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Go, Big Data Languages Becoming More Popular, Says IEEE

The technology industry group IEEE has released its annual ranking of programming languages. “The 2016 Top Programming Languages” report analyzes twelve different metrics, and unlike many other programming language popularity

Apache Spark 2.0 Debuts

The Apache Software Foundation has released the 2.0 version of Spark 2.0, the open source, real-time big data processing engine. According to the Spark website, “The major updates are API

NodeSource Unveils NSolid Node.js Platform

NodeSource has launched a beta version of NSolid, its enterprise Node.js platform that runs on Linux containers managed by Kubernetes. NSolid includes a command-line interface that allows DevOps teams to

Kudu Now a Top-Level Apache Project

The Apache Software Foundation has promoted Kudu to a top-level project. Originally developed by Cloudera, Kudu is a columnar storage manager for Hadoop that was designed for fast processing of

Linux Kernel 4.7 Released

Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 4.7, the fourth update for the open source operating system this year. Key new features in the release include the LoadPin Linux Security Module

Bitbucket Pipelines Adds Mercurial Support

Atlassian has released the 4.8 version of its Bitbucket tool, and the biggest change is that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports Mercurial as well as Git. That’s an interesting move, because

Smartwatch Sales Plummet 32%

According to the market analysts at IDC, sales of smartwatches fell 32 percent in the second quarter, dropping from 5.1 million last year to 3.5 million this year. The decline

Google Cloud Platform Adds More AI APIs

Google Cloud Platform has unveiled beta releases for two new machine learning APIs. The Natural Language API offers sentiment analysis, entity recognition and syntax analysis in English, Japanese and Spanish.