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Dozer, an emerging data solution platform, helps developers build real-time data applications swiftly. The not-quite open-source start-up recently raised $3 million in seed funding from Sequoia's Indian arm, Google's Gradient Ventures, and January Capital.

Low-code technologies are transforming the relationship between design and development teams, paving the way for non-developers to create innovative technology products.

San Francisco-based start-up, Narrato, raised a $1 million pre-seed round lead by AirTree Ventures, with participation from others like OfBusiness and Shreesha Ramdas. Narrato plans to harness the power of generative AI to transform marketing and content creation workflows.

An experiment involving OpenAI's ChatGPT highlights a broader concern with AI systems in handling context and circumventing safeguards. In this case, the chatbot was manipulated into generating working keys for outdated Windows 95 by changing the context of the user's request.

Google has announced four new features to facilitate travel planning and itinerary development for its user base. These updates primarily involve Google Flights and Google Search, with a focus on ensuring users find the best travel deals.

Apple CEO Tim Cook emphasizes the potential of augmented reality (AR) to enhance communication and human connections.

Apple may limit access to iMessage, FaceTime, Maps and other services on devices running older versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, according to a new leak. The change might occur as early as May, prompting users to upgrade their software for better security and functionality.

The advent of ChatGPT brings with it both potential benefits and drawbacks in the cybersecurity landscape.

Twitter’s source code leaked on GitHub, raising questions about security and transparency among major corporations.

The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the FTC to investigate OpenAI's GPT-4 and halt its commercial deployment, alleging biased, deceptive practices and risk to public safety.

Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch includes four promising startups inspired by ChatGPT's success: Yuma, Baselit, Lasso, and BerriAI, all targeting different sectors with AI-powered solutions.

Fixie, an innovative AI startup founded by former Apple and Google engineering heads, aims to make it easier for businesses to harness generative AI.

The release of Swift 5.8 offers enhancements for the developer experience, Windows support, and previews of Swift 6 features. New functionality includes concise magic file names, regex literals, and further improvements in language and standard library enhancements.

The upcoming ECMAScript 2023 is set to introduce new capabilities for arrays and WeakMap keys in JavaScript. Key features include the addition of .findlast() and .findLastIndex() methods on the array, permitting symbols as keys in WeakMap, changing array by copy, and standardizing hashbang grammar.

The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the FTC, alleging that OpenAI's GPT-4 violates regulations on deception and unfairness. CAIDP seeks an investigation into OpenAI and GPT-4, claiming the AI model is biased, deceptive, and potentially harmful to privacy and public safety.

In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Jotform stepped up to provide support to charities and organizations by adapting their web form tools for disaster relief.

Apple's highly anticipated watchOS 10 is set to deliver major software upgrades, enhancing the user experience for existing Apple Watch models. Despite minimal hardware advancements this year, software improvements promise to reinvigorate older models.

Visual Studio Code 1.77 launches a preview of enhanced GitHub Copilot integration, including inline suggestions and chat capabilities.

AutoCAD 2024 is now available with native Apple silicon support and advanced machine learning capabilities, significantly enhancing performance for both Mac and Windows users to create a more efficient design experience.

Facial recognition firm, Clearview AI, is increasingly used by US law enforcement, despite privacy concerns and wrongful arrests.

Apple has launched Xcode 14.3 for developers, incorporating the latest SDKs for iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3, enabling the creation of fully compatible applications for Apple's newest operating systems.

ChatGPT faces scrutiny from Italy's data protection authority over possible GDPR violations, sparking an investigation.

Insurtech company Socotra has teamed up with Mendix, a Siemens business, under the Mendix Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. Socotra brings innovative insurance solutions to the table by utilizing Mendix's industry-leading low-code platform, allowing insurers to customize their systems for maximum efficiency.

Google's Nearby Share, a competitor to Apple's AirDrop, receives a significant upgrade with the launch of its Windows PC app beta.

The UK government has introduced a new regulatory framework focusing on encouraging AI innovation while preserving public trust. The strategy outlines five core principles for AI development, including safety, transparency, fairness, accountability, and contestability.

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and over 1,000 experts have penned an open letter, urging a temporary halt on the development of AI technology more potent than OpenAI’s GPT-4, expressing concerns about its profound risks to society and humanity.

