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HP has announced the HP Omnicept Solution, which brings together its virtual reality (VR) headset and developer-focused SDK. According to the company, this will allow VR developers to create new personalized, engaging, and adaptive VR experiences for the enterprise. According to the company, facial expression and body language account for up to 50% of effective communication. With 25%-30% of the workforce expected to continue working from home next year, new immersive tools will be needed in order to allow for effective remote collaboration.  In addition, HP has found that since the emergence of COVID-19, there has been a 35% increase in the use of technology for training purposes, and VR has been proven to increase learning and training retention rates.  “We’ve designed a powerful, adaptive VR solution to dramatically accelerate the use cases for VR, its potential to transform society, and the way we interact with technology,” said Jim Nottingham, general manager and global head of

Developers have to add another tool to their arsenal in order to keep up with the ever-changing times. Search engine optimization (SEO) is more important than ever now as more consumers are home and are turning to online businesses. Being able to find, and easily and quickly navigate through a website can make or break a business.  “At its core, SEO is working on your site to help site rank better in Google or Bing….This can help get more users to click on the site when they’re searching,” James Leisy, senior technical SEO at DeepCrawl , said in a webinar on SD Times.  While there are a number of different ways users can stumble upon a website, Leisy explained 53% of all trackable web traffic comes from organic search. If the website doesn’t behave properly or is too slow, it can damage a company’s direct revenue and even it’s brand reputation, added Cosmin Elefterescu, head of product management at DeepCrawl, who also spoke during the webinar. RELATED CONTENT: SEO QA – What is

LeanIX is adding a new Business Transformation Management (BTM) module to its enterprise architecture suite. The module is designed to help business and IT teams collaborate and visualize the future-state of IT landscapes. According to the company, it’s like GitHub for architecture management.  “The LeanIX Business Transformation Management module provides enterprise architects and CIOs a much more efficient and scalable method to collaboratively develop plans and scenarios for their IT roadmap,” said André Christ, CEO and co-founder of LeanIX. “It’s like using the Apple Time Machine in which that application displays data retrospectively at any time. The Business Transformation Management module of LeanIX does the same – but in the future.” Project Iodide is no longer under development Mozilla’s open-source project for data science will no longer be worked on or maintained. The company first announced Project Iodide last March as an experimental tool for helping scientists write in

Distributed tracing company Lightstep has announced the release of OpenTelemetry Launchers, a new solution for understanding complex systems.  The release is based on the open-source project OpenTelemetry, which provides APIs, libraries, agents and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics. Launcher now connects that data with Lightstep to provide observability and actionable insights, the company explained.  Distributed tracing provides insight into the life cycle of requests to a system so developers can easily find failures and performance issues.  “We understand that not every organization is Google, and that distributed tracing used to be a cumbersome integration for many engineering teams – that’s why it’s been a top priority for us to simplify things as much as possible,” said Ben Sigelman, CEO and co-founder of Lightstep. “We’ve been working hard alongside Google, Microsoft, Splunk, and other great companies to set the standard for how to collect data from

JetBrains has announced an early access program (EAP) for its Code With Me tool. Code With Me is a service in IntelliJ IDEA that allows developers to share open projects in the IDE with distributed team members. Using Code With Me, team members will be able to quickly access others’ code to help investigate issues, review, and work on your code together. Other IntelliJ IDEA features like code completion, smart navigation, refactoring, the built-in terminal, and the debugging suite, are all available while using Code With Me.  Example use cases for Code With Me include pair programming, mentoring, and swam programming, which is when developers simultaneously code together in a single IDE, JetBrains explained.  Currently, 20 developers including the host can participate in a single session, though active code editing is limited to five participants at a time.  To participate in the EAP, developers can install the Code With Me plugin through the JetBrians Marketplace to the latest ver

