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TensorRT and TensorFlow 1.7

NVIDIA® TensorRT is a library that optimizes deep learning models for inference and creates a runtime for deployment on GPUs in production environments. TensorRT and TensorFlow are integrated with TensorFlow 1.7. In our tests, we found that ResNet-50 performed 8 time faster under 7 milliseconds latency with the TensorFlow-TensorRT integration using NVIDIA Volta Tensor Cores as compared with running TensorFlow only. For graphs and code, check out the post.

Android Studio 3.1

Android Studio 3.1 is now available to download in the stable release channel. The focus areas for this release are around product quality and app development productivity. In addition to many underlying quality changes, we added several new features into Android Studio 3.1 that you should take a look at integrating into your development flow including a C++ performance profiler, better code editor support to aid in your SQL table and query creation statements, and better lint support for your Kotlin code. Details and screenshots are on the post.

Wear OS by Google

The Wear OS developer preview is now available, bringing Android P platform features to wearables. Included are the dark UI system theme and restriction related to non-SDK methods and fields. Install instructions are on the post.

Stackdriver APM and Stackdriver Profiler

Stackdriver Profiler is now available. It lets you profile and explore how your code actually executes in production, to optimize performance and reduce cost of computation. Head on over to the post to learn more about the the Stackdriver Application Performance Management toolkit including integrations between Stackdriver Debugger and GitHub Enterprise and GitLab.

Cloud Text-to-Speech

You can use Cloud Text-to-Speech for high-quality text-to-speech synthesis that produces natural sounding speech. It lets you choose from 32 different voices from 12 languages and variants, correctly pronounces complex text such as names, dates, times and addresses, *and* allows you to customize pitch, speaking rate, and volume gain. Links to get started are on the post.

Kubernetes Engine Private Clusters

Kubernetes Engine Private Clusters is now available in beta. With it, you can deploy clusters privately as part of the Google Virtual Private Cloud. Your cluster’s nodes can then only be accessed from within the trusted VPC. Getting started instructions are on the post.

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Web and android scholarship in Africa

In partnership with Udacity and Andela, we’re offering *15,000* scholarships to aspiring and professional developers across Africa. If you’re interested and want to learn more, take a look at the post and follow the links to the application.

GTXiLib

Google believes everyone should be able to access and enjoy the web. Which is why we’ve open sourced GTXiLib, an accessibility test automation framework for iOS, under the Apache license. Head on over to the post for the GitHub link.

MongoDB Atlas availability on GCP

We recently worked with MongoDB to expand the availability of *MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud Platform*, making it available across most GCP regions as well as on Cloud Launcher. Dive into how it works with the post.

Chrome 66 Beta

Chrome 66 Beta is here with the CSS Typed Object Model, the new Asynchronous Clipboard API, the AudioWorklet object and more. A full description, and code, is available on the post.

Protect and control your GCP services and data

We made more than 20 security announcements across the Google Cloud portfolio at last week’s CEO Security Forum in New York; covering VPC Service Controls, Cloud Security Command Center, Access Transparency, and more. For a lot of in depth details and a bunch of links, head on over to the post.

Firebase Realtime Database supports Google Stackdriver Alerts

Back in December, we announced that the Firebase Realtime Database had integrated with Google Stackdriver to let you create dashboards and graphs of powerful new metrics. We’ve now made all this data actionable through Google Stackdriver Alerts. Find out how to set and customize the alerts from the post.

Firebase for Game Developers

We’ve been working hard to make Firebase more valuable for all you game developers. Last week we stopped by the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to share some announcements including Google Play Games Services support in Firebase Auth, Desktop support for C++ and Unity development, and more. More details and a link to the documentation is on the post.