Apple Pay Later finally rolls out to selected users in 45 US states, allowing loans for eligible customers from $50 to $1,000. The service, which was initially planned for a September 2022 launch alongside iOS 16, faced several delays due to technical setbacks.

Congress has raised concerns over Sony's alleged anti-competitive conduct within the Japanese gaming market.

The UK's Information Commission’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to tech companies about data protection laws when developing generative AI models.

OpenAI has introduced support for plug-ins in ChatGPT to facilitate the integration of the AI-based natural language processor into various products. Major companies, including Expedia, Klarna, and Shopify, have already created plug-ins to utilize chatbot capabilities within their services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) adds machine learning (ML)-based call analytics capabilities to the Amazon Chime SDK to generate insights from real-time audio calls, transcripts, and voice analysis.

Yugabyte has introduced new features to its YugabyteDB Managed, including a managed Command Line Interface (CLI), support for AWS PrivateLink, enhanced observability, and improved scalability.

Oracle unveils Oracle JDK 20, the latest release of the Java SE platform with improved performance, stability, and security features, and its first edition under the new Java SE Universal Subscription.

Appy Pie Design unveils AI Photo Enhancer, an AI-powered platform designed to improve image quality and make them visually stunning. Utilizing advanced algorithms, it quickly adjusts brightness, contrast, saturation, and more, catering to photographers, designers, and enthusiasts.

GitHub unveils Copilot X, an upgraded AI-powered coding assistant featuring OpenAI's GPT-4 model, chat and voice interfaces, pull request support, and more.

A new proposal in the Java community aims to improve application performance by extending the Z Garbage Collector, enabling it to maintain separate generations for young and old objects, reducing allocation stall risks, heap memory overhead, and garbage collection CPU overhead.

This article examines the major changes in TypeScript 5, including variadic tuple types, key remapping in mapped types, improved type inference, and faster compilation, increasing the language's efficiency and power.

IFTTT brings new AI-powered automations to its platform, allowing Pro Plus subscribers to generate AI summaries, social media content, and blog posts with ease.

Low-code and no-code tools are becoming an effective solution for professional developers to increase productivity, address business challenges, and manage intricate applications.

Fermyon Technologies has unveiled Spin 1.0, the first stable release of its open-source framework for building event-driven microservices and web apps using WebAssembly. Spin simplifies WebAssembly app development and supports multiple programming languages, offering a CLI for creating distributed applications.

GitHub Copilot X, an AI-powered programmer's assistant, will integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 to add chat, voice capabilities, and comprehensive support for pull requests, command-line, and documentation.

OpenAI introduces third-party plugins and web-browsing features to ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to access external data sources for better responses. The Alpha version is available to ChatGPT developers and subscribers, with potential drawbacks and security concerns carefully addressed.

Quickbase records $200M in revenue, displaying balance between growth and profitability. Fueled by targeted industry solutions, new product offerings, and smart investments, the company's growth reflects the need for effective, customizable workflow tools.

Google unveils Bard, a new AI chatbot developed as competition to ChatGPT. Early users find Bard useful for generating ideas or text, but Google admits it may create hallucinated or inaccurate responses.

EnterpriseDB introduces EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) 5.0, a solution that aims to provide extreme high availability and operational resiliency for Postgres databases. PGD 5.0 features unique active-active technology, enabling enterprises to minimize downtime and protect their business-critical applications.

Mozilla.ai, the new startup from Mozilla, aims to build an open-source, independent AI ecosystem focused on trust and positive contributions to humanity. With a vision for AI products steeped in transparency, accountability, and openness, Mozilla.ai seeks to create a truly trustworthy alternative to existing AI technologies.

Industry leaders in low-code and no-code platforms share their insights on how their solutions empower developers, enhance productivity, and speed up development processes.

Webflow, a leading visual development platform, has appointed well-known tech executive Allan Leinwand as their new CTO to oversee the engineering team and propel the company's growth and product innovations.

Google cautiously rolls out its Bard chatbot for early access in the US and UK amid competition with Microsoft's ChatGPT. The two AI chatbots will now vie for users' attention as no-code platforms continue to revolutionize application development.

Adobe is diving headfirst into the world of generative AI with the integration of the innovative Firefly tool into its creative and enterprise apps. Adobe seeks to change the face of brand assets, illustrations, and corporate videos with AI-driven design and streamlined collaboration.