Google shared its full perspective on supporting developers’ ability to choose how they distribute their apps through multiple app stores on different platforms, ensuring equal treatment for all apps, and allowing developers to communicate with customers. The company explained it will be making changes in Android 12 next year to make it easier for people to use other app stores on their devices while being careful not to compromise the safety measures Android has in place.  Google also clarified its Payments Policy to be more explicit that all developers selling digital goods in their apps are required to use Google Play’s billing system. Uno Platform 3.0 released with Fluent and Material styles Fluent and Material Design are now available out-of-the-box to use in desktop, mobile, and web applications built with the Uno Platform.  Both design systems have dark mode-themed styles with no additional code required to support dark mode. Also, Uno Gallery is a collection of ready-to

A couple years ago we laughed at the BBC broadcast when a bunch of children ran in and interrupted their dad’s live interview, but today that is becoming the norm. It’s no longer uncommon for people’s children and pets to pop in on meetings and calls. Businesses are beginning to realize they will not be able to return to a 100% normal working environment. “If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we got to be creative about when we work, how we work, and where we work. This has been an opportunity to rethink all those processes organizationally,” said James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm.  Governor presented a keynote at this week’s DevOps World 2020 on the future of work beyond the pandemic.  According to Governor, just as applications and solutions have had to become more distributed to remain competitive and keep up with modern advancements, the future of work is now going to have to go through some of those same changes. “The futu

The Ruby 3.0 preview 1 introduces new features and performance improvements such as the ‘rbs’ gem, which allows parsing and processing type definitions written in RBS.  Additionally, the preview has a Ractor experimental feature, with which developers can make multiple tractors and run them in parallel.  ‘Thread#scheduler’ is introduced for intercepting blocking operations. This allows for light-weight concurrency without changing existing code. Additional details on the preview release are available here . Cron Triggers now available for the Cloudflare Workers serverless compute platform The cron pattern allows developers to schedule jobs to run at fixed intervals – ideal for running any types of periodic jobs like maintenance or calling third party APIs to get up-to-date data, according to Cloudflare.  “At Cloudflare, we believe strongly in edge computing and wanted our new feature to get all of the performance and reliability benefits of running on our edge,” Cloudflare wrote

The independent nonprofit Coalition for App Fairness was formed to promote competition and to protect innovation on digital platforms by providing a roadmap of acceptable practices for operators of the most popular platforms. “As enforcers, regulators, and legislators around the world investigate Apple for its anti-competitive behavior, The Coalition for App Fairness will be the voice of app and game developers in the effort to protect consumer choice and create a level playing field for all,” said Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer at Spotify, and  a member of the coalition.  The coalition’s goal is to make sure that apps can compete fairly as app developers have been increasingly raising concerns about the terms and conditions that govern the Apple App Store as well as last-minute iOS updates that have disadvantaged developers, according to the coalition.  The roadmap titled “ 10 App Store Principles” states that no developer should be required to

A survey by Algorithmia found that a majority of IT leaders are planning to increase their AI/ML initiatives as a result of the pandemic, and realize that those initiatives should have been a higher priority for their organizations all along.  While 54% of IT leaders responded that their AI/ML projects were focused on financial analysis and consumer insight prior to the pandemic, now 59% of leaders said that AI/ML projects will be focused on cost optimization at 59%, and customer experience at 58%.  The most important AI/ML-related job skills coming out of the pandemic are going to be security (69%), data management (64%) and systems integration (62%). The full report is available here . Developers will get new Google Play Console on November 2nd The old Play Console will be discontinued on November 2, 2020 and developers logging in will automatically be directed to the new Play Console when they log into their account.  The releases area of navigation has been reorganized with

OpenAI says it is backlogged with a waitlist of prospective testers seeking to assess if the first private beta of its GPT-3 natural language programming (NLP) tool really can push the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI). Since making the GPT-3 beta available in June as an API to those who go through OpenAI’s vetting process, it has generated considerable buzz on social media. GPT-3 is the latest iteration of OpenAI’s neural-network-developed language model. The first to evaluate the beta, according to OpenAI, include Algolia ,  Quizlet and  Reddit , and researchers at the  Middlebury Institute . Although GPT-3 is based on the same technology as its predecessor GPT-2, released last year, the new version is an exponentially larger data model. With nearly 175B trainable parameters, GPT-3 is 100 times larger than GPT-2. GPT-3 is 10 times larger in parameters than its closest rival, Microsoft’s Turing NLG, which has only 17B.  RELATED CONTENT: Microsoft announces it will exc

