British number theorist Andrew Wiles has received the 2016 Abel Prize for his solution to Fermat’s last theorem — a problem that stumped some of the world’s greatest minds for three and a half centuries.
Source: Fermat’s last theorem earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize
Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference.
Source: Google launches new services for Android game developers
On behalf of the Project Comet team, I’m thrilled to let you know that Project Comet has become Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview), or Adobe XD as we refer to it. We’re making our first preview release for Mac OS available today, with a Windows version coming later this year.
Tired of writing code? Me too! Let’s have Stack Overflow do it. To complete at run time, it uses the same logic to find the left-hand trace at the current cursor position, and tries to match that up against the database of completion fragments.
Source: Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
Well, this was unexpected. Starting today, Google is making a developer preview of the next version of Android, codenamed “N,” available for Nexus devices. That’s much, much earlier than ever before — Google usually waits until its IO developer conference.
Source: The Android N developer preview with split-screen multitasking is available today
Ten years ago, mobile development was tough: the industry was quite nascent and the desktop was still the center of computing.
At Instagram, we treat performance as a feature, and as we build products, we constantly think about how we can make things faster and more efficient. We’ve found that improving performance can actually drive usage, and by making small changes we can also improve user experience with the service.
Source: Performance & Usage at Instagram
Google today announced a few enhancements for the Google Play Developer Console, which Android app developers can use to monitor the usage of their apps. Now developers have an easy way to see the most common themes that end users mention in their app reviews.
Source: Google Play now lets Android app developers see review highlights, ratings charts
Being a programmer and knowing how to create your own software is awesome. Not only does this open up lots doors in terms of your career but it’s also just an incredibly rewarding experience and one that has endless uses.
Folks running Chrome on iOS have had a chance to tap into the Physical Web devices around them since last July, but Google’s finally opened that functionality up to its own ecosystem. To that end, Chrome 49 on Android will support the objects (like parking meters, for instance).
Source: Chrome on Android communicates with smart devices around you