Microsoft’s Build 2017 has been a lot about how developers can leverage on its .NET framework to create a lot of stuff. One of those things can be created is mobile apps (iOS and Android) from the comfort of your Windows PC. That said, Microsoft announced an update to the XAML libraries for building user… Continue reading Microsoft Just Made It Easier To Build iOS and Android Apps From Your Windows PC
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Facebook Wants To Be Your Go-To Password Recovery Place Across All Non-Facebook Services Too
First it was Microsoft with its own way of killing the password this week and now its Facebook which means the password as we know it could soon be a thing of the past. At its just concluded F8 developer conference, Facebook launched a Delegated Account Recovery in beta which is a way Facebook can… Continue reading Facebook Wants To Be Your Go-To Password Recovery Place Across All Non-Facebook Services Too
Google’s AutoDraw Turns Your Amateur Drawing Into A Professional One
Google wants to help people like me who don’t know how to draw feel as if we can actually do by launching AutoDraw. AutoDraw uses machine learning techniques to match whatever it is you have inputted with professional drawings to give you something more desirable. This means that by attempting to draw something for a… Continue reading Google’s AutoDraw Turns Your Amateur Drawing Into A Professional One
Google Just Open Sourced Guetzli, A New JPEG Encoder Which Cuts Image Size By 35% Without Quality Loss
Google’s aim to speed up web page load time received a boost with the recent announcement of Guetzli (a Swiss-German word for cookie) which they say is designed to cut JPEG image files by 35 percent. In a blog post by Google software engineers Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, they said Guetzli will reduce file… Continue reading Google Just Open Sourced Guetzli, A New JPEG Encoder Which Cuts Image Size By 35% Without Quality Loss
This App Auto-Corrects Your Previous Line Of Command In Console Environment
If you’re a console user, then you may have come across mistyping a command and in turn get a response like “no such command”. But Russian developer Vladimir Lakovlev created an application which he has made available on GitHub to help auto correct your previous command in the console environment. Starting with the application’s name,… Continue reading This App Auto-Corrects Your Previous Line Of Command In Console Environment
Google’s DeepMind “Open-Sources” Its AI Platform
Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) arm called DeepMind is making its simulation environment where it carries out test public. In other words, DeepMind is “open-sourcing” its DeepMind Lab and making it available to other researchers and indeed the public. In a post on their website, they said they were putting their entire source code on open… Continue reading Google’s DeepMind “Open-Sources” Its AI Platform
Adobe Welcomes You To The “Voice Photoshop” Era #VoCo
Can you guess if this picture was photoshopped? Well I don’t mean that literally but it’s a question you may have heard or come across at some point. That’s because Photoshop has allowed designers to come up with cool and yes crazy designs sometimes. To achieve the crazy, sometimes we have to tweak existing images… Continue reading Adobe Welcomes You To The “Voice Photoshop” Era #VoCo
Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation At The Highest Level As It Moves To Attract More Developers
After announcing in March that it was bringing its SQL database to the Linux platform, we knew there would be more where that came from. Today Microsoft announced that it is joining The Linux Foundation and that’s not all. It also announced that it would be joining at the highest membership level which is the… Continue reading Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation At The Highest Level As It Moves To Attract More Developers
This Guy Developed A Chrome Extension To Check Fake Stories On Facebook
It’s now eight days after the US presidential elections and it looks like the idea that fake news stories on Facebook may have swayed the election in Donald Trump’s favour is gathering steam. After senior executives at the social media giant raised concerns, it looks as if junior staff are now officially trying their best… Continue reading This Guy Developed A Chrome Extension To Check Fake Stories On Facebook
Apple Has A Hidden And Much Smaller iOS Keyboard That It Didn’t Want You To Know About
A well-known software developer by the name Steve Troughton-Smith shared what some suspected but were not able to work around on Twitter recently. He says Apple has a hidden one-handed keyboard in the iPhone and iPad. [xyz-ihs snippet=”iPhone-hidden-keyboard”] At the moment in iOS, you would have to use the big virtual keyboard which appears at… Continue reading Apple Has A Hidden And Much Smaller iOS Keyboard That It Didn’t Want You To Know About