Software Development & Technology News (01/10/2020 - 08/02/2021)
Richard Harris
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Richard Harris
DevOps, Online & Mobile at TD Bank Group #devops #agile #cloud #java #js #csharp
- Three countries are due to reach Mars in the next two weeks - The Verge
- IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months - Engadget
- Scientists propose new way to detect emotions using wireless signals
- Human invention makes need for human mathematicians obsolete
- What's the Most Popular Component in the .NET-C# Tech Stack- -- Visual Studio Magazine
- How to hire senior developers- Give them more autonomy - Hiring Engineers
- Developers played a central role in helping businesses survive the pandemic - ITProPortal
- Who needs a supercomputer- Your desktop PC and a GPU might be enough to solve some of the largest problems - ZDNet
- What I Learned About C# From Job Interviews - Michael's Coding Spot
- Low-Code Platforms and the Rise of the Community Developer- Lots of Solutions, or Lots of Problems-
- Visual Studio Code- How Microsoft's 'any OS, any programming language, any software' plan is paying off - ZDNet
- Reach your 2021 goals with custom apps — no coding required
- Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
- Get ready for the death of the global internet. It won’t be pretty - WIRED UK
- Musk and Bezos Scrap Over Who Gets to Be Space King
- Microsoft claims breakthrough in quantum computing - MSPoweruser
- These developers might be the most productive in the world. But they're still making one big error - TechRepublic
- Attacks on .NET Apps Grow in Number, Severity, Says Security Firm -- Visual Studio Magazine
- Microsoft is testing out this new way of delivering Windows 10 features - ZDNet
- Europe considers making it law that your boss can’t bug you outside of office hours ? The Register
- Gartner- The future of AI is not as rosy as some might think - TechRepublic
- Windows 10X- Train wreck in slow motion – or the future of Windows- - Computerworld
- Keep current, stay employed- The most in-demand tech skills for 2021 - TechRepublic
- The work-from-home employee’s bill of rights - Computerworld
- When To Say No To Freelance Projects — Smashing Magazine
- Microsoft says now is the time for all firms to embrace open source - TechRadar
- Microsoft invests in $30 billion driverless car company Cruise - Ars Technica
- Hiring developers is going to be your next big problem - TechRepublic
- Better remote collaboration will require radically reimagining user interfaces - Dropbox Blog
- Windows 10X- A closer look at Microsoft's new operating system
- Want to run Windows apps on Linux- Wine just got this huge update - ZDNet
- Programming languages- What JavaScript developers really want - ZDNet
- Here's a One-Stop Shop for .NET 5 Improvements -- Visual Studio Magazine
- Google is testing the ability to shop directly from YouTube videos - Engadget
- Developer's Cheat Sheet for C# 9.0 - Okta Developer
- Workaholics may be at high risk of depression and sleep troubles - SlashGear
- How to Become a Better Developer by Asking Questions - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve
- Google reveals sophisticated Windows and Android hacking operation - ZDNet
- What to expect from Microsoft and Windows 10 in 2021
- Stanford researchers propose AI that figures out how to use real-world objects - VentureBeat
- How to use Meet Now to make free video calls on Windows 10 - Windows Central
- Microsoft's AI model has outperformed humans in natural language understanding - Neowin
- What Do Software Engineers Get Paid- - IEEE Spectrum
- Report- Software Quality Issues Costing U.S. Companies $2.08 Trillion - DevOps.com
- Microsoft Once Tried to Buy Nintendo But Thankfully Failed - Thurrott.com
- Linus Torvalds tears into Intel, favors AMD - ZDNet
- Astronomers agree- Universe is nearly 14 billion years old -- ScienceDaily
- How to Play Software as a Team Sport – Aaronontheweb
- Why Software Development is Hard - Jeremy Mikkola
- Five Microsoft technologies to watch in 2021 - ZDNet
- Adobe Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
- Watch these Boston Dynamics robots show off incredible dance skills - SlashGear
- Microsoft is developing an exciting new way to navigate Windows 10 – BGR
- The Diminishing Role of Operating Systems - IT Pro
- Software development, analytics, and Facebook proficiency listed as most in-demand skills - TechRepublic
- Why writing is so important for tech workers
- WSJ- Google, Facebook agreed to team up against potential antitrust action
- 2021 outlook- Here are the technologies, questions that will matter - ZDNet
- Tech jobs- Three trends that will have a big impact on your chances of getting hired - ZDNet
- Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away- Certification renewals to be free ... but annual ? The Register
- Google quietly buys company that turns your old Windows 7 PC into Chrome OS machine - ZDNet
