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A novel approach to neural machine translation
Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI
Expanded fastText library now fits on smaller-memory devices
The rise of autonomous data platforms
Programming as a Way of Thinking
A Better Way to Code
Open API and RAML: Better Together
Huawei and Google supercharge Android with a new Raspberry Pi-like board
Stop using CSS in JavaScript for web development
How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2,000,000 concurrent SSL connections
A Trillion Edge Graph on a Single Accelerated Node
Fathom: a framework for understanding web pages
Companies join Linux Foundation to build open IoT edge framework
Universal Web Components
Template Technology Agnosticism
Web Directions Code as a Signal of Quality
Now Image Search can jump-start your search for style
Real-world JavaScript performance
An off-grid social network
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
Building For Mobile: RWD, PWA, AMP Or Instant Articles?
The Blockchain Could Reveal What’s True Today and Tomorrow
Facebook’s Epic Data Blast Is Good for Everyone—Especially Facebook
IBM unveils Blockchain as a Service based on open source Hyperledger Fabric technology
Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder
It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
Linting HTML using CSS
Storing data in a single atom proved possible by IBM researchers
Announcing Google Cloud Video Intelligence API
Thou shalt not depend on me: analysing the use of outdated JavaScript libraries on the web
The Document Outline Dilemma
How blockchain deals with the gaming industry’s troubles
New technique turns random objects into FM radio stations
YouTube TV is Google's live TV service
On EME in HTML5
Touch Devices Should Not Be Judged By Their Size
Open Garden makes its offline mesh networking tech available to third-party developers
Amazon Alexa Has 10,000 Skills, But That Growth Creates Challenges
Making it easier to share annotations on the Web
AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs
GPUs are now available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning
Artificial synapse could be key to brain-like computing
If AI Can Fix Peer Review in Science, AI Can Do Anything
An AI Hedge Fund Created a New Currency to Make Wall Street Work Like Open Source
Using microservices to evolve beyond the data lake
Rethinking Wearable Computing
What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism
New ASLR-busting JavaScript is about to make drive-by exploits much nastier
How Google builds web frameworks
WebAssembly Will Ease Collaboration on Next Generation Video Codecs
Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone
Scientists are making VR displays that match your eyesight
Open source Microsoft Graph Engine takes on Neo4j
Yahoo supercharges TensorFlow with Apache Spark
This will be a Big Year for Wireless Network Innovation
DeepMind is using games to test AI aggression and cooperation
Technical challenges in machine ethics
Next-generation 3D Graphics on the Web
Microsoft's AI group debuts customizable speech-to-text technology
A New Twist On Adding Data Persistence To Containers
An inside look at why Apache Kafka adoption is exploding
Mozilla binds Firefox's fate to the Rust language
Announcing GVFS (Git Virtual File System)
HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
AI’s open source model is closed, inadequate, and outdated
Refactoring 30000 lines of JS with types
What’s up with Firefox, the browser that time forgot?
Google is bringing AI to your Raspberry Pi
WebGL 2 lands in Firefox
Google starts testing Instant Apps in the wild
Smartphones that can analyze DNA are already here
3 weird ways we can remotely control animals and bacteria
Technique enables adaptable 3-D printing
A Look at the Most Used SDKs Across Mobile Apps
Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon
Move Over, Coders—Physicists Will Soon Rule Silicon Valley
A Dao of Product Design
Wearable sensors can tell when you are getting sick, study shows
Google’s Key Transparency project aims to ease a tough task in cryptography
The future is a decentralized internet
Grumpy: Go running Python!
Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—It’s Something Way Weirder
Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users
There's a limit to how small we can make transistors, but the solution is photonic chips
Dotdot. Who's there? Yet another IoT app layer
Scientists turn memory chips into processors to speed up computing tasks
How do you fix the Internet of Things? A better router
Algorithm-Driven Design: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Design
Cache Digests: Solving the Cache Invalidation Problem of HTTP/2 Server Push to Reduce Latency and Bandwidth
Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs
Front-End Developers Are Information Architects Too
RASA NLU gives developers an open source solution for natural language processing
Code Reuse a Peril for Secure Software Development
Vehicle-to-vehicle communications technologies could mitigate the severity of up to 80% of non-impaired crashes
Google's Beacon Platform and the Physical Web
Introducing the WebVR API in Chrome for Android
Google launches first developer preview of Android Things, its new IoT platform
Microsoft to bring Cortana to IoT devices with screens in 2017
Omnity's search engine uses rare word matching to find unexpected results
Synaptics Debuts New Fingerprint Sensors Capable of Scanning Through Display Glass
Netflix Conductor : A microservices orchestrator
Numerai Used 7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin to Build Its Hedge Fund's Brain
The Hardest Part About Microservices: Your Data
Understanding The Green Button API initiative And Why It Matters
Start building Actions on Google
Progressive Web AMPs
Biggest names in VR band together to create industry standards
Bluetooth 5's faster, longer-ranged wireless is here
Open sourcing the Embedding Projector: a tool for visualizing high dimensional data
How I detect fake news
With OpenAI's Universe, reinforcement learning can happen inside any piece of software
First stepping stones to make Node.js VM-neutral announced
How the brain recognizes faces
Has WebRTC Proven That No One Cares About Communications Service Interoperability?
How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
The Emergence of Purpose-Built IoT Networks
Testing with Realistic Networking Conditions
Custom Elements That Work Anywhere by @rob_dodson
Introducing App Maker, a new low-code developer tool for building custom enterprise applications
The FPGA Accelerated Cloud Push Just Got Stronger
The future of front-end development is design
Facebook Messenger launches Instant Games
HP successfully tests its vision of memory-focused computing
Google's DeepMind AI gives robots the ability to dream
Erasing Fear: Artificial Intelligence Could Rid You of Your Phobias
Hype Driven Development by @marekkirejczyk
Building machines that learn and think like people
Why the fuss about serverless? by @swardley
After a Decade of Research, Microsoft Is Ready to Start Building Quantum Computers
Telegram launches Telegraph, a long-form publishing platform
Tor phone is antidote to Google “hostility” over Android, says developer
Recognizing (and Solving) Bad Algorithms
Efficient representation for Web formats
Blockchain technology is coming to the solar panels on your roof
World's First Silicon Photonic Neural Network Unveiled
Forget wearables. In the future, your clothes will connect to the internet
Color Fonts
Coders Think They Can Burst Your Filter Bubble with Tech
The Diminishing Use Case of Hybrid Apps
MoVR Makes Any VR Headset Wireless
Allen Institute for AI Eyes the Future of Scientific Search
Interesting reads

