Freemium app model remains best option for developers
More than 60% of app developers recommend a “freemium” model for monetizing a mobile app, according to a new survey.
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Samsung wants to put its digital assistant in fridges and TVs
The company will soon bring its digital assistant to appliances, starting with its own refrigerators and smart TVs. Samsung is also working with third-party developers to open up Bixby to non-Samsung products “in the near future.”
DeepMind’s Go-playing AI doesn’t need human help to beat us anymore
The company’s latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over
Google, IBM and others launch an open-source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains
Google, JFrog, Red Hat, IBM, Black Duck, Twistlock, Aqua Security and CoreOS today announced Grafeas (“scribe” in Greek), a new joint open-source project that provides users with a standardized way for auditing and governing their software supply chain.
Bringing Node.js and Drupal together
Acquia has unveiled a new application service for Acquia Cloud that makes it easy for digital IT teams to build and run JavaScript alongside Drupal.
Nvidia claims its new supercomputer ‘Pegasus’ will enable the highest level of automated driving
The new iteration of the GPU maker’s Drive PX platform will deliver over 320 trillion operations per second, which amounts to more than 10 times its predecessor’s processing power.
Steelcase launches IoT, smart office analytics platform with Microsoft Azure
Steelcase’s foray into the data science behind the office revolves around a sensor network and analytics to measure real estate and physical space utilization and them optimize it.
SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux
Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows. At almost 30 years of age, Microsoft’s flagship database has learned many new tricks.
Shopping in AR is the future says Overstock
Overstock.com, Inc. will be launching augmented reality (AR) within the retailer’s iOS shopping app.
IBM and MIT pen 10-year, $240M AI research partnership
MIT plans to publish papers related to the research, while the two parties plan to open source a good part of the code.