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Latent AI, a startup that was spun out of SRI International, makes it easier to run AI workloads at the edge by dynamically managing workloads as necessary. Using its proprietary…

Latent AI makes edge AI workloads more efficient

The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive…

Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Because few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure their…

Diffblue launches a free community edition of its automated Java unit testing tool

Google is introducing new tools for newsrooms looking to understand their online audiences and how those audiences feed into their overall business. These efforts fall under the umbrella of the…

Google updates its analytics tools for newsrooms

During this pandemic, many organizations are offering free or drastically cheaper courses to help people skill-up for when we eventually get out of lock-down. There are numerous outlets if you…

JetBrains Academy for learning code launches for free during COVID-19 pandemic

Checkly, a Berlin-based startup that is developing a monitoring and testing platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $2.25 million seed round led by Accel. A…

Checkly raises $2.25M seed round for its monitoring and testing platform

Seattle-based Pulumi has quickly made a name for itself as a modern platform that lets developers specify their infrastructure through writing code in their preferred programming language — and not…

Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform

Helena Price Hambrecht and Woody Hambrecht always had plans for Haus, their direct-to-consumer low-alcoholic drink, to land white-label partnerships with local restaurants. But when coronavirus spread across the country and…

Tech for good during COVID-19: Children’s book, phone booths, and aperitifs

AppGyver, a startup that has been on the forefront of low-code development since it first launched in 2013, today launched the latest version of its visual development platform. This update,…

AppGyver launches Composer Pro, its new no-code editor

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO…

GitHub nabs JavaScript packaging vendor npm

Arduino, the open-source hardware platform, today announced the launch of a new low-code platform and modular hardware system for IoT development. The idea here is to give small and medium…

Arduino launches a new modular platform for IoT development

AMP, Google’s somewhat controversial project for speeding up the mobile web, has always been open-source, but it also always felt like a Google project first. Today, however, Google announced that…

Google takes AMP to the OpenJS Foundation

Google today announced that Grasshopper, its tool for teaching novices how to code, is now available on the desktop, too, in the form of a web-based app. Back in 2018,…

Google’s Grasshopper coding class for beginners comes to the desktop
Startups

Tiny acquires Meteor

8:00 am PDT • October 2, 2019

Canadian technology holding company Tiny, home to companies like Dribble, Flow and Unicorn Hunt, today announced that it has acquired Meteor, the JavaScript-centric open-source app platform. Meteor launched back in…

Tiny acquires Meteor

DeepCode, a Swiss startup that’s using machine learning to automate code reviews, has closed a $4M seed round, led by European VC firm Earlybird, with participation from 3VC and existing…

DeepCode gets $4M to feed its AI-powered code review tool

Slack is launching a major update to its web and desktop today that doesn’t introduce any new features or a new user interface. Instead, it’s almost a complete rebuild of…

Slack speeds up its web and desktop client

If these past few weeks felt like the sky was falling, you weren’t alone. In the past month there were several major internet outages affecting millions of users across the…

It was a really bad month for the internet

Cruise is sharing a software platform with roboticists that was initially created to give its own engineers a better understanding of the petabytes of data generated every month from its…

Cruise is sharing its data visualization tool with robotics geeks everywhere

Google’s Area 120 team, the company’s in-house incubator for some of its more experimental projects, today launched Game Builder, a free and easy to use tool for PC and macOS…

Google’s Game Builder turns building multiplayer games into a game

Apollo, a San Francisco-based startup that provides a number of developer and operator tools and services around the GraphQL query language, today announced that it has raised a $22 million…

Apollo raises $22M for its GraphQL platform

GitHub gets a package registry

1:30 pm PDT • May 10, 2019

GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHub Package Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their…

GitHub gets a package registry

IntelliCode, Microsoft’s tool for AI-assisted coding, is now generally available. It supports C# and XAML in Visual Studio and Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in Visual Studio Code. By default,…

Microsoft’s IntelliCode for AI-assisted coding comes out of preview

Featured Article

The new new web

Over the last five years, almost everything about web development has changed. Oh, the old tech still works, your WordPress and Ruby On Rails sites still function just fine — but they’re increasingly being supplanted by radical new approaches. The contents of your browser are being sliced, diced, rendered, and processed in wholly new ways…

12:35 pm PDT • April 22, 2019
The new new web

Facebook today announced that it has made its first major API contribution to Google’s Chrome browser. Together with Google, Facebook’s team created an API proposal to contribute code to the…

Facebook makes its first browser API contribution

Game developer Ubisoft today announced that it has partnered with Mozilla to develop Clever-Commit, an AI-based coding assistant that learns from your code base’s bug and regression data to analyze…

Ubisoft and Mozilla team up to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant

Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the…

Google Docs gets an API for task automation

Featured Article

Hola Code tackles the real migration crisis

After spending eight months in an immigration facility in the United States, Abimael Hernandez made the tough decision to return to Mexico.

2:30 pm PST • January 23, 2019
Hola Code tackles the real migration crisis

A security researcher has found, reported and now disclosed a dozen bugs that made it easy to steal sensitive information or take over any customer’s account from some of the…

Some of the biggest web hosting sites were vulnerable to simple account takeover hacks

The curse of open source software is that it is used in pretty much every application and device on the planet, and yet, has pretty much no business model. Sustaining…

Open source monetization startup Tidelift raises $25m series B

The rumors were true: Microsoft Edge is moving to the open-source Chromium platform, the same platform that powers Google’s Chrome browser. And once that is done, Microsoft is bringing Edge…

Microsoft Edge goes Chromium (and macOS)