Generative AI platform Cohere lands 500M in funding
Friday, July 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Cohere, a generative AI startup co-founded by former Google researchers, has successfully raised $500 million in a new funding round. The investment was backed by notable players including Cisco, AMD, and Fujitsu. According to Bloomberg, this round also saw participation from Canadian pension investment manager PSP Investments and Canada’s export credit agency EDC...
Apple Immersive Video series premiere on Apple Vision Pro
Friday, July 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Apple is releasing all-new series and films captured in Apple Immersive Video that will debut exclusively on Apple Vision Pro. Apple Immersive Video is a remarkable storytelling format that leverages 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio to transport viewers to the center of the action.
Apple Immersive Video series premiere on Appl...
WWDC24 highlights from Apple
Friday, July 26, 2024 by Austin Harris
Apple recently showcased a series of groundbreaking updates and innovations at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 (WWDC24), captivating the developer community with a week of insightful sessions. The event highlighted the latest advancements across various domains, including machine learning, Swift, SwiftUI, spatial computing, and more.
WWDC24 highlights from&n...
Apple Vision Pro now available in other parts of the world
Thursday, July 25, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
The Apple Vision Pro is now available in Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world. Additionally, AI is being integrated into the Apple Vision Pro, featuring notification prioritization, new writing tools, an OpenAI chatbot, and Siri.
So what does this mean? Will Apple achieve success with the Vision Pro after an uncertain consumer start, even though the initial lau...
Mobile POS payment transactions in China to surpass US and Europe
Thursday, July 25, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Although mobile POS payments have become widely adopted among tech-savvy consumers worldwide, no country is even close to China, the world's largest mobile payments market. In 2024, almost 570 million Chinese will use mobile wallets for POS payments, twice the combined number of Americans and Europeans. This will generate an impressive $1.72 tril...
Apple Swift Student Challenge winners for 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 by Austin Harris
Apple’s annual Swift Student Challenge recognizes the best in student coding, and this year, it has added a new category to its ranks. Out of 350 winning submissions, 50 students have been named Distinguished Winners for building app playgrounds that stand out for their innovation, creativity, social impact, or inclusivity. These 50 students have been invited to a...
Microsoft outage caused by software update from CrowdStrike
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
On July 18, a software update released by CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity firm, began to affect IT systems worldwide. Although Microsoft was not directly responsible for the incident, the impact on their ecosystem prompted the company to take immediate action to support their customers.
Microsoft outage caused by software update from CrowdStrike affect...
Crypto wallet downloads are on the brink of setting a new record
Thursday, July 18, 2024 by Richard Harris
After a two-year decline following the peak of the crypto market in 2021, crypto wallet downloads are on the brink of setting a new record. According to data presented by AltIndex.com, crypto wallets saw 91.4 million downloads in the five months of the year, which is only 8% less than in 2023.
Crypto wallet downloads skyrocketed and hit 91.4M in five months of 2024, ...
SaaS integration challenges explained by Prismatic
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 by Richard Harris
In this Q&A, we delve into the world of SaaS integrations with the CEO and co-founder of Prismatic Michael Zuercher. He shares valuable insights on the challenges companies face when implementing integrations, including security concerns, scaling difficulties, and the impact on core product development. Michael offers guidance on mitigating security risks and evalua...
AI relationship search terms the US queries the most
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
It’s been described as “Her” in real life. The Spike Jonze-directed science fiction film follows the lead character as he embarks on a relationship with an operating system. Now, 11 years after the film’s release, that very reality is here. AI relationship chatbots have swept into the world’s eye at great speed, offering as little as some o...
LEO satellite connectivity simplified by Skynopy
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
Skynopy recently announced that its fundraising of $3.1M closed in only 3 weeks, just months after its creation. This funding round was supported by a pool of investors, including the pan-European fund Heartcore Capital, Kima Ventures, Better Angle, and BPI France, alongside well-known entrepreneurs like Thibaud Elziere (e-founders, Hexa) and Yohann...
