Category: TECHNOLOGY

  • ‘Hey Siri’ to Become Just ‘Siri’

    ‘Hey Siri’ to Become Just ‘Siri’

    “Apple is using a large extrapolation to how its Siri voice assistant works,” writes the blog Nine to Five Mac: While you presently must say “Hey Siri” to prompt the assistant hands-free, that might not be the case for much longer. According to Bloomberg, Apple engineers are working to remove the “hey” part of the…

  • Apple Has a Major Developer-Relations Problem

    Apple Has a Major Developer-Relations Problem

    Marco Arment, an extensively reputable programmer, app developer, and commentator on Apple, has analyzed Apple’s arguments and its questioning as formally portrayed in its lawsuit in opposition to Epic. He writes: Apple’s leaders continue to deny and disclaim obvious truths.  That our apps offer a large cost to iOS beyond the acquisition commissions amassed through…

  • Why IBM is Pushing ‘Fully Homomorphic Encryption’

    Why IBM is Pushing ‘Fully Homomorphic Encryption’

    VentureBeat reviews a “next-era protection” approach that permits facts to stay encrypted while they are being processed. “Fully homomorphic encryption is poised to emerge from the labs and into the hands of early adopters after a long gestation period.” Microsoft and Intel have both been vocal supporters of homomorphic encryption. Last December, IBM made a…

  • The Case Against SQL

    The Case Against SQL

    The relational version is great… But SQL is the handiest and most widely used implementation of the relational version, and it is inexpressive, incompressible, and non-porous. This isn’t just a recollection of a few consistent programmer overheads, such as SQL queries taking 20% longer to write. The fact that those problems exist in our dominant…

  • Comcast’s New Higher Upload Speeds Require $25-Per-Month xFi Complete Add-On

    Comcast’s New Higher Upload Speeds Require $25-Per-Month xFi Complete Add-On

    The availability of Comcast’s promised net velocity boosts has a catch: customers want to buy a $25-per-month xFi Complete add-on. Ars Technica reports: “As markets open, Xfinity Internet customers who enroll in xFi Complete may see their add speeds multiplied by five to ten times faster,” according to a statement released last week. “Our xFi…

  • Survey Confirms Popularity of JavaScript, Python, C/C++, While C# Overtakes PHP

    Survey Confirms Popularity of JavaScript, Python, C/C++, While C# Overtakes PHP

    Analyst corporation SlashData surveyed over 19,000 respondents from one hundred fifty-five international locations for its “State of the Developer Nation” survey and now estimates that there may be 24.3 million energetic builders worldwide. TechRadar reports: The document pegs JavaScript as the most famous language, which, collectively with editions such as TypeScript and CoffeeScript, is utilized…

  • See Boston Dynamics Robots Bust Freakishly Good Moves On the Dance Floor

    See Boston Dynamics Robots Bust Freakishly Good Moves On the Dance Floor

    Boston Dynamics currently obtains information from Hyundai, which accounts for 80% of the agency’s business.The agency’s own circle of robot relatives is constantly astonishing, and now it seems they may be having a few amusing moments in the near future of 2020. Boston Dynamics’ robotic canine, Spot, and its humanoid-like Atlas bot friend had been…

  • Node.js Rival Deno Gets Seed Capital For Full-time Deno Engineers

    Node.js Rival Deno Gets Seed Capital For Full-time Deno Engineers

    “The Deno creators have formed the Deno Company, an enterprise undertaking spanning the JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes and a competitor to Node.js,” writes InfoWorld. Deno authors Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, who also led the development of Node.js, announced the formation of the organization on March 29 and stated they had $4.09 million in seed…

  • Linus Torvalds Discusses Intel and AMD’s New Proposals for Interrupt/Exception Handling

    Linus Torvalds Discusses Intel and AMD’s New Proposals for Interrupt/Exception Handling

    According to LinuxReviews.org, “in recent months, both AMD and Intel have proposed higher approaches to interrupt and exception handling.” Then they percentaged this evaluation, which Linus Torvalds published at the Real World Technologies forum: “The AMD model is essentially “Fix recognized insects within the exception dealing with definition.” According to the Intel model, “the covered…