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...
AWS Elemental MediaLive differences between AWS MediaConvert
Sunday, November 3, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
In today's digital age, video streaming has become a pivotal component of global communication and business strategy. Companies worldwide are increasingly embracing video content to enhance their outreach and engagement. However, not all organizations find it straightforward to integrate video streaming into their operations. The challenges often stem from the need ...
AI enabled Ray-Ban Meta glasses
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
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 ...
AI powered gaming initiative from XPLA and Aethir
Friday, October 18, 2024 by Austin Harris
XPLA has announced a strategic partnership with Aethir. This collaboration will launch a $10 million joint grant fund aimed at accelerating the development of AI-powered games and other innovative projects.
AI powered gaming initiative from XPLA and Aethir
Aethir is advancing decentralized cloud computing by aggregating unused and underutiliz...
Frontend observability solution launched by Honeycomb
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
Honeycomb, the observability platform that enables engineering teams to solve problems they couldn’t before, today announced the general availability of Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. This new offering extends Honeycomb’s powerful debugging capabilities to the frontend, enabling engineering teams to gain deep insights into web application performance ...
Copilot in Excel with Python announced by Microsoft
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
The next wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot is being launched, uniting web, work, and Pages as a new design system for knowledge work.
First, Copilot Pages is introduced as a dynamic, persistent canvas designed for multiplayer AI collaboration, marking the first new digital artifact for the AI age.
Second, enhancements to Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps are being rap...
Building modern business applications with Visual LANSA
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 by Austin Harris
Visual LANSA is a platform for enterprise application development, continuously evolving to address complex requirements. Offering powerful PWAs, responsive UIs, and advanced analytics integrations, it enables users to build, innovate, and adapt with increased speed and efficiency.
Building modern business applications with Visual LANSA webinar
Discover the l...
ASUS AI server lineup presented
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
ASUS recently announced its ambitious All in AI initiative, marking a significant leap into the server market with a complete AI infrastructure solution, designed to meet the evolving demands of AI-driven applications from edge, inference and generative AI the new, unparalleled wave of AI supercomputing.
ASUS has proven its expertise lies in striking the perfect bala...
Madden NFL MCS 25 to be hosted on Challengermode
Thursday, August 22, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
Esports platform Challengermode has been selected as the platform to operate all the online competitions for the Madden NFL 25 Championship Series (MCS). With six tournaments and more than $1.7 million USD on the line, the MCS delivers elite football esports action on the virtual gridiron from August through February.
Beginning on August 14th, eligible Madden NFL 25 ...
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 ...
AWS introduces Mithra advanced threat intelligence neural network
Thursday, August 15, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
In a recent blog post from AWS, Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses detailed the robust threat intelligence capabilities that safeguard AWS customers. Through tools like Mithra and MadPot, AWS collects and analyzes vast data, identifying and neutralizing threats with unparalleled accuracy and speed. AWS's proactive approach to sharing high-fidelity th...
Miniaturized AI solution from ASUS
Thursday, August 8, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming industries, with the potential to create entirely new content, from crafting hyper-realistic product prototypes to generating innovative marketing campaigns. However, a significant hurdle exists: unleashing the true power of GenAI often requires access to bulky workstations or cloud resources.
ASUS NUC 14 Pro+: Miniaturiz...
Geospatial mapping system TrueView GO lands from GeoCue
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
GeoCue, a provider of geospatial solutions, recently announced the addition of the TrueView GO to its innovative product lineup, which includes TrueView drone and mobile mapping systems as well as LP360 3D point cloud software. This latest release marks GeoCue's entry into the handheld mapping arena, setting a new standard for portable, high-precision geos...
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 Freeman Lightner
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...
OpenAI acquires Rockset to enhance data capabilities
Monday, July 15, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
OpenAI has acquired Rockset, a company that specializes in real-time analytics databases, for almost $200 million. The acquisition has drawn attention and various reactions from influencers on the social media platform "X", revealing the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
OpenAI acquires Rockset, the real-ti...
Is NET MAUI the future of cross platform development
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 by Richard Harris
With .NET MAUI poised to replace Xamarin in the tech sphere this May, dive into the architectural differences between the two, the revolutionary impact .NET MAUI is expected to have and the importance of exploring alternatives frameworks like Flutter and React Native. Uncover key insights into the suitability of cross platform development frameworks for different develo...
Veracode acquires Longbow Security
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Veracode announced the acquisition of Longbow Security, a security risk management platform for cloud-native environments. The acquisition marks the next exciting phase of Veracode, underscoring the company’s commitment to help organizations effectively manage and reduce application risk across the growing attack surface.
The integration of Longbow in...
Illuminate development tool from PubNub announced at GDC 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024 by Richard Harris
PubNub announced the launch of their newest product, PubNub Illuminate, at the 2024 Game Developers Conference.
Illuminate gives product owners the ability to easily map the KPIs that are important to their game’s success, trigger decisions based on live game state, and see instant outcomes without requiring engineering resources. They can m...
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...
