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.

Highlights: Android Nougat 7.1.2 Sneak Peek, Indonesia Games Contest, and open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

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Android Nougat 7.1.2

The next maintenance release for Android Nougat is just around the corner and the public beta is now available to eligible devices that have enrolled in the Android Beta Program. For more info and to sign up, head on over to the post.

Engaging users during major events

The Guardian was able to substantially increase user engagement with its mobile app during the recent US election by using new notifications functionality in Android 7.0 Nougat. The engagement results were impressive, including a 103% increase in daily installs during election week. Check out how they did it on the post.

Indonesia Games Contest

In our continuous quest to discover, nurture growth, and showcase the best games from Indonesia, we are happy to announce the Indonesia Games Contest. Submit your game by March 19th of this year. Details are on the post.

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

We are open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise, the enterprise product that allows developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. Google Earth Enterprise Fusion, Server, and Portable Server source code will be published on GitHub under the Apache2 license in March.

Facilitating the discovery of public datasets

We’ve recently published new guidelines to help data providers describe their datasets in a structured way, enabling Google and others to link this structured metadata with information describing locations, scientific publications, or even Knowledge Graph, facilitating data discovery for others. We hope that this metadata will help us improve the discovery and reuse of public datasets on the Web for everybody. If you’re a data provider, data consumer, or developer, please check out this post.

Customize your Firebase Test Lab Robo tests

The Firebase Test Lab team is kicking off 2017 with some new features that make it easier for you to customize the testing of your Android apps. Check out the post for details on enhancements that are designed to save you time and money, so you can get the most out of Test Lab for your daily testing routine.

Eclipse plugin for App Engine

We recently launched the beta version of Cloud Tools for Eclipse, a plugin that extends Eclipse to Google Cloud Platform. Based on Google Cloud SDK, the initial feature set targets App Engine standard environment, including support for creating applications, running and debugging them inside the IDE with the Eclipse Web Tools Platform tooling, and deploying them to production. To get started, check out the post