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Google Developers Launchpad Studio

The Google Developers Launchpad Studio provides tailored technical and product support to Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning startups, all in one place. For more on the services provided and a link to apply, head on over to the post.

Google at ACL 2017

The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (or ACL) happened this week in Vancouver. It’s the premier conference in the field of natural language understanding. To learn more about the papers, workshops, and tutorials that Googlers contributed this year, check out the post.

Playbook for developers

The latest Playbook app is now available to help you learn about features, best practices, and strategies to succeed on Google Play. With it, you can discover insights from Google to help you develop and launch your app, engage and grow your audience, and earn more revenue.

Android Testing Support Library 1.0

Version 1.0 of the Android Testing Support Library is now available. It’s a major update to our existing testing APIs and comes with lots of new features, improved performance, stability, and bug fixes. Details, diagrams, and code are on the post.

Android O, Developer Preview 4

Developer Preview 4 of the Android O platform is now available. It’s a good time to wrap up your testing and publish your updates, to give your users a smooth transition to Android O.

DartConf

The official Dart conference this year will be on January 23rd and 24th in Los Angeles. It’ll be even bigger and better than last year, with talks on Dart 2.0, Flutter, Dart Dev Compiler, AngularDart, and much more. For pre-registration, head on over to the post.

So long, and thanks for all the Flash

Adobe recently announced their plans to end support for Flash in late 2020. For Flash developers this will mean transitioning to HTML, as Chrome will increasingly require explicit permission from users to run Flash content until support is removed completely at the end of 2020. For some links to help make the transition, take a look at the post.

Cloud Shell’s code editor now in beta

The web-based code editor in Cloud Shell makes it easier to edit source code within the browser, and it’s now in Beta. To see some screenshots and learn about the latest improvements, check out the post.

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Introducing Facets

Getting the best results out of a machine learning model requires that you truly understand your data. However, ML datasets can contain hundreds of millions of data points, each consisting of hundreds, or even thousands, of features. Working with the PAIR initiative, we’ve released Facets, an open source visualization tool to aid in understanding and analyzing ML datasets. For more details and some very cool screenshots, head on over to the post.

Google at CVPR 2017

The 2017 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition happened in Hawaii this week. But don’t worry if you couldn’t make it, you can learn more about the research we presented from the post.

An Update to Open Images — Now with Bounding-Boxes

Last year we introduced Open Images, a collaborative release of about 9 million images annotated with labels spanning over 6000 object categories, designed to be a useful dataset for machine learning research. We just introduced an update to Open Images, which contains the addition of about 2 million bounding-boxes to the existing dataset, along with several million additional image-level labels. More details and a link to the GitHub are on the post.

A stronger Dart for everyone

Given the benefits of strong mode, and the large number of users already using it, we have decided to make strong mode the standard type system for Dart. This will happen in three phases: strong mode is opt in, strong mode is the default, and strong mode is the only mode. For details on how we are making sure that you have a smooth transition to the new type system, check out the post.

New security protections for G Suite apps

We recently introduced bolder warnings to inform users about newly created web apps and Apps Scripts for GSuite that are pending verification. In the coming months, we will begin expanding the verification process and the new warnings to existing apps as well. For screenshots and tips on getting ready, take a look at the post.

Cloud Spanner in 5 minutes

With Cloud Spanner, you have direct access to a horizontally-scaling, cloud-native infrastructure that provides global transactions. Think: apps that involve payments, inventory, ticketing, or even financial trading. Thanks to the Google Cloud Platform Free Trial that offers 300 dollars in credits for one year and this guide, you can get your feet wet with Cloud Spanner in 5 minutes.

Introducing Transfer Appliance

We recently introduced Transfer Appliance; with a capacity of up to one-petabyte compressed, it helps you migrate your data to Google Cloud Platform orders-of-magnitude faster than over a typical network. Simply fill this rackable high-capacity storage server from your data center and then ship it to us, and we’ll upload your data to Google Cloud Storage. More details are on the post.