LeetCode Rewind analytics features to leverage StarRocks
Monday, March 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
StarRocks announced that LeetCode, an online coding platform will leverage the StarRocks platform to power LeetCode Rewind. The revolutionary new feature allows users to replay past attempts, analyze code execution step-by-step, and gain deeper insights into their strengths and weaknesses by tracking progress over time.
Delivering this interactive experienc...
Conversational AI platform Loora to break down language barriers
Monday, March 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
Loora announced that it raised $12M in a Series A financing round from lead investor QP Ventures, with participation from new investor Hearst Ventures and existing investors Emerge and Two Lanterns Venture Partners, among others. The new funding, which comes just eight months after Loora’s launch from stealth with a $9.25M seed funding round, will enable the compa...
Programmable video APIs aiding developers from Vonage
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 by Richard Harris
Savinay Berry, EVP Product and Engineering at Vonage, explains how Vonage's programmable video APIs are aiding developers to drive positive CX brand experiences, how to overcome the challenges developers face when tasked with implementing video, how you can leverage APIs to eliminate heavy lifting and manage the data for you, how they implemented flexible ...
Symbolic AI programming platform Allegro CL releases v11 update
Monday, January 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
Franz Inc. announced the release of Allegro CL v11, which includes key performance enhancements now available within the most effective system for developing and deploying applications to solve complex problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
"The rapid adoption of Generative AI (LLMs) is fueling heightened demand for guided, fact-based applications whi...
HiPEAC 2024 conference to focus on edge AI
Friday, January 12, 2024 by Richard Harris
Bringing computing systems together from all over the world, the nineteenth edition of the HiPEAC conference will take place in Munich on 17-19 January 2024. A highlight of the European computing systems' community calendar, the event offers both unparalleled networking opportunities and the chance to identify priorities for future directions in the field. This...
Digital twins will combine capabilities in 2024 says ScaleOut Software
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 by Richard Harris
Below, Dr. William L. Bain shares his 2024 predictions for how digital twins will combine real-time monitoring and simulations to help operational managers of live systems manage complexity and make better decisions in the moment.
New capabilities for digital twins
Over the last two decades, digital twins have revolutionized the development of complex new pro...
Generative AI predictions for 2024 from WinWire
Monday, December 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
As much as it's in the news, AI is by no means a new development. It has been more than three decades since Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess champion. It has been over a decade since Watson outperformed several Jeopardy champions.
That was all AI. It's not a sudden arrival. It has evolved and gone through several iterations. AI-powered recomme...
ASPM 2024 report from Cycode
Friday, December 15, 2023 by Richard Harris
Cycode announced the release of its inaugural State of ASPM 2024 report. The research found that AppSec chaos reigns, with 78% of CISOs responding that today’s AppSec attack surfaces are unmanageable and 90% of responders confirmed relationships between their security and development teams need to improve. Surprisingly, 77% of CISOs believe software supply ch...
App developer trends for 2024 according to Kochava
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
Ethan Lewis is the CTO of Kochava, the real-time data solutions company for omnichannel attribution and measurement, and Vaunt, an open-source community engagement tool that helps organizations grow their developer communities. He discusses the rapid growth of the app industry and what’s next for application developers.
What’s next for software developers...
AIGC marketing will increase in 2024 says Mobvista
Thursday, December 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Embrace technological change: the great popularity of AIGC in recent years has brought great influence and change to the marketing industry. The application of AIGC can improve the efficiency, degree of personalization, and creativity enhancement of enterprise marketing. Utilizing these advanced technologies, companies can better meet customer needs and improve market c...
AI hallucinations could be problematic in 2024 says Couchbase
Thursday, December 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Rahul Pradhan, VP, Product & Strategy, Couchbase discusses predictions including how Real-time data will become the standard for businesses to power generative experiences with AI. How data layers should support both transactional and real-time analytics, why multimodal LLMs and databases will enable a new frontier of AI apps across industries, what paradigm shift t...
AI app development assistant lands from NodeSource
Thursday, November 30, 2023 by Richard Harris
NodeSource, the Node.js observability, application management, monitoring, and security platform, announced the launch of the N|Solid Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into the Console of N|Solid Pro. Leveraging the N|Solid Pro platform to capture the most detailed telemetry for applications and paired with the company’s Node.js experts and OpenAI, the...
API security risks report exposes Netflix and Wordpress
Monday, November 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
Wallarm, the end-to-end API and app security company, announced the release of its Q3-2023 Wallarm API ThreatStats report. The quarterly report details the surge in threats centered around APIs and uncovers critical vulnerabilities, like injections and API data leaks, that have recently impacted leading firms, including Netflix, VMware, and SAP.
The new report i...
EV charging station app from LeapCharger out now
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
LeapCharger, the electric vehicle (EV) charging company announced that its app is now available for download on the Google PlayStore.
The launch comes on the heels of a series of beta tests conducted in numerous key and target markets to ensure proper mobile connectivity and availability, including Dubai, the United States, Canada, and India. According to LeapCh...
