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Waymo has achieved many global industry firsts. Each time we delight our riders and deliver on our mission safely, we are proudest. In January, we accomplished another first: we exceeded one million miles on public roads with no human behind the wheel. To put this into perspective, this equates to 40 trips around the Earth, or over 80 years of driving for the average American. But this number is not a meaningful measure of progress, without context....

Wasm may just be the most important emerging technology that you’ve never heard of. Ok, maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s important! Shorthand for WebAssembly language , Wasm was developed for the web. However, Wasm technology has expanded beyond the web browser. Now organizations are starting to run Wasm on the server side. For example, my company, SingleStore, is using it in our database. Some think Wasm will replace container technology and the ubiquitous JavaScript ....

Matejmo / Getty Images New languages, and improvements on existing ones, are mushrooming throughout the develoment landscape. Mozilla’s Rust , Apple’s Swift , Jetbrains’s Kotlin , and many other languages provide developers with a new range of choices for speed, safety, convenience, portability, and power. Why now? One big reason is new tools for building languages—specifically, compilers. And chief among them is LLVM , an open source project originally developed by Swift language creator Chris Lattner as a research project at the University of Illinois....

WebAssembly cut Figma’s load time by 3x WebAssembly was just released this past March but has already generated a lot of excitement in the web community. WebAssembly was just released this past March but has already generated a lot of excitement in the web community. It’s a new binary format for machine code that was specifically designed with browsers in mind. Because apps compiled to WebAssembly can run as fast as native apps, it has the potential to change the way software is written on the web....

fabio ballasina (CC0) In just four short years, WebAssembly has broken free of its origins as a useful browser-based technology and now powers some of the world’s most complex distributed applications, from streaming platforms like Disney+ to e-commerce powerhouse Shopify. WebAssembly’s journey beyond the browser WebAssembly , or WASM for short, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and first published in 2018. It is, in their words, a “compilation target,” which means developers can bring their own code—typically Rust , C++, or AssemblyScript —and WebAssembly compiles it to bytecode to execute on the web browser at high speed....

Metamorworks / Getty Images Like other hot new areas of enterprise tech, edge computing is a broad architectural concept rather than a specific set of solutions. Primarily, edge computing is applied to low-latency situations where compute power must be close to the action, whether that activity is industrial IoT robots flinging widgets or sensors continuously taking the temperature of vaccines in production. The research firm Frost & Sullivan predicts that by 2022, 90 percent of industrial enterprises will employ edge computing....

Apple yesterday was met with criticism from a group of marketing organizations for its decision to release a new version of Safari that blocks cross-site tracking. Apple, in a statement to 9to5Mac, has defended the move, saying that cross-site tracking has become “so pervasive” that ad tracking companies could easily recreate web browsing history… The company explains that Safari has always been a leader when it comes to user privacy, being the first browser to block third-party cookies by default and more....

The logo for Twitter is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo July 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network’s efforts to attract advertisers ....

GTC Nvidia’s strategy for capitalizing on generative AI hype: glue two H100 PCIe cards together, of course. At GTC this week, Nvidia unveiled a new version of its H100 GPU, dubbed the H100 NVL, which it says is ideal for inferencing large language models like ChatGPT or GPT4. And if it looks like two H100 PCIe cards stuck together, that’s because that’s exactly what it is. (Well, it’s got faster memory too, more on that later....

For several years now, Google has wanted to kill Chrome’s current extension system in favor of a more limited one, creating more restrictions on filtering extensions that block ads and/or work to preserve the user’s privacy. The new extension system, called “Manifest V3,” technically hit the stable channel in January 2021, but Chrome still supports the older, more powerful system, Manifest V2. The first steps toward winding down Manifest V2 were supposed to start January 2023, but as 9to5Google first spotted, Google now says it delayed the mandatory switch to Manifest V3 and won’t even have a new timeline for a V2 shutdown ready until March....