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Google’s Jetpack Compose toolkit for the Android mobile platform has moved to a beta stage of release.The declarative UI toolkit is designed to speed up the process of building native apps across Android platforms. Declarative Kotlin APIs are featured for…

Although not due until September, Java 17 has already begun to take shape, with two proposed new features now eyed for the next upgrade to standard Java. A MacOS rendering pipeline proposal was added on February 25. Earlier this month, a proposal of enhanced…

NumPy 1.20.0, described as the largest-ever release of the scientific computing package for Python, has arrived, introducing new capabilities such as type annotations and expanded use of SIMD (single instruction, multiple data).Release notes for NumPy 1.20.0…

Just ask any marketing person—it’s their job to keep demand for a product or service high. So they depend on advertising and other methods to create brand recognition and a sense of demand for what they sell.These days marketing firms are even more clever,…

The latest Insider Pro and Computerworld Salary Survey reveals the current salaries for dozens of tech titles, the IT skills most in demand (and those not), the tech hiring expectations for the coming year, and what matters most to IT pros in their current…

Even if it were to end today, the COVID-19 crisis will leave an indelible imprint on the infrastructure of our lives. In addition to the painted lines, warning signs, and other low-tech indicators that attempt to keep people safely separated, we’re seeing…

Every React app is composed of interacting components. How these components communicate is an essential aspect of the UI architecture. As applications grow larger and more complex, component interaction becomes even more important.React provides several…

Python developers cite simplicity and ease of use as principal reasons for using the language, but they still want capabilities such as static typing and performance improvements, based on survey results released this week.Python’s simple syntax, syntactic…

Do more certifications lead to new jobs, promotions or a pay rise? We asked 1,172 IT professionals their thoughts and whether or not they are currently pursuing certifications and in which areas of technology?

The coronavirus crisis has shaken up business as usual, with some IT strategies and tools rising to the occasion and others in line for a rethink or tough recovery post-pandemic.(Insider Story)

Microsoft has published the production release of TypeScript 4.2, an update to the popular open source language that adds types to JavaScript. Arrived February 23, TypeScript 4.2 features enhancements pertaining to tuple types and type aliases.TypeScript 4.2…

Regular expressions, or “regex,” is a system for finding complex patterns in text. Most every major language has support for regular expressions, whether as an add-on library or as a native library function.Python comes with regex support out of the box,…

Amazon Web Services claims to have the broadest and most complete set of machine learning capabilities. I honestly don’t know how the company can claim those superlatives with a straight face: Yes, the AWS machine learning offerings are broad and fairly…

With the first developer preview of the planned Android 12 platform, the developers of Google’s mobile OS are emphasizing privacy, user experience, and app compatibility.The Android 12 developer preview, which is not intended for consumer use, was introduced…

Happy at work? Maybe you are not alone. Our 2021 salary survey of IT professionals reveals current attitudes to pay, responsibilities and what matters most in their current jobs.

Automated decision-making tools are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our world. However, many of the machine learning (ML) models behind them — from facial recognition systems to online advertisements — show clear evidence of racial and gender biases.…

Steve Ballmer said it best. Developers are critically important, and developers were the unsung heroes of 2020. I suppose that shocks no one, and in a recent survey of executives by the NoSQL database firm Couchbase, 92% of the executives agreed.I secretly…

According to Absolute Markets Insights, cloud computing in higher education is expected to grow 25.4% by 2027. This is expected to increase due to implementations of cloud-based solutions to reduce costs and improve productivity and efficiency. Oh yeah, to…

With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has moved into maintenance mode, while the new .NET completes its…

Our survey of 1,172 IT professionals finds that demand for some IT skills is strong but the pandemic has influenced the rate of hiring and roles that are being prioritized.

Scala 3, the planned next version of the object-oriented, functional language with JVM and JavaScript runtimes, has moved to a release candidate stage, with type parameter enhancements and syntax improvements.The Scala 3 RC, introduced February 17, brings…

As the old IT truism goes, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Now, in the cloud era, many are starting to apply the same logic to another well-known vendor: Microsoft.For enterprises with extensive Microsoft footprints—spanning Office, Windows, Dynamics,…

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core has become a popular way to build high-performance, modern web applications that can run on Windows, Linux, or MacOS. An important way to ensure high performance and reliability in applications that experience high volumes of…

There’s a lot of wishful thinking in “The Value of Open Source in the Cloud Era,” a recent IBM-commissioned O’Reilly Media survey.For example, there’s the finding that 70% of the more than 3,400 respondents “prefer cloud providers based on open…

Our survey of 1,172 IT pros finds that despite the pandemic, most people have seen compensation rise or remain steady but some old inequalities remain

The Linux Foundation is adding seven open source projects aimed at pooling open source software expertise to promote racial justice to its Call for Code initiative.Call for Code was established in 2018 to bring together technical resources and expertise from…

‘Do More with R’ offers quick video tips on useful things you can do in the R programming language. Now you can search these R tutorial videos by topics, tasks, and packages in the table below. (Click on the task to go straight to the video content—or in…

Employees working remotely for much of 2020 caused a huge uptick in cloud spending at the same time enterprises struggled to contain cloud expenses. In many cases, increases were directly due to the pandemic and changes in IT systems to accommodate the new…

Microsoft has published the first preview of .NET 6, the next generation of the company’s software development platform that will finish the parts of the .NET unification begun in .NET 5.Due as a production release in November, .NET 6 is set to deliver…

Google has rolled out the alpha version of Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), an API for building lightweight compiler plug-ins in the Kotlin language.Similar to the Kapt compiler plug-in for annotation processing, but said to be faster, KSP offers direct access…