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Google Play’s Indie Games Contest

We recently announced the second annual Google Play Indie Games Contest in Europe, expanding to more countries and bigger prizes. The contest rewards your passion, creativity and innovation, and provides support to help bring your game to more people. Head on over to the post for more details on prizes and how to enter.

OpenFermion

In the category of too cool not to mention is our recent open source release for Quantum Computers. OpenFermion, is the first open source platform for translating problems in chemistry and materials science into quantum circuits that can be executed on existing platforms. A lot more detail can be found on the post.

Video Dataset of Human Actions

To help with further research into human action recognition, we’ve released a new dataset that provides multiple action labels for each person in extended video sequences. The dataset consists of URLs for publicly available videos from YouTube, annotated with a set of 80 atomic actions (such as “walk” or “shake hands”) that are spatial-temporally localized, resulting in over 57 thousand video segments, 96 thousand labeled humans performing actions, and a total of 210 thousand action labels. Examples, charts, and a link to download the data are on the post.

Data Loss Prevention API

Keeping sensitive and regulated data private can be a challenge. The Data Loss Prevention API, can help you quickly find and protect over 50 types of sensitive data such as credit card numbers, names, and national ID numbers. And, there are several new ways to help protect sensitive data with the DLP API, including redaction, masking, and tokenization. Check out the post for all the details.

Google Cloud Launcher

The Google Cloud platform Cloud Launcher marketplace provides production-grade solutions that you can launch and manage in just a few clicks. Click To Deploy solutions further lower operational costs with open source products that are maintained by Google. We recently launched 21 new VM solutions for some of the most popular open-source products including Node.js, Ruby Stack, and MySQL. Get started with the post.

Get your ads ready for iPhone X

With the launch of the iPhone X, you need to plan for new design considerations as the rounded corners, notch, and home screen indicator on the extended screen can obscure content and lead to poor ad experiences for users when ads are placed in these areas. Which is why we’ve put together a guide to help you adapt your ad strategy for iPhone X, which you can get by visiting the post.

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Android Instant Apps SDK 1.1

The Android Instant Apps SDK 1.1 is now available with some highly-requested features such as improved NDK support, configuration APKs for binary size reduction, and a new API to maintain the user’s context when they transition from an instant app to the installed app. More details and links to get started are on the post.

Firebase Test Lab Update

There are new features in Firebase Test Lab for Android including Robo test improvements, Faster test results, and Support for Android Test Orchestrator. More details and links are on the post.

Introducing Dialogflow

API.AI is now known as Dialogflow, and is still your end-to-end platform for building great conversational experiences. Recent launches include an in-line code editor and multi-lingual agent support.

TensorFlow Lattice

We recently released TensorFlow Lattice, a set of prebuilt TensorFlow Estimators that are easy to use, and TensorFlow operators to build your own lattice models. There’s a lot of details here, so I’ll recommend you just head straight over to the post for a detailed explanation with a video and graphs.

Ruby apps with Stackdriver

We recently released beta gems for Stackdriver, our monitoring, logging and diagnostics suite. Now you can use Stackdriver in your Ruby projects wherever they happen to be. The GitHub link is on the post.

App Engine firewall

The App Engine firewall lets you control access to your App Engine app through a set of rules, and is now generally available and ready to secure access to your production applications. More details and screenshots are on the post.

The new AdWords experience

When we first announced the rollout of the new AdWords experience back in March of 2016, our goal was to introduce a faster and more intuitive AdWords that’s focused on helping you reach your business goals. This new AdWords experience is now available to all advertisers. Getting started information is on the post.

Grow with Google scholarships

We’re excited to announce that we’re offering a 50,000 Udacity Scholarship Challenge in the United States through the Grow with Google initiative! To apply for a scholarship, head on over to the post.