Highlights: Google I/O 2017, TensorFlow 1.0, and Cloud Spanner

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Google I/O Tickets

If you haven’t heard, Google I/O this year is mid-May, right here in Mountain View, California. You can now apply for tickets and must do so by 5pm PT on February 27th, by going to google.com/io. Winners will be notified by email on the 28th.

TensorFlow 1.0

Last week we hosted the first annual TensorFlow Developer Summit where we announced TensorFlow 1.0. It’s faster, more flexible, and more production-ready than ever. For all the details for this release as well as videos of all the sessions at the Dev Summit, please follow the link.

Debug TensorFlow Models with tfdbg

And while we’re on the topic of Machine Learning, you may want to check out TensorFlow Debugger. It’s a tool that makes debugging of machine learning models in TensorFlow easier. Get started by following the link to the post.

Google Maps Android API

We’re rolling out more custom styling and data object association features in the Google Maps Android API to further help you customize your maps. Head on over to the post to learn about styling and custom data for polylines and polygons.

Maps APIs tutorials have a new look

Also, you may have noticed our Maps API tutorials have a new look with complete, step-by-step tutorials for the most common use cases and code up front. Let us know what you think on the post!

Cloud Spanner

When building cloud applications, database administrators and developers have been forced to choose between traditional databases that guarantee transactional consistency, or NoSQL databases that offer simple, horizontal scaling and data distribution. Cloud Spanner offers both of these critical capabilities in a single, fully managed service. Get started with the post.

GPUs on Google Cloud Platform

Oh, one more thing on Google Cloud Platform. NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs are now in public beta. You can now spin up NVIDIA GPU-based VMs in three GCP regions. For more details and to get started, follow the link to the post.

Highlights: Android Wear 2.0, TensorFlow for Android Things, and Android Things Developer Preview 2

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Android Wear 2.0 is here!

We recently released the final SDK for Android Wear 2.0. This release has added support for new hardware features, Material Design for Android Wear, Watch Face Complications, and more.

Android Things Developer Preview 2

We also released Developer Preview 2 for Android Things bringing new features and bug fixes to the platform. A summary of changes and links to code are on the post…

TensorFlow for Android Things

…where you’ll also find a really cool sample that shows how to use TensorFlow on Android Things devices using an early-access TensorFlow inference library prebuilt for ARM and x86. It demonstrates accessing the camera, performing object recognition and image classification, and speaking out the results using text-to-speech.

Announcing TensorFlow Fold

TensorFlow Fold makes it easy to implement deep-learning models that operate over data of varying size and structure. It also brings the benefits of batching to such models, resulting in a speedup of more than 10x on CPU, and more than 100x on GPU, over alternative implementations. Links to the paper and github, are on the post.

Google Cloud Endpoints now GA

Google Cloud Endpoints is a fast, scalable API gateway and is now generally available. It features a server-local proxy and is built on the same services that Google uses to power its own APIs. More details and links to get started are on the post.