Announced in 2017, AWS Greengrass aims to ease the task of setting up and managing IoT systems. Version 2.0 adds new developer capabilities, including revamped command-line interface and support for adding and removing pre-built components. Additionall…
The new Entity Extraction API, now available in beta, enables analyzing text inside of an app to detect different textual entities such as dates, URLs, payment cards, and so on. Selfie Segmentation aims to make it easier to add effects to pictures. By …
Holistic tracking is a new feature in MediaPipe that enables the simultaneous detection of body and hand pose and face landmarks on mobile devices. The three capabilities were previously already available separately but they are now combined in a singl…
Four years after open sourcing Fuchsia, its new capability-based operating system aimed to IoT and mobile, Google has announced the project will now accept contributions from the public. By Sergio De Simone
Announced at re:Invent 2020, AWS new EC2 Mac Instances enable running macOS on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute to build, test, package, and sign Xcode applications for Apple platforms, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari. By Sergio De …
Google has announced that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which provides the foundations for all Android-labelled OSes available in the market and more derivative OSes, will transition to use Bazel as its new build tool. By Sergio De Simone
The Swift team has published its roadmap to improve concurrency support in Swift. In a first phase, Swift will gain the async syntax and actors, while in a second phase focus will be on eliminating data races and deadlocks. By Sergio De Simone
Just AI Conversational Framework (JAICF) provides a Kotlin-based DSL to enable the creation of conversational user interfaces. JAICF works with popular voice and text conversation platforms as well as different NLU engines. InfoQ has spoken with Just A…
The latest version of Android official IDE, Android Studio 4.1, is now stable. Besides introducing a new database inspector, integrated emulator, and better TensorFlow Lite support, it improves integration with Dagger and fixes over 2,000 bugs. By Serg…
Swift Algorithms is a new package including a number of sequence and collection algorithms that are going to fill a gap in Swift standard library, writes Apple engineer Nat Cook. By Sergio De Simone