the benefits of Generative AI with nothing extra to buy, it’s built into our technology core to improve all service manag...

Data movement simplified from Equalum and Yellowbrick

Monday, December 19, 2022 by Austin Harris

Equalum announced a strategic partnership with Yellowbrick Data. The partnership leveraging the Equalum platform enables a more simple, efficient, and higher-performance migration of data from legacy environments to the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse hosted in the user’s preferred commercial cloud environment. Announced during the 2022 AWS Summit in San Francisco, ...

How to choose the right mobile ad network

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 by Richard Harris

In order for mobile app creations to become successful, developers need to carefully choose the right mobile ad network. It’s essential to select the most fitting mobile ad network based on relevant data-driven metrics, which will help app developers drive up their revenues and will also provide transparency and trustworthiness. Working directly with an a...