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New iPhone RumoredBBC: "Industry watchers are speculating that a new iPhone will also be released around the same time as the software upgrade. "It wouldn't… Started by Michael Levin |
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iPhone Open Application Development, by Jonathan ZdziarskiiPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone looks at Objective-C to get you started and then… Started by Michael Levin |
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iPhone Dev ShopsWar Drum Studios is a local (Gainesville) iPhone development shop. Their specialty is games for the iPhone. One of their products is Texas… Started by Michael Levin |
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Mar 21, 2009 Reply by Michael Levin |
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Google has introduced Middleware for Genkit, its open-source framework for building AI-powered and agentic applications. The update adds a programmable interception layer around model calls, tool execution, and generation loops, giving developers more control over reliability, safety, and orchestration inside production AI systems.
By Robert Krzaczyński
AWS has recently made its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server generally available, giving AI coding agents controlled access to AWS APIs, documentation, and operational workflows through a standard interface. It provides a safer and more auditable way to connect AI agents to AWS services without handing over broad credentials.
By Renato Losio
At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and in engines like Spark, Flink, and Trino without duplicating data.
By Renato Losio
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds, and shifts from pointwise scoring to listwise GenRec for improved contextual ranking and real-time personalization.
By Leela Kumili
InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs.
By Artenisa Chatziou
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