Category: Software & Applications

January 3, 2024

Google’s Chrome maintained a comfortable lead in the global desktop browser market to close out 2023, but the fight for second place took an interesting turn. According to the latest data from StatCounter, Google finished the year with 65.29 percent […]

January 2, 2024

Microsoft has enhanced its code coverage tools, adding new features to Microsoft.CodeCoverage and introducing dotnet-coverage. The enhancements include fresh report formats that integrate smoothly with tools such as ReportGenerator. Microsoft posted a bulletin about its enhanced code coverage tools on […]

January 2, 2024

Microsoft announced that it will retire its Visual Studio 2013 IDE in April. The company is urging Visual Studio 2013 users to upgrade to Visual Studio 2022. In a blog post on January 2, 2024, Microsoft said that extended support […]

December 29, 2023

Florida resident William Byatt and California residents Chasom Brown and Maria Nguyen filed the lawsuit, writes Ars Technica. It accuses Google of violating wiretap laws and claims that sites using Google Analytics or Ad Manager collected information from browsers in […]

December 28, 2023

Joining the list of many other ongoing lawsuits relating to generative AI, The New York Times is now waging a battle in court against Microsoft and OpenAI due to their use of NYT content in Copilot and ChatGPT [h/t The […]

December 26, 2023

Software development is currently undergoing a profound transformation, marked by a quiet yet remarkable surge in advanced automation. This impending shift promises to streamline the creation and deployment of high-quality applications on an unprecedented scale. Rather than a single technology […]

December 22, 2023

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Don’t input anything into ChatGPT that you don’t want unauthorized parties to read. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT last year, there have been quite a few occasions where flaws in the AI […]

December 21, 2023

Windows 10 running out of road for support is going to be something of an environmental disaster in terms of old PCs going into landfills, an analyst firm has warned. Canalys wrote an article on the state of the PC […]

December 13, 2023

If you’re ever worried about your friends constantly checking your location in the same way they check what you’re listening to on Spotify (yes, I’m okay, please stop asking), Google has got you covered. The company announced in a blog […]

December 12, 2023

Windows 365 Boot was introduced earlier this year as a new option to transform local Windows PCs into dumb terminals for accessing a remote Windows 365 Cloud PC virtualized image. Instead of utilizing the classic (and free) local user account […]

December 12, 2023

In today’s fast-paced software industry, engineering organizations need objective measurements and analytical solutions to gauge their performance. Historically, engineering leaders have evaluated outcomes subjectively, lacking the data-driven insights required to drive success. This has hindered engineering leaders from making informed […]

December 8, 2023

Intel released a new non-WHQL driver containing a surprising number of updates. While the 31.0.101.5074 driver for Arc and Iris Xe provides performance improvements for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (which sees an 8% average FPS uplit at 1080p Ultra), there […]

December 4, 2023

The job market for software developers has always been competitive, but we’re about to experience a talent crunch unlike anything we’ve ever seen in this industry. Generative AI is everywhere, and anyone who works in software is trying to figure […]

November 30, 2023

Gmail experienced some issues with delayed emails for a few hours on Thursday. At 12:31PM ET, Google wrote on Gmail’s Workspace Status Dashboard that “customers impacted by this issue may see delay in sending the emails,” but at 5:03PM ET, […]

November 27, 2023

It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be […]

November 22, 2023

Writing reusable code is a vital skill for every software developer, and every engineer must know how to maximize code reuse. Nowadays, developers often use the excuse that there is no need to bother with writing high-quality code because microservices […]

November 21, 2023

TypeScript 5.3, an upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant that adds support for import attributes for ECMAScript modules, is now available as a production release. TypeScript 5.3 also offers features ranging from stable support for resolution mode in import […]

November 16, 2023

Microsoft has unveiled a new application, called the “Windows App,” which is a remote utility that provides users with a centralized location to control all of their remote desktop connections, including Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Dev Boxes, and even Remote […]

November 16, 2023

In the background of image recognition software that can ID our friends on social media and wildflowers in our yard are neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence inspired by how own our brains process data. While neural networks sprint […]

November 16, 2023

Google is testing new generative AI features for YouTube that’ll let people create music tracks using just a text prompt or a simple hummed tune. The first, Dream Track, already seeded to a few creators on the platform, is designed […]