By Paul Krill Google has updated both its Flutter multiplatform application development framework and the accompanying Dart language. In making these updates, the company stressed the addition of the WebAssembly bytecode instruction format as a compilation target for web apps built with Flutter and Dart. The announcement follows recent reports of Google laying off staff from the Dart and Flutter teams. Flutter 3.22 and Dart 3.4 were announced on May 14, offering performance boosts and platform-specific refinements. With Flutter 3.22, WebAssembly (Wasm) is brought to the stable channel, offerin...
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By Paul Krill Google has expanded on its Gemma family of AI models, introducing the PaliGemma vision-language model (VLM) and announcing Gemma 2, the next generation of Gemma models based on a new architecture. The company also released the LLM Comparator in open source, an addition to its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit. Google announced the new products on May 14. The company described PaliGemma as a powerful open VLM inspired by the Pali-3 vision-language models, intended to be smaller, faster, and stronger. Built on components from the SigLIP vision model, PaliGemma is designed for a ran...
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By Serdar Yegulalp Microservices architectures solve some problems but introduce others. Dividing applications into independent services simplifies development, updates, and scaling. But it also gives you many more moving parts to connect and secure. Managing all the network services—load balancing, traffic management, authentication and authorization, and so on—can become stupendously complex. The term for this networked space between the services in your Kubernetes cluster is service mesh. A Google project, Istio, is all about providing a way to manage your cluster’s service mesh before it t...
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By Paul Krill Along with releasing Python specialists, Google also has laid off Flutter and Dart teams according to various reports. Google did not respond this morning to InfoWorld's inquiry about Flutter and Dart layoffs. But comments were circulating online about staff reductions at Google. Flutter is an open source framework for building multi-platform applications from a single codebase. Dart, a language leveraged by Flutter, was once positioned as a rival to JavaScript. Google pledged to unveil updates to Flutter at the Google I/O conference in two weeks. With the reduction of staff for ...
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By Paul Krill Several online news outlets report that Google laid off its entire Python language team. However, Google denied that the layoffs were company-wide when asked about the fate of the team. Reports of the Python team’s dismissal have shown up in Reddit, Hacker News, and social.coop. “Google’s Python team was a small team, most of which were also on the Python steering council or core Python developers,” one commenter said in Hacker News. “These people had decades of experience in Python. Their knowledge and community connections [are] irreplaceable.” Python has become an increasingly...
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By Paul Krill Google has introduced Jpegli, a JPEG library for image encoding. The new library is intended to be faster, more visually pleasing, and more efficient than traditional JPEGs. Proponents of the technology said it has the potential to make the Internet faster and more beautiful. Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub, Jpegli maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio at high-quality compression settings, Google said. Jpegli works by using new techniques to reduce noise and improve image quality. New or improved featur...
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