Swift 5 for Xcode 10.2 beta is here with stable ABI
Apple announced Swift 5 for their Xcode 10.2 compiler. Swift in Xcode 10.2 beta brings a couple of new features like smaller app sizes...
Yarn releases a roadmap for Yarn v2 and beyond; moves from Flow to Typescript
Yesterday, Maël Nison, maintainer at Yarn, opened a GitHub thread on the Yarn repository describing the roadmap for the next major Yarn release. The...
Microsoft acquires Citus Data with plans to create a ‘Best Postgres Experience’
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it has acquired Citus Data- a startup that specializes in big data and analytics.Citus is an extension to the open...
Amazon launches TLS Termination support for Network Load Balancer
Starting from yesterday, AWS Network Load Balancers (NLB) supports TLS/SSL. This new feature simplifies the process of building secure web applications by allowing users...
Microsoft’s Bing ‘back to normal’ in China
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced of its search engine, Bing, being blocked in China. However, they were unsure if it was due to China’s great...
Per the new GDC 2019 report, nearly 50% of game developers think game industry...
The 2019 Game Developers Conference published the results of their seventh annual state of the industry survey two days ago. The report added two...
China blocks Microsoft’s Bing search engine
Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a statement, that their popular Bing search engine was banned in China. This would be Microsoft’s second setback since November...
USC researchers present identification and mitigation techniques to combat fake news
A group of researchers from the University of Southern California published a paper titled “Combating Fake News: A Survey on Identification and Mitigation Techniques”...
Packt helped raise almost $1 million for charity with Humble Bundle in 2018
And now, for some personal news: our friends at Humble Bundle, with whom we have been working for the past year or so, recently...
Hadoop 3.2.0 released with support for node attributes in YARN, Hadoop submarine and more
The team at Apache Hadoop released Apache Hadoop 3.2.0, an open source software platform for distributed storage and for processing of large data sets....
