Category: Software & Applications

June 1, 2023

Microsoft Teams is a communications platform for workgroups that competes with the likes of Slack, Zoom, and Cisco Webex, however it offers much better integration with the Microsoft Office ecosystem. Teams lets you organize chats with teammates, participate in video […]

June 1, 2023

The human brain has been called the most complicated object in the universe. Trying to replicate that still-unmatched capability for computing, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have made a new interface-type memristive device, which their results suggest can be […]

June 1, 2023

Bootstrap 5.3.0, the latest version of the CSS, JavaScript, and HTML web framework, has arrived with an emphasis on dark mode and custom color modes. The final stable release of this update to the mobile-first application framework was announced May […]

May 26, 2023

These days I hear a lot about the goal to run federated applications across cloud providers. We want to build these multicloud applications for many reasons, including: To optimize the underlying cloud resources for the application components. For instance, a […]

May 24, 2023

In computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD), 3D objects are often represented by the contours of their outer surfaces. Computers store these shapes as “thin shells,” which model the contours of the skin of an animated character but not the […]

May 17, 2023

Microsoft-owned GitHub, which provides a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration, faced three disruptions in its services last week, following 13 such incidents in the past three months. “Last week, GitHub experienced several availability incidents, both long-running and […]

May 16, 2023

AI technology has taken off over the past year. While many discussions center around ChatGPT, some of the most critical developments in AI can be seen with mobile devices. Android, in particular, is one of the most popular smartphones that […]

May 12, 2023

Although businesses can access a wealth of data, numbers alone cannot be used to draw conclusions. The best way for organizations to maximize the value of their data and make more informed decisions is with the help of business intelligence […]

April 28, 2023

Visual Basic (VB) is an object-oriented language and development environment created by Microsoft in 1991. It has evolved from the earlier version of ‘BASIC’ language, which stands for ‘Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.’ Under the VB programming framework, software developers […]

April 27, 2023

Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core allow you to easily create RESTful APIs with minimal code and configuration. No matter what type of API we build, it is always important to minimize the amount of data transferred over the network, which […]

April 25, 2023

Big data has led to some huge changes in the way we live. John Deighton recently posted about this in an article on The Economic Times. John Deighton is a leading expert on big data technology. His research focuses on […]

April 25, 2023

Code and data integrity and encryption support in Java would get boosts from two different proposals floating in the open source Java community. One proposal would tighten strong encapsulation of Java APIs, and the second would deliver an API for […]

April 21, 2023

Low-code and no-code platforms have already played a vital role in helping business users build their own software applications with little or no knowledge of coding. Use of these platforms, though, will reach a tipping point as generative AI is […]

April 21, 2023

Microsoft announced the release of Babylon.js 6.0, the new version of its real-time 3D engine for displaying 3D graphics in an HTML5-compatible web browser. Babylon.js 6.0 greatly improves the engine’s capabilities and performance, giving web developers a chance to exploit […]

April 19, 2023

The days of navigating those high-profile international Microsoft Teams calls in a pidgin language may soon be over thanks to a new update. The video conferencing tool has announced an expansion to its live translated captions service that will allow […]

April 17, 2023

Two months ago, Amazon didn’t make a single mention of AI on its earnings call (Google and Microsoft mentioned AI dozens of times each). This past week, by contrast, the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), could talk about […]

April 17, 2023

Java Development Kit (JDK) 21, due in September as the next long-term support release of Oracle’s standard Java implementation, is taking shape, with sequenced collections, virtual threads, a preview of string templates, and a third preview of a foreign function […]

April 12, 2023

Mozilla has just released the first stable version of Firefox 112.0, the open-source browser available for the most popular desktop platforms and Android. The release is particularly interesting for customers rocking a GPU made by Intel, a scenario where the […]

April 10, 2023

Sometime in 2019, MIT Ph.D. student Ajay Brahmakshatriya formulated a simple, though still quite challenging, goal. He wanted to make it possible for people who had expertise in a particular domain—such as climate modeling, bioinformatics, or architecture—to write their own […]

April 4, 2023

The market for cloud computing is growing faster than we originally anticipated when we started running this blog. A report by Fortune Business Insights states that the market for cloud solutions reached $480 billion last year. Many people are still […]