As the EU finalizes its AI Act and the global AI regulatory landscape evolves, businesses must prepare for stricter AI regulations impacting their operations.

Microsoft is preparing to enter the mobile app store space and challenge the duopoly of Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store by leveraging impending European Union legislation.

Paperwork automation platform Anvil partners with no-code automation leader Zapier to enable seamless data collection, document generation, and workflow automation across over 5,000 apps for companies like Layr Insurance and Spruce Health.

Discord is rolling out a suite of AI-powered features including an AI chatbot, automated AI moderator, conversation summarizer, avatar remixer, and a whiteboard, aimed at improving users' communication experience.

Microsoft has incorporated Bing AI chatbot functionality into a sidebar in its Edge web browser, providing easy access to AI assistance for users during their browsing sessions.

As AI-powered tools like ChatGPT continue to evolve, will they impact the low-code and no-code development industry? This article analyzes ChatGPT's potential in democratizing software development and how it could augment or disrupt the existing low-code/no-code landscape.

As OpenAI's ChatGPT gains traction, new tools such as GPTZero and Got It AI's truth-checker are being developed to counteract plagiarism and hallucination.

With Microsoft incorporating ChatGPT into its low-code Power Platform, this integration signals more native inclusion of AI models within low-code development environments. In this analysis, we explore the benefits, implications, and challenges of leveraging large language models in low-code frameworks.

How can engineering leaders drive growth and competitiveness in a downturn?

While low-code platforms are widely known for empowering citizen developers, the technology also redefines the role of professional developers, boosting productivity, fostering collaboration, and improving job satisfaction.

Go, the programming language created by Google, returns to TIOBE's top 10 programming languages, demonstrating its continued popularity among engineers.

OpenAI has introduced GPT-4, an advanced multimodal AI capable of processing text and images, unlocking numerous use cases. The advanced model is now available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers with plans for API accessibility.

Microsoft has disbanded its AI ethics team amidst wider workforce reductions, raising concerns about its commitment to responsible AI development.

The tech industry faces ongoing developer shortages and remote work challenges in 2023, according to Infragistics' Reveal survey.

Google has unveiled a plan to provide free machine-learning translations for Android applications, aiding developers in expanding their reach without significant additional costs.

Google announced a sneak peek of leading-edge AI features equipped for its Workspace tools, providing users and developers access to advanced tools like AI composition, PaLM API and Vertex AI augmentations.

Mendix makes significant progress in their collaboration with AWS, introducing a new suite of AWS connectors and a Mendix Authentication Connector for AWS services. Additionally, the Mendix Reference Deployment reduces setup time in the customer's AWS environment from 40 hours to just 30 minutes.

Microsoft now offers ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot technology, through its Azure OpenAI Service.

Enterprises facing a shortage of professional developers are increasingly turning to low-code/no-code and intelligent development tools. This article explores cost-effective strategies and components CIOs should consider when purchasing low-code/no-code platforms, ensuring maximum ROI.

Blockchain technology offers secure, efficient solutions to traditional electronic health records systems. Patients and healthcare providers can benefit from cost savings, reduced errors, and improved data integrity, ultimately enhancing healthcare delivery.

Amit Mathradas, former Avalara president, is set to take over as the CEO of Bellevue-based workflow automation company Nintex.

Quickbase has announced new AI-driven capabilities like Smart Builder and Gantt Chart, promising to boost organizational efficiency and streamline project management. These intelligent tools aim to help businesses build applications faster, simplify workflows, and improve decision-making with better data access.

Strapi, the renowned headless CMS startup, introduces Strapi Cloud, a cloud-hosted version of its popular content management system. This offering removes server management concerns so developers can concentrate on front-end code, providing flexibility with different front-end frameworks and customizable infrastructure.

Explore the 12 elements of an effective software supply chain strategy in the context of recent cybersecurity guidelines such as President Biden's Executive Order 14028.

Intel has released Version 1.0 of the Intel Quantum Software Development Kit (SDK), a toolkit that provides a full quantum computer simulation and integration with Intel quantum hardware.

CTOs play a crucial role in upskilling and reskilling IT talent, which is essential for business competitiveness.

GSMA has introduced its Open Gateway, a comprehensive framework of universal network APIs designed to provide limitless access to operator networks for developers.

