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Introducing Viv, By The Makers Of Siri
DevelopmentNews May 11, 2016
For those of us who grew up having to dial a recorded message and sit through every single announcement just to find out what time a certain movie was playing (and woe be unto you if you made noise while we were trying to scribble down the show times,... Read more
The MIT Media Lab, a tech innovation center that has has a hand in numerous tech related products over the years, including Guitar Hero has revealed that going forward, the way it deals with its approach to software releases is to fundamentally change. From now on, the MIT... Read more
Toonz Releases Open-Source Animation Software
DevelopmentNews March 22, 2016
In the past seven years, the tech world has undergone a major shift in terms of giving “the little guy” the tools to build a high-quality product and a platform to monetize his efforts. The self-publishing craze that was sparked by the digital publishing revolution is probably the most... Read more
Female Coders Better Than Men, Latest Research Shows
DevelopmentNews February 14, 2016
A study published this week has found that code written by women via GitHub is in fact more likely to be approved and accepted by their coding peers than code written by men. That is, at least when their reviewing peers don’t know they’re female… The results came as... Read more
TaxSlayer Software Developers Reveal Data Breach
DevelopmentNews February 8, 2016
As if citizens didn’t have enough to worry about during the tax filing season, yet another data breach has claimed the identities of nearly 9,000 people. TaxSlayer announced a January 13th data breach, discovered during a routine security check, that released the personal identifiable information of many of its... Read more
Hibernate ORM Comes To FileHippo
DevelopmentNewsSoftware Reviews February 2, 2016
Most of the time you have to pay for really good specialist software, and sometimes like when you use Hibernate, it’s open source and it’s free. When it comes to framework selection with Java developers, you can be pretty sure the overwhelming response will, 9 times out of 10,... Read more
A Higher Calling For Open-Source Software
DevelopmentNews January 18, 2016
Open-source software–or at least the concept that drives it, a world where coding expertise and technology are furthered for the good of the public instead of corporate profit–is gaining traction in a big way. Some top names in tech have even announced their support for open-source, and whole crowdfunding... Read more
WP Engine, the WordPress managed hosting solution setup by WordPress itself to help WordPress users, has had its security breached in a cyber-attack that has exposed customer credentials. WP Engine became aware of the breach on the 9th December, and quickly moved to contact all of its customers directly,... Read more
Wolfram Alpha: Free For All
DevelopmentNewsSoftware Reviews December 16, 2015
We’ve never been closer to the future predicted in Star Trek than we are right now. In the dream-state setting of the television series and films, there is no struggle on Earth. There is no disease, no poverty, no clashing of ideologies that erupts in violence. Humans have moved... Read more
Google Offers TensorFlow As Open Source
DevelopmentNews November 11, 2015
It can be hard for companies with major-name brands behind them and shareholders to keep happy to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to open sourcing their content. But Google, a company with more revenue than some small companies, has the leverage to do just... Read more
UK Government Looks To Open Source Software
DevelopmentNews October 22, 2015
Governments around the world are feeling the pinch of shrinking budgetary funds and burgeoning debt, but the UK is taking one important step in the right direction: open source software. With reports that the government will be abandoning Microsoft Office for all its government offices and departments and heading... Read more
VW Software Scandal May Lead To More Open-Source Code
DevelopmentNews September 29, 2015
The great emissions-beating software scandal is still in full swing, with Volkswagen stating that eleven million of its vehicles have installed software that helps it beat environmental testing procedures in order to release as much as 40% more harmful emissions than the law allows. Now, Audi has admitted that... Read more
Best Of The Best: Bossie Awards For Open-Source Software
DevelopmentNews September 18, 2015
Movies have the Oscars, stage has the Tonys, sports gets the ESPYs… there’s even an award show for television commercials called the Clios, and that’s some funny stuff right there. But software fans, never fear! Grab your couture and walk the red carpet in honor of the Bossies! ... Read more
Unity Web Player Gets An Update
DevelopmentGamingSoftware Reviews August 27, 2015
Once upon a time, any kind of artist who wanted to put his work in front of larger audiences typically had to go the route of a major name label to stand behind it, whether it was works of art, books, music, or even video games. But the recent... Read more
A host of software developers offer tools to make managing your files, folders, and drives as streamlined as possible, but one of the features that some platforms lack is the ability to compare those destinations for duplicates, changes, updates, and revisions. Devart has handled that issue with the development... Read more
In a recent move to appeal to bloggers and WordPress users everywhere, Evernote and CoSchedule have integrated. Evernote, the world’s most popular note taking app, has always been a place to “collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and present your ideas to the world.” Writing blog posts in Evernote... Read more
Earlier this year Google closed down its own project hosting site, Google Code, in an assumed move to let GitHub and BitBucket to become the dominate code sharing and publishing services, otherwise known as social networking for programmers. However, the move away from project hosting only a lasted for... Read more
If you owned a computer any time on the 1980s, you probably used Notepad and you were probably blown away by its amazing features. Then Word came along, and you promptly forgot that Windows machines even come with Notepad. Unless you’re writing code, that is. Notepad++, based on C++,... Read more