Responsibilities of lead test automation architects
Thursday, July 4, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid
Software Quality Assurance Leaders and QA Automation Architects are in high demand by the work fields of technology, hospitality, financial, advertising, and gaming. Recruiters always look for these professions as they are highly in demand all over the world. They are the workers who cross-check the product in every stage of the software development life cycle based on ...
Network as Code platform launched by Nokia
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Nokia announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to give developers around the world the network software tools they need to create innovative new 5G enterprise and consumer applications faster for their customers.
Now, Nokia’s Network as Code platform with a developer portal will run on Google Cloud, enriching the developer experience v...
Software testing on metaverse technologies
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid
Metaverse is a new form of a reality where people can meet up using their avatar to be seen in a virtual office where employees can demonstrate the project, discuss the company status, plans and timeline as well as people can be seen working from all over the world. The other possible form of the metaverse is the use of AI and Augmented reality with a special device whe...
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...
Network exposure platform from Nokia
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Nokia announced Network Exposure Platform, a new software offering that will expand and simplify the number of APIs available to operators, their partners, and customer channels to enable the creation of network powered applications for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers.
Nokia Network Exposure Platform (NEP) is the first implementation of the&...
Overcoming burnout in software QA with surfing
Friday, June 14, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid
Life has been changing and challenging as the future arises. Fear and anxiety is bringing risks to business owners, employees and to our families because of uncertainties of the future. With the technologies evolving rapidly with AI and the Cloud the Metaverse world becomes relevant in the near future. Life is supposed to be lived in happiness with a healthy lifestyle, ...
Developers are using AI
Friday, June 7, 2024 by Richard Harris
SlashData’s Developer Nation survey is a research program on mobile, desktop, industrial IoT, consumer electronics, embedded, third-party app ecosystems, cloud, web, game, AR/VR, and machine learning developers, as well as data scientists, tracking developers’ experiences across platforms, technologies, programming languages, app and API categories, revenue ...
Mobile golf game with real prizes announced
Friday, June 7, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
WorldWinner announced the launch of its first sports game, Big Swing Golf. The new game transforms phones and computers into a 24/7 golf club where virtual golf links meet real-money winning, allowing players to swing for the win anytime, anywhere. The game will join an elite, curated portfolio of original, card, word, arcade, and classic games and can be...
Telerik and Kendo UI 2024 Q2 release adds GenAI
Friday, June 7, 2024 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the latest release of Telerik and Kendo UI, the .NET and JavaScript UI libraries, and tools for application development. The release delivers artificial intelligence (AI) prompts to application interfaces, design-to-code productivity, accessibility features and a series of new UI components, including the first-to-market Blazor Spreadsheet c...
Mobile stock trading market projected to surpass 100B by 2029
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Stock trading has emerged as a paramount focus for investors, a trend accelerated by the seismic shifts brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Central to this evolution is the remarkable surge in mobile trading, offering unparalleled ease and convenience to traders worldwide. According to forecasts from Stocklytics.com, this trajectory shows no signs of slowing do...
Top startups of the decade revealed
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 by Richard Harris
New data has revealed the top 10 most successful startups of the decade. The Startup Success Index, by software development experts at Vention, analyzed a list of 1,220 startups, from CB Insights, against its valuation, the public perception of the company through search volume, its growth score, and the number of employees. Results for each category were converted...
Social engineering takeover attacks are on the rise
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
OpenSSF and the OpenJS Foundation (home to JavaScript projects used by billions of websites worldwide) are alerting open-source project maintainers of social engineering takeover attacks, following new attack attempts they’ve witnessed similar to the XZ Utils incident.
The OpenJS Cross Project Council received suspicious emails, imploring OpenJS to update one o...
Epic Games defeats Google in court
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Richard Harris
In a twist that sounds straight out of a high-stakes courtroom drama, Epic Games has thrown down the gauntlet with a bombshell injunction proposal aimed at shaking up Google Play's entire rulebook. This comes hot on the heels of their David-versus-Goliath victory over Google in December, where a U.S. jury cast the tech behemoth as the big bad monopoly wolf of Androi...
