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Free Course - Advanced Android With Kotlin   Wednesday 30 October

Google has contributed another free course on the Udacity platform. At intermediate level, it comprises six lessons and should take about two months to complete and is for those who are already comfortable with Object Oriented Programming and Android fundamentals with Kotlin.

There Really Are No More IPv4 Addresses   Wednesday 30 October

RIPE, which manages IP address distribution for a large part of the world, has updated its address space chart showing how many addresses are left. It is clear that unless something unexpected happens RIPE will run out of addresses in November.

Node.js Released With Diagnostic Reporting   Tuesday 29 October

Node.js 13 has been released with upgrades to V8 and new features including diagnostic reporting. Node.js 12 was moved to long term support at the same time.

Electron 7 Adds Native Theme API   Tuesday 29 October

Electron 7.0.0 has been released with improvements including a Windows on Arm 64 release, faster IPC methods, and a new native theme API. It also includes upgrades to Chromium 78, V8 7.8, and Node.js 12.8.1.

New Data Science Masters From Coursera   Monday 28 October

Coursera has announced a fully online Master of Data Science degree from Moscow's Higher School of Economics (HSE), one of Russia’s top universities. Applications are open now for this English-language degree which will begin in February 2020.

Apache Arrow Flight Released   Monday 28 October

Apache has released a beta version of Apache Arrow Flight, an Arrow-native data messaging framework. This first release is designed to optimize transport of the Arrow columnar format over gRPC, Google’s HTTP/2-based general-purpose RPC library and framework.

The Rise and Fall of Websites Since 1996   Sunday 27 October

If you have been in tech for a while you will remember how the web landscape has changed over the last quarter of a century. There was the AOL era, the Yahoo! era, Geocities and so on. Watch this video animation of how the websites you know and cherished ebbed and flowed in popularity and be amazed.

Long Range Wi-Fi With Just Software   Saturday 26 October

Researchers have developed a software-only way of extending the range of standard Wi-Fi. Don't get too excited, the transmission rate is far too slow for Netflix, but it could still be useful for sensor networks.

Amazon's Future Engineer Program In US and UK   Friday 25 October

Amazon has announced that is is now funding computer science courses for more than 2,000 High Schools benefiting more than 100,000 students as part of its Future Engineer Program.

Cyber.dic - Spellchecking For Tech Terms and Acronyms   Friday 25 October

Tired of your word processor red squiggling perfectly acceptable technical terms and acronyms? The cyber.dic spellcheck dictionary puts an end to that! 

Amazon Migrates Away From Oracle DB   Thursday 24 October

Amazon has completed the migration of the databases in its consumer business away from Oracle, turning off the last Oracle database, in the consumer division at least, though some third-party applications are still running on Oracle.

Codecademy and Google Partner In New Go Course   Thursday 24 October

With assistance from Google, Codecademy has added a course on Go, the language developed by Goohttps://www.i-programmer.info/administrator/index.php?option=com_content&sectionid=-1&task=edit&cid[]=13217#gle. Designed to be beginner-friendly it first four modules are now live.