Labor shortages solved through automation
Monday, March 31, 2025 by Freeman Lightner
From restaurants and hotels to assisted living facilities and amusement parks, businesses across the services sector are having trouble finding, and retaining, entry-level workers, says RobotLAB CEO Elad Inbar.
"For better or for worse, our current services sector labor shortage seems here to stay. Fortunately, there is a new way to alleviate this shortage in th...
GDC reveals recipients of lifetime achievement and pioneer awards
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 by Austin Harris
Organizers of the 25th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of two of the awards show’s most prestigious accolades, the honorees of the Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer Awards.
This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be shared with the iconic video game writer and director Sam Lake, who’s known for his role...
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...
AI software development shifts as AWS and poolside team up
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 by Austin Harris
Amazon Web Services and poolside have announced a multi-year agreement to make poolside's generative AI Assistant and foundation models (FMs) available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a fully-managed service that offers developers access to high-performing models from leading AI companies through a single API. As a result, enterprise customers will soon be...
Java development testing tool Diffblue Cover Developer Edition
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 by Richard Harris
Diffblue released a new edition of its flagship product, Diffblue Cover. Diffblue Cover: Developer Edition meets the unique needs of individual Java developers and small teams, offering an accessible solution for AI-driven, continuous unit testing to drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
Diffblue Cover is widely adopted by medium-to-large enterprises &ndash...
Real time security software development from Symbiotic Security
Friday, November 22, 2024 by Richard Harris
Symbiotic Security launched a real-time security for software development that combines detection and remediation with just-in-time training – incorporating security testing and training directly into the development process without breaking developers’ workflows.
Backed with $3 million of seed funding from investors including Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo C...
Organic text distortion effect using infinite scrolling
Thursday, November 14, 2024 by Austin Harris
In the ever-evolving world of web design, creating visually appealing and interactive elements is crucial for engaging users. One innovative technique gaining traction involves crafting organic text distortion effects using infinite scrolling. This method leverages JavaScript and CSS to produce unique, fluid animations that captivate audiences and enhance user experienc...
Future of software development and AI explored in new survey
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
As the reach of artificial intelligence (AI) expands, IT leaders are exploring new use cases for technology used throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), according to a new survey launched today titled "AI in software development: Exploring opportunities and uncertainties" by OutSystems, a global leader transforming how companies innovate thr...
iOS 18 developers need to know this
Friday, September 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
First things first, let's talk about what's new in iOS 18. Apple has packed this release with a plethora of features that will make your apps more powerful, efficient, and user-friendly. Here are some of the highlights:
iOS 18 developers need to know: The essentials
1. Enhanced Privacy Features: Apple continues its crusade for user privacy with new to...
Paris 2024 Olympic apps ask for dangerous permissions
Monday, August 12, 2024 by Austin Harris
As Paris city attracted a large number of sports tourists, the apps for the Olympic Games 2024 are tracking them, extracting private data, and peddling it to advertisers and big tech.
According to a report from the Cybernews research team, which selected 12 Android apps relevant to the Olympic Games attendees in Paris and tested their permissions, the apps designed t...
Secure software development education report from the Linux Foundation
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Richard Harris
Linux Foundation Research and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) are pleased to release a new report titled "Secure Software Development Education 2024 Survey: Understanding Current Needs." Based on a survey of nearly 400 software development professionals, the analysis explores the current state of secure software development. It underscores&n...
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...
Meta AI is multilingual now
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
AI low code roadmap released by WaveMaker
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Richard Harris
WaveMaker, the breakthrough development system for accelerating enterprise-grade software development, has updated its platform in response to customer demand for more sophisticated API and code management tools. The new version of WaveMaker now works on the latest Angular technology platform.
WaveMaker releases a new modern development system for enterprise-grade so...
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...
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...
AI code personalization tool from Anima
Monday, February 5, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anima announced AI Code Personalization which leverages generative AI in their code-generation engine. This feature empowers developers to automatically customize the code they produce so it resembles their coding style, significantly saving editing time. Anima’s code personalization is now available in the Anima Figma Plugin and in Figma’s Dev Mode.
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Cloud native market predictions from Lightbend
Thursday, December 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
The time has again come to speculate on what we can expect regarding technology trends for 2024. While this exercise is repeated across the technology industry, I enjoy and find this a valuable yearly exercise, as it encourages us to look back on our predictions from the previous year, potentially course correct as needed, examine evolving trends and others we think wil...
Top 50 AI tools according to Writerbudddy report
Monday, November 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
AI has been an omnipresent theme over the past year, pushing boundaries and redefining several industries in a short space of time. An astounding number of over 24 billion visits were generated from September 2022 to August 2023 by just the top 50 AI tools, with an average monthly growth of 236.3 million visits. Out of this massive number, ChatGPT alone accounted for 14...
Generate AI videos with Creative RealityTM Studio mobile app
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
D-ID has announced the launch of its popular Creative RealityTM Studio as a Mobile App. Available on Google Play and iOS, the app increases access for existing and new users to create videos of digital people from a single image with accompanying scripts in 120 languages.
The desktop version of Creative RealityTM Studio already boasts more than 150 million video...
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