- Elon Musk’s Favorite Job Interview Question Is Key for Job Seekers
- Texas antitrust lawsuit against Google alleges agreement with Facebook
- A Powerful AI Generated Some Predictions for the Future and They’re Quite Outrageous
- Forgetfulness May Be a Sign of Brain Efficiency - Neuroscience News
- To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
- EU warns that it may break up Big Tech companies - Ars Technica
- Australian study shows working in pyjamas does not hurt productivity - ZDNet
- The FTC is investigating data collection at YouTube, Facebook, and seven other companies - The Verge
- Windows 10X is arriving next year- What we know so far
- Low-Code To Become Commonplace in 2021 - DevOps.com
- Open-source developers say securing their code is a soul-withering waste of time - TechRepublic
- Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google - TechCrunch
- Researchers Invent Material That Could Create Invisibility Cloak
- FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State - The New York Times
- The best programming language to learn now - InfoWorld
- Ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims if they restore from backups without paying - ZDNet
- JavaScript at 25- The programming language that makes the world go round - ZDNet
- How AI is Transforming Software Development - ReadWrite
- On the future of Windows 10’s feature releases - Computerworld
- Google illegally spied on and retaliated against workers, feds say - Ars Technica
- Credit card stealing malware hides in social media sharing icons
- Microsoft Research develop technology to read your Pulse, Respiration and heart rhythm using your smartphone camera - MSPower
- -NET 5 Breaking Changes- Historic Technologies
- Microsoft is selling ugly Windows sweaters, and part of the proceeds benefit Girls Who Code - The Verge
- What is Microsoft doing with Linux- Everything you need to know about its plans for open source - TechRepublic
- A Broken Piece of Internet Backbone Might Finally Get Fixed - WIRED
- Developer Decries WinForms-to-Blazor Performance Degradation -- Visual Studio Magazine
- Why No One Can Manage Projects, Especially Technology Projects
- Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack for $27.7 billion - The Verge
- We Need Organic Software
- Common developer frustrations and how to overcome them - JAXenter
- Freelancers Like Work More Than Employees, Says FlexJobs Study
- Users underestimate level of attacks on home networks
- Microsoft patents tech to score meetings using body language, facial expressions, other data - GeekWire
- Facebook’s Libra could launch in January - TechCrunch
- How one developer is sneaking emulators through a hole in the Xbox Store - Ars Technica
- Microsoft could soon assign each and every Office worker a 'Productivity Score' - MSPoweruser
- Windows 10 might install and run Android apps directly next year - SlashGear
- Bill Gates Looks Back on “The Road Ahead” - Thurrott.com
- Elon Musk eclipses Bill Gates to become the world’s second richest person
- As low-code and no-code approaches rise, developers brace for new challenges - ZDNet
- Windows turns 35- a visual history - The Verge
- Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks launch the GitOps Working Group - SD Times
- Developer experience- an essential aspect of enterprise architecture - Enable Architect
- GitHub expands open source archive program into three key libraries - InfoWorld
- My biggest Apple M1 question- What's Intel been doing all these years- - ZDNet
- Upwork's top 15 most in-demand tech skills - TechRepublic
- Amazon opens online pharmacy, shaking up another industry
- Hackers are leaning more heavily on cloud resources - ITProPortal
- Coffee is a health drink, and here’s how much you should be consuming – BGR
- Google says it 'may' delete your files if you don't log in enough
- New lawsuit- Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in
- Blazor- Full stack C# and Microsoft's pitch for ASP.NET Web Form diehards ? The Register
- Proof the workday is longer since COVID - Work Life by Atlassian
- You Don't Understand Your Users - Simple Thread
- What Quantum Computing Could Mean for Software Development - InformationWeek
- What's quantum computing- CERN's new free online course offers you the answer - ZDNet
- Microsoft leaks mockup of Windows 10's new UI with rounded corners
- Bring psychological safety into your test team
- We did NAT see that coming- How malicious JavaScript can open holes in your firewall for miscreants to slip through ? The Reg
- These software bugs are years old. But businesses still aren't patching them - ZDNet
- Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating system
- The Raspberry Pi 400 is a $70 keyboard that's also a computer - Engadget
- Why does it take so long to build software- - Simple Thread
- Satya Nadella says Microsoft is doubling down on Windows - MSPoweruser
- Businesses still failing to equip employees with adequate technology - ITProPortal
