15 January 2021

43 links · Friday

Ask the Experts: Customer Experience Reimagined with AI

Observe.AI, part of the Microsoft for Startups program, is leveraging the power of voice and AI to empower contact center teams to enhance customer experience, improve agent performance, ensure compli

Be My Eyes - See the world together

Whether you need a pair of sharp eyes or have some sight to lend, Be My Eyes is a simple, free tool to help people see the world better, together.

Why cancer cells waste so much energy

MIT biologists have found a possible explanation for the Warburg effect, first seen in cancer cells in the 1920s. They found cancer cells use fermentation, an inefficient metabolic pathway, because it helps them to generate large quantities of a molecule calle…

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Importing an OpenAPI API into Azure API Management Service | Developer Support

Bryan Soltis walks us through the process of importing an OpenAPI API into the Azure API Management Service, making it easy for developers to manage systems on a global level and empower users to develop their applications. Creating an API is a pretty standard…

Food on the table while giving away code

I founded the curl project early 1998 but had already then been working on the code since November 1996. The source code was always open, free and available to the world. The term “open source” actually wasn’t even coined until early 1998, just weeks before c…

HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media

HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and prod…

Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down

Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the…

Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

List of Computer Science courses with video lectures. - Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

The perils of the accidental C++ conversion constructor | The Old New Thing

Consider this class: class Buffer { public: Buffer(size_t capacity); Buffer(std::initializer_list<int> values); }; You can create an uninitialized buffer with a particular capacity, or you can create an initialized buffer. The one-parameter constructor also…

KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures

The TLS 1.3 protocol has been around for quite some time, but it will be broken once quantum computers arrive. What can we do? In this blog post, we will examine a technique for achieving full post-quantum security for TLS 1.3 in the face of quantum computers:…

Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World

Introduction Last week, we talked about using a new Apple M1 based Macintosh as a development workstation and how installing Apple’s development system XCode also installed a large number of open s…

Change Notifications with Microsoft Graph

The Microsoft Graph API uses a webhook mechanism to deliver change notifications to clients Vincent Biret joins Cecil in this episode to show us how to setup our applications to receive notifications

Software development in 2021 and beyond - The Official Microsoft Blog

2020 is now – finally – hindsight. It was a year of unprecedented disruption – how businesses connected with their employees and customers transformed nearly overnight. We saw organizations rapidly pivot to remote-first environments, undergoing years’ worth of…

MSIX Packaging Tool January 2021 Release is now available!

Happy New Year! We are excited to announce that the January 2021 release (1.2020.1219.0) of the MSIX Packaging Tool is now available!   We have released the MSIX Packaging Tool through the Microsoft Store, and are offering the offline download of the tool and …

Pauline Hanson&#8217;s website domain has been snapped up and redirected

RUMOUR CONFIRMED Those looking for One Nation senator Pauline Hanson’s website may be surprised by what they find. Ms Hanson’s website domain has expired, and it’s been snapped up by someone else. PaulineHanson.com.au now redirects to the Ref…

Farmer - Making Repeatable Azure Deployments Easy

Infrastructure as code is one of the most important and underutilized aspects of DevOps. In this episode of DevOps Lab, we will talk about a cool way to handle Infrastructure as code for Azure using