TRON HTX DAO Hong Kong Meetup 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
On April 9, the TRON x HTX DAO: Hong Kong Meetup 2024 event, hosted by TRON and co-organized by HTX DAO, took place in Hong Kong with great success. This bustling event brought together the brightest minds of the HTX DAO ecosystem: project leaders, committee members, and influential KOLs. Their energy was palpable as they delivered speeches delving into the future of HT...
AlgoKit blockchain toolset adds native Python support
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
The Algorand Foundation announces the launch of AlgoKit 2.0, the latest upgrade to the AlgoKit command line interface (CLI) - a simple, one-stop toolset for developers building on the Algorand protocol. AlgoKit 2.0’s native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python. The toolkit has also been internally re-a...
Gaming app insights report from AppLovin and Adjust
Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Adjust released The Gaming App Insights Report, a first-of-its-kind resource for studios, developers, and mobile marketers, pairing global mobile gaming app data with expert insights from AppLovin and its in-house creative agency SparkLabs. Notable growth in gaming app installs and in-app revenue in 2023 continued into 2024 reveals a resurgence across many subverticals ...
DevOps World Backup Day
Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
On Friday, March 31, we celebrate World Backup Day. The date is not accidental - it has been assumed that on April Fools’ Day, no one wants to discover that potential data loss wasn't a simple hoax.
World Backup Day - best practices and pledge for DevOps
On this day, cybersecurity specialists from around the world will come together to urge everyone to m...
Social media misinformation could impact the 2024 election
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
As Congress moves to potentially ban TikTok in the U.S., Media.com, a new profile-based network, unveils a study showing that 70 percent of social media users are moderately to extremely concerned that misinformation will impact the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. Respondents were also inclined to hold social media companies accountable for misinformation and hate...
QMware NVIDIA and Oracle to advance hybrid quantum computing
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 by Richard Harris
QMware announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA and Oracle through which it will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU clusters, as well as the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum open-source hybrid quantum computing platform, to test and develop a new state-of-the-art hybrid quantum computing service for enterprise customers. An initial version ...
Neopets saw rapid growth for 2023
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 by Richard Harris
The almost 25-year-old legendary virtual pet game Neopets is delighted to present a strong 2023 business performance, following its transition into an independent entity known as World of Neopia, Inc. in July 2023. Since that transition, Neopets has experienced a remarkable turnaround, boasting an unprecedented 100% increase in monthly active users (MAU) and a new ...
ONCD asks software manufacturers to adopt memory safe languages
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 by Richard Harris
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has released a new report asking software manufacturers to adopt memory-safe programming languages to help reduce vulnerabilities from entering the supply chain.
"For thirty-five years, memory safety vulnerabilities have plagued the digital ecosystem, but it doesn’t have to be this way. This repo...
Gecko edge computing from Akamai takes to cloud computing
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Akamai Technologies, the cloud company has unveiled plans to embed cloud computing capabilities into its massive edge network. Akamai’s Generalized Edge Compute (Gecko) advances Akamai’s strategy to be the cloud computing platform for companies that want to deliver better experiences by running workloads closer to users, devices, and sources of data.
Akam...
SXSW keynote speakers revealed
Monday, February 19, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals has announced the addition of new Keynotes and a fifth round of Featured Speakers for the 38th edition of its annual Conference, which celebrates the convergence of technology, film, television, and music. SXSW takes place March 8-16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. The Keynotes announced include five-time Olympic gold meda...
Average NFL fans visualized by Midjourney for each team
Friday, February 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
With playoff season coming to a close, AI has delved into the world of the NFL, imagining the "average" fans of each playoff team. Online gaming site FlashPicks used the AI art program MidJourney to envision the “typical” fan for each of the eight teams from round two of the playoffs for the Super Bowl, providing a unique take on NFL culture within...
