Weekly Tech Roundup for July 12 2019
We also included some snippets from our daily knowledge development sessions, just to give you a little extra knowledge. After all, knowledge is never enough. Take your time and digest every one of them. The world is fast evolving and so should your mind.
Tech Snippets
Mining is a key part of the process for maintaining bitcoin’s shared transaction ledger, or blockchain. It takes the Apollo Guidance Computer 10 seconds to compute a single hash value. – FAV
DeepMind – No Human Knowledge Attached
An artificial intelligence (AI) program from Google-owned company DeepMind has reached superhuman level at the strategy game Go — without learning from any human moves. – OC
Huawei set to launch their first 5G smartphone the Mate 20 X on the 26 of July 2019 – CO
Tecno launches phantom9 with AI triple camera. – EH
Microsoft launches React Native for windows.
React Native is a JavaScript framework for writing real, natively rendering mobile applications for iOS and Android.
But now Microsoft is launching a new open-source project for React Native developers who want to target Windows (UWP) – GM
Instagram has introduced a new feature in which terms or phrases commonly associated with bully such as, “You are stupid and ugly and worthless” are identified by the AI as a negative comment, causing a pop-up ask the user to rethink their comment. Another one called ‘Restrict’ is to be added. Restricting a person allows a user to decide who see the person’s comment and prevent the person from seeing their online status or if they have read their direct message. – EE
Node.js: Not On A Need-To-Know Basis
Know about Node.js? It’s history, basis and what-not? Do you need a free e-book to help you out at all times. Then this article is for you. The book is free, by the way. – OA
IBM has technologies like AI, Cloud, Blockchain & the IoT. in this articles, we see how these technologies will change the World, and how this technologies are Transforming Industries like Agriculture and Banking.. – AOT
Knowledge Development Sessions
Building Hobby App With ReAct Native
ReAct Native created by Facebook is used to created several apps and websites. Join us and Gbubemi as she takes us through the requirements to use it to how to use it and building a hobby app with it.
About Weekly Tech Roundup by Bincom Dev Center
You probably already know that Bincom ICT‘s core is Best Use of Technology. This initiative is a compilation of some of the things the people at Bincom Dev Center found interesting during the week in review. Bincom Dev Center is the Training & Development Arm of Bincom ICT. In this weekly publication, You will find various pieces ranging from ideas to trends, to random thoughts. They are here because we found them interesting. We also include some knowledge development pieces and where to get more information about these topic. We aim to publish an edition every Friday at 5:00pm (with exception of Holidays). We are working hard to keep ourselves updated and we think you should too! Time for some Shameless Advertising:
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One more thing, Credits for this edition goes to :
- Contributors: All_of_us @ Bincom Dev Center
- Compiled by: Ejiofor Ekene
- Edited by: Osahon Ohomina
- Senior Responsibility Officer: Bade Adesemowo
