Learning to code on iOS, FBI “don’t indict”, Lyle gets Echo, Facebook Changes their focus, Google Source Code management, Geek news of the week, and lots of post-show code geekery.
At WWDC 2016 Apple announced Swift Playgrounds for iOS. Swift Playgrounds is an app that is connected to a larger initiative from Apple called “Everyone Can Code”.
Everyone Can Code comprises the Swift Playgrounds app itself, a series of teacher and student guide books on the iBookstore and a suite of curriculum content delivered inside the Swift Playgrounds app.
Erica Sadun and Ash Furrow offer more opinions on IOS Playgrounds.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has completed its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server and is recommending that the Department of Justice not indict Clinton, FBI Director James Comey
Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more
We conducted two separate studies in early May, since our intuition told us voice would be a major theme of Google I/O and at Apple
Some awesome things that Siri can do for you include posting to Twitter or Facebook, search for Tweets, math, and more.
Said the pair in a statement:
The company has announced that it is making a huge tweak to its news feed that will privilege
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Facebook is shutting down Paper,
PBS Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth. Host Matt O’Dowd breaks down the both the basic and incredibly complex sides of space and time.
Or watch on youtube instead.
Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed through a centralized source control system. This approach has served Google well for more than 16 years, and today the vast majority of Google’s software assets continues to be stored in a single, shared repository. Meanwhile, the number of Google software developers has steadily increased, and the size of the Google codebase has grown exponentially (see Figure 1). As a result, the technology used to host the codebase has also evolved significantly.
Experts say the adult VR industry will reach $1 billion by 2025 and new data suggests their claims are becoming a reality.
Statistics from Google Trends shows that searches for ‘VR porn’ have increased by 9,900 per cent over the past 17 months.
Episode 27 Season 16