Mozilla has announced its Internet of Things platform Mozilla WebThings is now an independent open-source project that will now just be known as WebThings . According to the company, it wants to wind down direct investment and transition control and responsibility to the open-source community.  The company first announced the platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web in April of 2019.  As Mozilla continues the move, it notes that in order to make sure gateways continue to function properly it may need to make some changes to how the project infrastructure operates.  WebThings Gateways operating locally without the need for a cloud service should continue to work as intended and users should still be able to monitor, control and automate the gateways. Those using gateways remotely will have until the end of the year before having to move to a replacement service.  The project will use a module ownership system independent of Mozilla’s organizational structure.

Wondering how much is a Software Engineer salary in India? You’re at the right stop, and we’ll help you get your mind clear on the scope of the Software Engineers demand in India. Besides, you’ll also understand how much average a Software Engineer makes based on different locations and work experience.  Who is a Software Engineer or Developer? Image Source A software engineer plays an essential role in the field of software design and development. The developer is usually the one who helps create the ways that a software design team works. The software developer may collaborate with the creator to integrate the program’s various roles into a single structure. In addition, the engineer interacts with programmers and codecs to map different programming activities and smaller functions, merged in more significant, running programs and new applications for current applications. Who can be a Software Engineer? An individual must typically have a Bachelor’s in information technology

The latest version of the programming language is here. Swift 5.3 focuses on language refinements, the developer experience, and expanding the Swift ecosystem.  New language refinements include adding a string initializer with access to uninitialized storage, synthesized Comparable conformance for enum types, where clauses on contextually generic declarations, refined didSet semantics, and more.  RELATED CONTENT: Swift now available for Windows Runtime performance is also significantly improved in this release. Swift 5.3 offers improved binary code size and runtime memory usage.  Improvements to developer experience include indentation improvements when editing code, code completion enhancements, build time improvements, compiler diagnostics, and debugging improvements.  There are also updates to the Swift Package Manager. Packages can now contain resources like images or other data files, can contain localizable content, can vend prebuilt libraries distributed as XCFrame

Microsoft has revealed it is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3. According to the company, this will further Microsoft’s goals to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for customers, as well as create new solutions that harness the power of advanced natural language generation. GPT-3 is an autoregressive language model that outputs human-like text that clocks in at 175 billion parameters, and is trained on Azure’s AI supercomputer.  “Our mission at Microsoft is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, so we want to make sure that this AI platform is available to everyone – researchers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, businesses – to empower their ambitions to create something new and interesting,” Kevin Scott, executive vice president and chief technology officer for Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. The solution can aid in areas such as writing and composition, describing and summarizing large blocks of long-form data (including c

TIBCO Software has announced the building blocks for making its Responsive Application Mesh vision a reality at its TIBCO Now 2020 conference this week. According to the company, the Responsive Application Mesh provides a blueprint for building an Agile enterprise, from people to processes and practices. “Digital business needs are evolving faster than ever, now demanding agile responses to changing market conditions, deeper connections between people and technology, and quicker time to market. This calls for responsive, interoperable, and rapidly discoverable digital assets,” said Randy Menon, senior vice president and general manager of connect and TIBCO Cloud. The new building blocks are part of a partnership with robotic process automation (RPA) provider WorkFusion. The building block includes: TIBCO Cloud integration to monitor apps in a single view, whether they are on cloud, hybrid, or on-premise architectures. The integration also includes a unified dashboard experience an

Accusoft announced its latest SDK, ImageGear PDF, to enable developers to add a variety of PDF functionalities into an application.  ImageGear PDF gives end-users the ability to merge multiple PDFs, rearrange pages within a PDF, add pages or remove pages in a PDF, and more.  ImageGear PDF is available with an optical character recognition add-on feature, which programmers can use to search for specific characters within a document, highlight different sections, and markup the output for easier viewing and collaboration. Rocket Software announced Rocket OpenAppDev for IBM Z Rocket Open AppDev for Z is a new way for the mainframe community to securely adopt, manage, and obtain support for IBM Z-ported open source.  “With Rocket Open AppDev for Z, we believe we have provided the most innovative, secure path forward for our customers,” said Peter Fandel, Rocket’s product director of open software for Z. “Businesses can now extend the mainframe’s capabilities through the adoption of op

