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Evinced’s accessibility testing solutions triple in adoption

Ryan Daws — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:53:26 +0000

Evinced, a provider of web and mobile accessibility solutions, saw its customer base triple in 2023 on the back of new prevention-focused tools like Unit Tester and Design Assistant. These innovations allow developers and designers to automatically catch accessibility issues long before release, marking a shift for the industry toward prevention versus post-hoc fixes. The... Read more »

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Stack Overflow unveils OverflowAI to support developers with AI/ML solutions

Ryan Daws — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:04:11 +0000

At the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin, Stack Overflow took the stage to reveal six innovative capabilities and features as part of its OverflowAI offerings. These AI/ML solutions aim o revolutionise the way developers find solutions within their workflows, catering to both the public platform and Stack Overflow’s popular SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams.... Read more »

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GitHub Copilot will enable developers to code using their voice

Ryan Daws — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:52:29 +0000

A new GitHub Copilot feature will enable developers to code using their voice. Copilot was introduced last year and uses AI to help speed up mundane coding tasks by suggesting how to complete lines. Behind the Copilot feature is an AI model developed by OpenAI called Codex. OpenAI claims that Codex has a broad knowledge... Read more »

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Perforce expands its DevOps portfolio with Puppet acquisition

Ryan Daws — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:16:11 +0000

Perforce is expanding its portfolio of DevOps tools with the acquisition of Puppet, an infrastructure-as-code pioneer. “This acquisition expands our product offering by adding new capabilities for enterprise DevOps teams to manage and secure their critical infrastructure,” said Mark Ties, CEO of Perforce. “With Puppet, we will be providing our customers with access to a... Read more »

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Niantic acquires WebAR experts 8th Wall to expand metaverse platform

Ryan Daws — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:53:31 +0000

Niantic is continuing its evolution from an AR game developer to a complete platform for building metaverse experiences. Once upon a time, Niantic was an exciting but relatively unknown company behind the pioneering (and highly underrated) AR game Ingress. Niantic then released Pokemon Go and was catapulted into the spotlight. The hype around Pokemon Go... Read more »

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GitHub incentivises open-source investments with sponsor-only repos

Ryan Daws — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:01:47 +0000

GitHub is launching private repositories that only sponsors have access to, helping to incentivise open-source investments. Open-source mostly relies on developers voluntarily giving up their time to build and improve projects. Priority is naturally given to work that helps to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table—meaning that open-source projects can... Read more »

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Software supply chain attacks increased over 300% in 2021

Ryan Daws — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:54:28 +0000

We all knew there was an increase in software supply chain attacks in 2021, but a new study has quantified just how bad things got. Argon Security – recently acquired by Aqua Security – published the latest edition of its annual Software Supply Chain Security Review this week. The headline stat from Argon’s report that... Read more »

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GitHub launches preview of improved code search

Ryan Daws — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:40:33 +0000

GitHub is making significant improvements to its code searching experience and has launched a technology preview for an early peek. The current search index covers more than five million of the most popular public repositories. In addition, developers can also search any private repositories they have access to. GitHub recommends trying five search functions to... Read more »

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JetBrains announces Fleet next-gen IDE, support for remote coding

Ryan Daws — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:15:43 +0000

Software development tools company JetBrains has made two major new announcements. The first announcement is an early preview of its next-generation IDE called Fleet. Fleet is a lightweight IDE that is designed to be ready-to-use without much additional configuration. JetBrains promises Fleet will be “ready in a second” for simple tasks but its full environment... Read more »

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Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s visual effects company for $1.6B

Ryan Daws — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:23:24 +0000

Unity has announced that it’s entered a definitive agreement to acquire Peter Jackson’s visual effects company Weta Digital for $1.6 billion. Weta Digital has worked on hit films including Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Wonder Woman, and Black Widow. Unity says its acquisition will “democratise” Weta’s powerful tools to make them available for more creators.... Read more »

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