This Week In Spring

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I’m in Budapest, Hungary, for the amazing Craft Conf. This show is a very special show indeed. Special, for me, first in that I’ll be joined by industry titans like Adrian Cochroft, Jez Humble, Sam Newman, and Kyle Kingsbury, and in that I’ll join two of my friends from Pivotal – Andrew Clay Shafer and Bridget Kromhout (also titans)! I’m so excited to be among these, and many more, that I can hardly contain it and I recommend you consider making the trip if it’s convenient, one day, yourself. Read more…

Software will help doctors in Aids battle

Imogen Wright, 30, a South African with a PhD in computational biology, has developed Exa-type, software that will help doctors determine, in minutes, what drugs an HIV-positive patient may be resistant to. Wright is one of 10 nominees vying for a share of a $150,000 innovation prize to be awarded through a Zurich-based NGO, the African Innovation Foundation. Four of the nominees are South African. Read more…

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it’s incredible

Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple’s iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone. Today the pair showed off their newest creation, Viv, a next generation AI assistant that they have been developing in stealth mode for the last four years. The goal was to create a better version of Siri, one that connected to a multitude of services, instead of routinely shuffling queries off to a basic web search.  Read More…

New Awesome Tools: WebRTC 

For anyone who doesn’t already know, WebRTC is, very simply put, a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. Voice and video in the browser is changing the way we communicate. Read more…

XLR8 Conference 2016

Join us on 14th May at Sofia Event Center and hear the insights of some of the sharpest minds in the fields of JavaScript and Mobile Development! XLR8 2016 will bring you the innovative practices, methodologies and trends in JavaScript & Mobile Development. For ‪#‎XLR8con‬’s first edition, we’ve also prepared a surprise bonus track for you: Learn some handy Soft Skills & UX Design Tips which will help you become an even more successful developer. Read more…