- What Programming Skills Do Developers Think They Will Need Over the Next 3 Years- · DeveloperMedia
- 5 survival tips for when software testing accidents happen
- Apple develops alternative to Google search - Ars Technica
- Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner ? The Register
- The No-Code Generation is arriving - TechCrunch
- Is Blazor a Safe Enterprise Bet
- 5 Programming Languages Doomed Over the Next 10 Years
- Number of infected IoT devices has doubled since last year - ITProPortal
- How to Beat Hackers Targeting Backups with Ransomware Attacks - IT Pro
- Machine identity attacks grow more than 400 percent
- No-code application development with Google Cloud’s AppSheet
- A comprehensive list of reasons why pair programming sucks
- After years of justifying YouTube, former Google CEO calls social networks ‘amplifiers for idiots’ - The Verge
- More sensitive data is moving to the cloud than ever - ITProPortal
- Consciousness Is An Energy Field, New Research Claims - Futurism
- Developer survey- C# losing ground to JavaScript, PHP and Java for cloud apps, still big in gaming ? The Register
- Machines to 'do half of all work tasks by 2025' - BBC News
- C# designer Torgersen- Why the programming language is still so popular and where it's going next - TechRepublic
- SonarSource Blog ? For secure code, maintainability matters
- Don't Work Alone When You're a New or Junior Engineer - The Pragmatic Engineer
- A Highly Biased Review of C# Changes from Version 1.0 to 9.0 - Young Coder - Matthew MacDonald - Young Coder
- Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity- – The New Stack
- Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition Changed Windows Development Forever - IT Pro
- This is what “war in space” probably would look like in the near future - Ars Technica
- Google now allows you to hum, whistle or sing a melody to find the song stuck in your head - MSPoweruser
- Do we live in a simulation- Chances are about 50–50. - Live Science
- Evaluating risk in an application
- IT teams spend 44 percent of their time on routine work
- 5 reasons NOT to grow your QA department
- Here’s Doom running on a Samsung fridge thanks to xCloud - The Verge
- YouTuber Gets Doom to Run Powered Completely by Potatoes
- Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup - POLITICO
- Scientists find the fastest possible speed of sound
- Microsoft's VS Code comes to Raspberry Pi and Chromebook – new v1.50 update is out - ZDNet
- Resources to become a Well-Rounded Full-Stack Developer - Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
- Google wants to turn YouTube into QVC with new shopping features - Ars Technica
- Microsoft is letting more employees work from home permanently - The Verge
- Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record - Quanta Magazine
- Nearly a third would quit their job if remote working was not supported - ITProPortal
- As developers and app stores go to war, Microsoft introduces 10 principles of fairness ? OnMSFT.com
- IBM to split into two companies by end of 2021 - Ars Technica
- The most valuable software developer skills to get hired now - InfoWorld
- Uno Platform Introduction to WebAssembly for .NET Developers- Building with Uno Platform, XAML, and C#
- Microsoft announces new initiatives to promote cybersecurity awareness - Neowin
- Microsoft- Learn JavaScript programming language for free with our new course - ZDNet
- Microsoft CEO Says Remote Work Can Feel Like ‘Sleeping at Work’ - IT Pro
- Announcing Google Workspace, everything you need to get it done, in one location - Google Cloud Blog
- The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time - The Verge
- Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon Are Monopolies- Antitrust Committee
- Developers Are in Charge Again – The New Stack
- Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand - The Verge
- Google Developers Blog- Introducing Learn, your key to unlocking Google’s educational content for developers
- Complexity has broken computer security, says academic who helped spot Meltdown and Spectre flaws ? The Register
- Apple sues recycling firm for stealing and reselling 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches - The Verge
- IBM sends its open-source space technology into orbit - SiliconANGLE
- IonQ announces what it calls the most powerful quantum computer ever - Axios
- Code Small with C# in .NET nanoFramework for Embedded Systems -- Visual Studio Magazine
- 40th Anniversary of The Ethernet
- Developers and security professionals sacrifice security for speed
- 3 things you ought to know about User Acceptance Testing
- 'Liking' an article online may mean less time spent reading it
- Programming languages- Java founder James Gosling reveals more on Java and Android - ZDNet
- Reading Code Is a Skill - DZone Agile
- Microsoft- Some ransomware attacks take less than 45 minutes - ZDNet
- Microsoft thinks remote workers need a 'virtual commute' - Engadget