Alexa Conversations, recently launched in beta, aim to enable the creation of custom skills with fewer code thanks to a new AI-based approach. Alongside Alexa Conversations, Amazon has also announced Alexa for Apps, which allows Alexa users to interact…
Earlier this year, security researcher Bhavuk Jain disclosed a 0-day vulnerability in Sign In with Apple that could easily allow an attacker to get full control of a victim’s account by only knowing their email address. Apple patched the vulnerability …
The latest release of iOS, iOS 13.5, includes beta support for the Exposure Notification API Apple defined jointly with Google to enable contact tracing apps. Apple also published a sample app to showcase best practices in contact-tracing apps. By Serg…
The current COVID-19 pandemic has fueled several efforts to implement contact tracing apps, based on a number of different cryptographic approaches. InfoQ has spoken with HashiCorp principal product manager for cryptography and security Andy Manoske to…
In a recent Channel 9 show, F# designer and architect Don Syme and Fabulous maintainer Timothé Larivière introduced Fabulous, a community-driven F# framework aimed to build cross-platform mobile and desktop apps based on Xamarin.Forms. By Sergio De Sim…
The latest Dart release, Dart 2.8, focuses on preparing the ground for the introduction of null safety and brings and improved package manager. Flutter 1.17 significantly improves runtime performance while reducing binary size and memory usage. Additio…
Only a few weeks after its initial announcement, the partnership between Google and Apple to provide their mobile OSes with solid foundations for contact tracing applications has reached a key milestone, a preliminary draft of the Exposure Notification…
Across the last two years, Duolingo seamlessly migrated its Java Android app to 100% Kotlin. Among the main benefits this brought, developers improved their productivity and happiness while the Duolingo app became almost null pointer exception (NPE) fr…
Google and Apple announced a joint effort to create a Bluetooth-based contact tracing solution for iOS and Android. This initiative aims to provide a tool to fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus by alerting participants who have been in contact with …
Google-sponsored TinyGo is a new LLVM-based Go compiler to make it possible to run Go programs on microcontrollers, including the Arduino Uno and the BBC micro.bit, as well as modern browser using Web Assembly. By Sergio De Simone