Category: Software & Applications

September 29, 2022

Businesses of all sizes will be able to get paid through Microsoft Teams, adding a whole new dimension to the service. The video conferencing platform is integrating payments as it looks to become even more helpful for businesses everywhere by […]

September 29, 2022

The newest iteration of Microsoft Outlook is now available to try for selected users, the company has confirmed. The new version of the email client is open for Office Insiders to try now, giving an insight into what the company […]

September 28, 2022

At its Search On announcement event on Wednesday, Google showed off a slew of funky new Maps features, one of which is leaning way in to Gen Z trends. Soon, users will be able to “vibe check” — yes, you […]

September 28, 2022

Microsoft’s .NET 7 software development platform, due as a production release in November, improves support for running .NET on WebAssembly in JavaScript-based apps. Developers can use the expanded WebAssembly support in .NET 7 to reuse .NET libraries from JavaScript or […]

September 28, 2022

Tracking down that elusive web page or niche website could soon be a lot easier thanks to a new update coming to Google Chrome. The browser has announced a new shortcut that will allow desktop users to search through their […]

September 22, 2022

ASP.NET Core 6 introduced a simplified hosting model that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6 don’t use controllers, and they lack support for a number of useful ASP.NET features. One of […]

September 21, 2022

Nvidia has become the latest company to start prepaing for the metaverse with a newly-announced Omniverse Cloud. Announced at the recent Nvidia GTC 2022 event(opens in new tab), the company’s first software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering is designed to support developers design, […]

September 20, 2022

Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building a new feature, called Canvas, that will let users create and edit full docs from within the Slack interface. It’s one […]

September 19, 2022

The engineer’s mindset is to understand a problem, build a solution, and then figure out how to deploy a robust and secure implementation into production environments. Unfortunately, it’s often more complicated and expensive to embed security best practices into a […]

September 19, 2022

Best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language, Brendan Eich is also the founder and CEO of Brave Software, creator of the Brave browser, and co-creator of the Basic Attention Token. As CTO of Mozilla, he helped pilot […]

September 16, 2022

.NET 7, the next generation of Microsoft’s cross-platform, open source developer platform, has reached the release candidate (RC) stage. .NET 7 emphasizes performance along with capabilities such as .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), cloud-native development, and support for the ARM64 […]

September 16, 2022

CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for general computing on its own GPUs (graphics processing units). CUDA enables developers to speed up compute-intensive applications by harnessing the power of GPUs for the parallelizable part […]

September 15, 2022

It may soon be harder than ever to escape Zoom following reports that the company is working on a range of new software products. The Information(opens in new tab) has reported that the video conferencing giant is working on an […]

September 14, 2022

Swift 5.7, the latest update of Apple’s Swift programming language, is now available, with usability improvements, a smaller and faster standard library, faster build and launch times, and a new generics implementation. Unveiled September 12, Swift 5.7 offers language and […]

September 14, 2022

September’s Patch Tuesday is upon us, giving Microsoft the opportunity to fix, among other things, two zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild. As per the company’s security advisory, the two flaws are tracked as CVE-2022-37969, and CVE-2022-23960. The […]

September 12, 2022

For software developers, adaptability is key to a successful career. The IT job market is constantly changing, whether it’s due to emerging technologies, economic and environmental factors, or a mix of all three. Software developers who quickly adapt to the […]

September 7, 2022

Zoom has announced it will launch a Customer Managed Keys service in an effort to help businesses remain compliant with strict regulations. The company cites the healthcare industry’s HIPAA and finance services institutions’ Gramm-Leach Bliley Act and NY DFS rules […]

September 6, 2022

Like any other discipline, software development has its productivity challenges. Would you believe that the average software developer spends roughly 75% of their time just searching through and understanding code to make necessary changes? With developers spending so much time […]

August 31, 2022

A set of malicious Google Chrome extensions designed to monitor browsing activity have been installed on more than 1.4 million devices, researchers have reported. As described in a blog post(opens in new tab) from security company McAfee, the purpose of […]

August 31, 2022

Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual Studio Code programmer’s editor, the Visual Studio IDE is still at the heart of Microsoft’s development toolchain strategy. More than 25 years of evolution have brought us a customizable development environment that goes […]