We are continuing to expand the media3-ui-compose-material3 module to help you build Compose UIs for playback. We’ve added a new Player Composable that combines a ContentFrame with customizable playback controls, giving you an out-of-the-box player widget with a modern UI. This release also adds a ProgressSlider Composable for displaying player progress and […]
Samsung & TSMC Develop 8nm & 7nm Automotive-Grade Nodes
As vehicles are getting ‘smarter’ and gaining autopilot capabilities, it is easy to predict that the demand for higher-performing and more complex automotive SoCs will be growing rapidly in the coming years. To produce those SoCs, specialized manufacturing lines will be needed, which is why the two leading contract chip […]
AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch
AWS and Facebook today announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. While TorchServe, a model-serving framework for PyTorch, will make it easier for developers to put their models into production, TorchElastic will help developers easily build fault-tolerant training jobs on […]
Apple is hiring strategists to campaign for top Hollywood awards, like the Oscars and Emmys
The extent of Apple’s video efforts will be know on March 25, with a new report claims the Cupertino company isn’t leaving anything to chances: the firm’s allegedly hired specialists to woo Hollywood insiders to help it win prestigious awards like the Oscars and Emmys. Anousha Sakoui and Mark Gurman, […]
Ad Data Points to Apple’s ‘Slow Roll’ Promotion of Apple TV+
Following Friday’s launch of Apple TV+, new data on Apple’s television and online advertising spend reveals that the company is taking a “slow-roll” approach in promoting the new streaming service (via The New York Times). According to data gathered by iSpot.TV, Apple spent $14.9 million on television commercials Apple TV+ […]
Monzo boosts performance metrics by up to 35% with a simple R8 update
Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer Monzo is a UK digital bank with 15 million customers and growing. As the app scaled, the engineering team identified app startup time as a critical area for improvement but worried it would require significant changes to their codebase. By fully enabling […]







