Last year, Amazon began selling physical buttons that customers could press to order items like laundry detergent, dog food, coffee and toilet paper from the company. According to analysts, Amazon
Databricks has released a technical preview of Apache Spark 2.0, which is available as part of the Databricks Community Edition cloud computing big data platform. Key features in Spark 2.0
Google has released two new artificial intelligence (AI) tools under open source licenses. The first, SyntaxNet, is a neural network framework for building applications that understand natural language. The second,
At the Internet of Things World Conference and Exposition, SAP announced that it was expanding its SAP HANA Cloud Platform for IoT and that it had forged several new IoT
GitHub has unveiled the 1.0 release of its Electron application development framework. Formerly known as Atom Shell, Electron utilizes Web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript to build native desktop
At the IoT/AppsWorld Conference, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled its new Universal Internet of Things (IoT) Platform. The new solution aims to simplify management of multiple IoT tools. “Typically, the type
In the May update to the Tiobe Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages, Ruby climbed up to 8th place. A year ago, it was 15th on the list,
When Microsoft unveiled PowerApps last week, it also took the wraps off a new connection-based development tool called Flow. Similar to Yahoo Pipes (which is now discontinued) and IFTTT, Flow
Job hunting site Dice.com and The Linux Foundation have published a new report titled “Moving Toward Professionalization: Rising Need for Open Source Skills in 2016.” It found that 59 percent