Unity is often used to create incredible worlds people use to take a break from reality, but a new collaboration uses the 3D content platform to tackle a real-world problem that impacts all of humanity.
A new grant, the Unity For Humanity Environment and Sustainability Grant, has been...
Bluesource has released a solution that switches apps using GMS (Google Mobile Services) for HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) to enable AppGallery distribution.
The open-source solution is called the Choice SDK and aims to save developers time and cost in converting their existing apps...
Perl Core developer Sawyer X is hanging up his keyboard and quitting the language’s community following what he calls “continuous abusive behaviour” from prominent members.
Sawyer X became “pumpking” – manager of the core Perl 5 language – in 2016, after taking over from...
Huawei’s in-house operating system HarmonyOS is aiming to connect 300 million devices by the end of this year.
The OS claims to enable devices to connect and collaborate “in a single language” to deliver a seamless user experience. The concept can be likened to Microsoft’s...
Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature hasn’t been publicly released yet, but a Chinese state-backed ad technology wants to circumvent it.
ATT is due to be rolled out alongside iOS 14.5 sometime this spring. The feature, which has drawn both praise and criticism, will...
Open-source developer platform Gitpod has announced a slew of enhancements after raising $13 million in venture capital funding.
The platform – which is used by over 350k global developers – aims to streamline workflows by providing prebuilt, collaborative browser-based...
Microsoft has announced the preview of its own build of OpenJDK, a free and open-source implementation of the Java SE platform.
The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is a long-term support (LTS) distribution that includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10+9, on x64 server and...
There have been many innovations in voice communication over the past few hundred years — everything from phonographs to telephones to digital recordings and playback. Humanity has taken another leap forward in recent decades with voice-recognition and -controlled technologies like Google...
A bill in Arizona that would have enabled developers to avoid the in-app purchase (IAP) rules set by app stores has been ditched.
Many developers have argued for some time that Apple and Google have abused their market dominance to set unfair rules. State bill HB2005 would have forced...
GitHub has launched its secret scanning tool for private repositories alongside a new security overview dashboard.
The world’s largest repo host first unveiled the fraud-preventing secret scanning feature in May last year as part of GitHub Advanced Security—a package of features...
