Daily Links
Android Pay Launches in Canada
Starting today Android Pay is available in Canada.
Starting today Android Pay is available in Canada.
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.
With the advertisers and privacy advocates unable to agree on basic principles, DNT increasingly offered users no privacy protection worth the name.
For 21 years, King Willem-Alexander has taken to the skies twice a month to ferry passengers around on short-haul services for the Dutch airline KLM.
Manton Reece and Brent Simmons have developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. The spec is at version 1, and it reflects the lessons learned from their years of work reading and publishing feeds.
Google has announced the second Android O device preview. This version is officially a "beta," which means it will automatically go out to anyone enrolled in the Android Beta Program.
Users will be able to open up the Google Assistant app, press the voice button, and speak to the Assistant. At launch, it is only available in the US.
Kotlin is a new programming language built by JetBrains. Like Java, Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and it's already possible to use it and many other JVM languages for Android development. Official Google support will be a huge boost for the nascent language and will presumably make working with Kotlin on Android a lot more natural.
Facebook on Tuesday rolled out new changes to its algorithms that determine what posts users of the social network see in their feeds. The new changes increase the scrutiny of posts linking outside Facebook and reduce the visibility of posts with "clickbait" headlines by pushing them further down users' news feed page.
Today Cultured Code launched the long-anticipated next version of its task management app, Things, for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Things has been one of the go-to task managers on Apple platforms since its initial release in 2008, and for good reason; the team at Cultured Code is known for the thought and care they put into their apps. For much of its life, Things has been a shining example of quality iOS and macOS development.
So design student Jason Yuan decided to redesign Apple Music as a pet project. Excellent write up and nice work.
Opera Reborn has received a rather attractive new lick of paint, with refined tabs and a slightly more lively sidebar. So, instead of tabbing to another browser window to respond to a friend or colleague, the chat window is right there in front of you.
The Thunderbird Council will be managing all operations and infrastructure required to serve over 25 million users and the community surrounding it. The Mozilla Foundation will work with the Council to ensure that operational decisions can be made without substantial barriers.
Today and tomorrow morning, Microsoft will be offering a video livestream from its Build developer conference taking place in Seattle. On Wednesday, May 10, the keynote begins at 8 am Pacific (11 am Eastern). On Thursday, May 11, the keynote will start at 8:30 am Pacific. During the keynotes, we can expect a flurry of announcements around Windows, Cortana, HoloLens and mixed reality, cloud-computing, and Microsoft’s education-related initiatives.
This version of Microsoft’s flagship development tool is based on the cross-platform IDE from Xamarin, which it acquired last March.
Built in Unity by Oskar Stålberg, a short toy that dynamically makes brink buildings in your browser. Love the little randomized details on the balconies, on the walls...!
Fork is a new (still in beta) Git client for MacOS. With its clean, intuitive UI it looks like a promising tool.