Although low-code platforms offer numerous benefits, their security capabilities remain a concern. This article discusses the risks associated with low-code platforms, suggestions for secure implementation, and the importance of choosing platforms with built-in security controls like AppMaster.io.

OpenAI unveils its API for the popular AI-powered text generator, ChatGPT, allowing businesses to integrate the technology into their apps, websites, and services.

Phyllo and Bubble have partnered to offer a no-code solution for accessing authenticated creator data, empowering businesses and entrepreneurs in the influencer marketing and creator economy space. This collaboration simplifies building applications that leverage creator information from over 20 social media platforms through a single API.

A new study by BenchSci reveals AI professionals consider flexibility, stability, and career progression as top priorities when choosing an employer, instead of perks like large salaries and brand recognition.

SAP is set to cut up to 3,000 jobs as part of a targeted restructuring, aiming to focus on the cloud market.

MacStadium's Orka Platform, an alternative to vSphere for virtualized Macs, is now available at the AWS Marketplace, providing support to developers in the growing Mac community, especially after VMware's recent decision to abandon Mac support.

Appy Pie App Builder leaps ahead in no-code app development by incorporating artificial intelligence with its new AI App Generator. The unique platform empowers users to build and launch fully functional mobile applications swiftly, making app development accessible and convenient for all.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into diverse industries, and its adoption in the technology sector is both highly anticipated and controversial.

Journeying through Suresh Sambandam's arduous path to success as founder and CEO of SaaS company Kissflow, the low-code, no-code platform.

New research from OutSystems reveals the high cost of developing cloud-native infrastructure. Introducing OutSystems Developer Cloud (ODC), an affordable low-code platform for building strategic cloud-native applications, reducing both cost and time-to-market.

Technical debt is a growing issue for organizations, impacting efficiency, innovation, and digital transformation efforts.

Axelar unveils the game-changing Axelar Virtual Machine, a programmable interoperability layer that simplifies multi-chain dApp deployment and management, seamlessly connecting various blockchain ecosystems and paving the way for the next-gen interchain infrastructure.

Microsoft is set to increase the pricing of Bing Search APIs by over three times across all markets in a bid to recoup investments in the search engine. The new pricing will be effective May 1, 2023, and will apply to Bing's various APIs, including Image, Video, News, and Visual Search, as well as Entity Search, Web Search, Autosuggest, and Spell Check.

Digital-first technology services company Apexon partners with LambdaTest, an innovative digital experience testing cloud provider, to deliver cloud-based quality engineering and assurance solutions.

Samsung and Huawei encounter a decrease in the Android market shares, while Chinese smartphone manufacturers Oppo and Vivo gain momentum.

This article discusses how DevOps teams can utilize Agile methodologies to improve business performance and deliver top-notch customer experiences.

Microsoft has announced a substantial rise in Bing Search API fees, raising concerns for developers who rely on the service. No-code and low-code platforms like AppMaster offer cost-effective alternatives for backend, web, and mobile application development.

Pydantic, a leading open-source data-validation framework for Python, secures $4.7M seed funding led by Sequoia to advance its cloud services. With a wide user base that includes leading tech giants, the framework is going to commercialize and expand.

As major tech companies reduce their workforce, IT professionals might face a market slowdown.

The introduction of web app push notifications in iOS 16.4 heralds significant advancements for web app functionality on iDevices.

Low-code and no-code technologies are emerging as a solution to addressing the lack of digital skills in today's competitive job market. By empowering citizen developers, bridging the gap between business and IT, increasing salaries, and boosting job satisfaction, low-code and no-code can help employees advance their careers and meet the demands of the labor market.

Twitter has yet again postponed its API changes as worries about potential effects on users and developers mount.

Thunkable introduces Thunkable Organizations, featuring collaboration, administration, and version control tools, catering to organizations of all sizes for seamless, mobile-first app development.

LinkedIn has disclosed a comprehensive list of skills employers prioritize when recruiting in various industries. The top 10 overall hard skills are led by IT and software development. The list highlights the increasing importance of technology and communication in the current job market.

Coding Dojo reveals the most sought-after programming languages for 2023 based on full-time job openings. As demand for machine learning solutions grows, Python climbs to the top spot, and the technology landscape sees a rise in no-code and low-code platform adoption.