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.

Highlights: Chrome 57 Beta, inclusive tech hubs, and Firebase Admin SDK updates

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YouTube-BoundingBoxes Dataset

This week we introduced, YouTube Bounding Boxes; a dataset consisting of 5 million bounding boxes spanning 23 object categories, densely labeling segments from two-hundred-ten-thousand YouTube videos. To date, this is the largest manually annotated video dataset containing bounding boxes, which track objects in temporally contiguous frames. To get started with this data to train your own large-scale models, take a look at the post.

Inclusive tech hubs

For the tech industry to thrive and create groundbreaking technology that supports the global ecosystem, it is critical to increase the diversity and inclusion of communities that make the technology. To help with that, Women Techmakers recently partnered with Change Catalyst to develop some resources on how to build inclusive technology hubs. If you’re part of an incubator, community organization, accelerator, or coworking space, please head on over to the post for links to the videos and how-to guides.

Chrome 57 Beta

Chrome 57 Beta is now available with CSS Grid Layout, Improved Add to Home screen, Media Session API, and more. All the details are on the post.

Progressive Web Apps on Android

By the way, for you Progressive Web App enthusiasts, over the next few weeks that add-to-home experience in Chrome beta will integrate into Android in a much deeper way than before. Progressive Web Apps will now appear in the app drawer section of the launcher and in Android Settings, will be able to receive incoming intents from other apps, and more. Details and screenshots are on the post.

Firebase Admin SDK Updates

We recently announced two new Firebase Admin SDK features. The Node.js SDK now contains an Admin API for sending messages via Firebase Cloud Messaging; and the Java SDK can now be initialized from a set of built-in credentials, making it easier to use, especially on Google infrastructure. Details and code are on the post.

Debugging FCM on iOS

Oh, and if you’ve got questions about debugging Firebase Cloud Messaging on iOS, this post is for you. It’s a full debugging guide with a video and code.

SQL Server Enterprise workloads

Pre-configured images for Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise and Windows Server Core on now available on Compute Engine. High-availability and disaster recovery are top of mind for our larger customers, so we’re also announcing support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups and persistent disk snapshots integrated with Volume Shadow Copy Service on Windows Server. To learn more and get started today, head on over to the post.

Windows and .NET Codelabs

We also now have new codelabs for running Windows and .NET apps on Google Cloud Platform, with their own dedicated page. For the link and an overview to help you get started, head on over to the post.