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Google Assistant

We recently announced a set of new features to make it easier for users to find, interact, and re-engage with your app on Google Assistant. Details are on the post.

Android Things Contest Winners

Back in September, we worked with Hackster.io to encourage y’all to build smart connected devices using Android Things and post your projects to the Developer Challenge for Android Things. The winners are in and you can check them out on this post.

Announcing TensorFlow Lite

The developer preview of TensorFlow Lite is now available. It’s TensorFlow’s lightweight solution for mobile and embedded devices that enables low-latency inference of on-device machine learning models. TensorFlow Lite is lightweight, cross-platform, and fast. Take a look at the post for everything you need to get started.

Conversational Modeling with TensorFlow Lite

As part of TensorFlow Lite, we also released an on-device conversational model and a demo app that provides an example of a natural language application powered by TensorFlow Lite. We hope this will make it easier for you to build new machine intelligence features powered by on-device inference.

SLING: A Natural Language Frame Semantic Parser

SLING is an experimental system for parsing natural language text directly into a representation of its meaning as a semantic frame graph. The output frame graph directly captures the semantic annotations of interest to the user, while avoiding the pitfalls of pipelined systems by not running any intermediate stages.

Dialogflow Enterprise Edition

Dialogflow Enterprise Edition is now available in beta. It expands on all the benefits of Dialogflow, offering greater flexibility and support to meet the needs of large-scale businesses. We also announced speech integration within Dialogflow, enabling you to build rich voice-based applications. Check out the post for more details.

Multi-Region support in Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner Multi-Region configurations are now generally available. With this release, we’ve extended Cloud Spanner’s transactions and synchronous replication across regions and continents. That means no matter where your users may be, apps backed by Cloud Spanner can read and write up-to-date data globally and do so with minimal latency for end users.

Introducing container-diff

Container-diff is a tool for quickly comparing container images and it’s now open source. The GitHub link is on the post.

Firebase Cloud Messaging

Firebase Cloud Messaging is a cross-platform messaging solution that reliably delivers messages at no cost. It sends over 400 billion messages per day. We recently announced of a new RESTful API, the Firebase Cloud Messaging HTTP v1 API, that makes it safer and easier to send messages to your cross-platform applications. Examples are on the post.

Google Developers Launchpad Africa

We’re excited to announce Google Developers Launchpad Africa, our new hands-on comprehensive mentorship program tailored exclusively to startups based in Africa. Applications are due on December 11, 9am Pacific Time and the first class will start in early 2018.

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Hello I’m Timothy Jordan, and this is your update about the coolest developer news from Google in the last week.

Architecture Components 1.0 Stable

The Room and Lifecycle Architecture Components libraries have reached 1.0 stable, which means they are ready for production apps and libraries. These foundational components make it possible to write modular apps with less boilerplate code, so you can focus on innovating instead of reinventing the wheel. You can get started with the post.

Play Games Services APIs

In 11.6.0 of the Google Play Services SDK, we’re introducing a major change in the APIs meant to make them easier to use, thread-safe, and more memory efficient. We’ve deprecated the GoogleApiClient class, and introduced a decoupled collection of feature-specific API clients. All the details and sample code are on the post.

TensorFlow r1.4

TensorFlow 1.4 is now available. Included in the changes, both Keras and Datasets have graduated to core packages. For more details on these and other updates, check out the post.

Tangent: Source-to-Source Debuggable Derivatives

Tangent is a new, free, and open-source Python library for automatic differentiation. And it’s source-to-source system, consuming a Python function f and emitting a new Python function that computes the gradient of f. This allows much better user visibility into gradient computations, as well as easy user-level editing and debugging of gradients.

DNSSEC now in Cloud DNS

We’re excited to announce that we’re adding Domain Name System Security Extensions support to our fully managed Google Cloud DNS service. Now you and your users can take advantage of the protection provided by DNSSEC without having to maintain it once it’s set up. Screenshots are on the post.

Google Cloud Dataprep

Google Cloud Dataprep, which has been available to the public in a beta release for just a month, had its first public update on Thursday. Included is a fresh UI, job scheduling, and richer sampling options. Details for each are on the post.