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache IoTDB is now a Top-Level Project.  Apache IoTDB is an IoT database that is designed to meet the data, storage, and analytics requirements of IoT applications.  Key features of the project include high-throughput read and write, efficient directory structure, rich query semantics, flexible deployment, deep integration with open source Big Data projects, and low hardware costs. “The Internet of Things, especially Industrial IoT, has swept the globe with unimaginable volumes of data,” said Xiangdong Huang, vice president of Apache IoTDB. “To date, both Relational and Key Value-based database solutions struggle to meet the demands of IoT data management. Apache IoTDB is the missing link between current IoT data and IoT applications, and is redefining how IoT data is managed, both in the cloud and on the edge. We are proud to graduate as an Apache Top-Level Project, which is an important milestone in our project’s maturity.”

The Object Management Group (OMG) has announced a request for proposal (RFP) for Interface Definition Language v4 (IDL4) for the C++ Language Mapping specification.  According to OMG, this addition to the specification will provide Data Distribution Service (DDS) and CORBA users with an interoperable API for C++, which will allow them to deploy vendor-neutral applications in a number of industries.  Over the past few years, OMG has enhanced IDL by incorporating new syntax and a flexible structure to support new use cases. These enhancements require new language mappings in order to be used with technologies like DDS and CORBA.  “The existing IDL to C++ language mappings are currently being exercised by thousands of DDS- and CORBA-based systems. As new systems adopt OMG IDL, it is important to keep our standard mappings current so new and existing systems can benefit from the new additions to the language,” said RFP author Fernando Garcia Aranda, principal software engineer at Real-T

Snyk is looking to bolster its security platform with the acquisition of DeepCode, a provider of real-time semantic code analysis. Through its AI-powered platform, DeepCode is able to assist developers with app quality and security. According to Snyk, the addition of DeepCode will add to its existing open-source security, container security and infrastructure as code security capabilities.  “Traditional security tools are fatally flawed in today’s fast-paced development environment,” said Peter McKay, CEO of Snyk.  “They are too slow for developers to use in their daily work, and they result in too many false positives, often leading to wasted time or overlooked threats.  DeepCode’s AI engine brings a level of speed and accuracy to Snyk’s technology platform that will give customers a level of security intelligence they’ve never had before.  Additionally, we now can apply those capabilities to the proprietary code written by developers, extending the Snyk platform’s coverage for secu

Swift, the programming language used for macOS, iOS, and other Apple operating systems, is now available on Windows via downloadable toolchain images. According to the team, there has been a significant push to port Swift to Windows over the past year. Now that effort has reached a point where early adopters will be able to start using it to build applications.  The team explained that bringing Swift to Windows is not as simple as bringing the compiler over, but rather making sure that the whole ecosystem is available on the platform, including the compiler, standard library, and core libraries.  “Adding support for Windows to Swift is the beginning of a journey. The current support sets the first milestone where the language is usable. There is yet another even broader part of the ecosystem like lldb and the Swift Package Manager which still need more work to be as complete in their support for this different platform,” the Swift team wrote in a post .  For more information on ho

Microsoft has announced new ways for Windows developers to build applications. The company announced it is working on a unified app platform that will enable developers to leverage new and existing code.  With Project Reunion, the company is working to unify access to Win32 and UWP APIs. “We will provide a common platform for new apps and APIs so that they will work down-level across supported versions of Windows. They will be faster, leaner, and more engaging,” Kevin Gallo, CVP for Microsoft’s Windows developer platform, wrote in a post .  Additionally, the company announced upcoming releases will include: WinUI3 Preview 3; WebView2; and app model features such as app life cycle management, MRTCore and MSIX Framework packages.  Other updates will be applied to Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Terminal and React Native for Windows.  GitLab 13.4 released The latest version of GitLab comes with Vault for CI variables, Kubernetes Agent, and a security center. The instance securi