Future technologies

Brain-controlled Robots
uArm Swift and Swift Pro On IndieGoGo 2017
Mood-Predicting Wearables
Smart glasses that automatically focus on whatever you look at
Breakfast - Flip-Disc Display System
reMarkable - The paper tablet
Muscles made of nylon - YouTube
ViBand: High-Fidelity Bio-Acoustic Sensing Using Commodity Smartwatch Accelerometers - YouTube
RadarCat: Radar Categorization for Input & Interaction using Soli
Engineers develop new magnetic ink to print self-healing devices that heal in record time
3D-printed heart-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
proCover: Sensory Augmentation of Prosthetic Limbs Using Smart Textile Covers
Dynamic projection mapping onto deforming non-rigid surface
Holovect is an holographic display that draws objects in the air with light
JOLED: A mid-air display based on electrostatic rotation of levitated Janus objects
Programmable Viscoelastic Materials
Dexmo: An exoskeleton for you to touch the digital world
Wirelessly powered quadrotor
Muzo - Your Personal Zone Creator with Noise Blocking Tech
EQ-Radio: Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals
Bringing new vision to elevator maintenance with Microsoft HoloLens
Reading through closed books
Researchers started to engineer not only the outer shape of objects, but also their internal microstructure.
Future technologies

Fun technology

The Hardlight Suit - Feel VR
Meet Leka, a new robotic companion designed specifically for children with special needs
LegoBoost: Hands-On
SprayPrinter lets you spray paint images from your phone
What is BLOCKS?
Arc by OmniWear Haptics Gives Gamers a 6th Sense
Kastle - pocket sized lo-fi modular synth - Bastl Instruments
Kano: Creative computing for all With simple steps, build and code cameras, speakers, pixels, and sensors.
See Flybrix in action and meet The Wrong Brothers
Augmented Climbing Wall combines projected graphics and proprietary body tracking
Futuretown Totalmotion
Pizza Hut Restaurants introduces the world's first playable DJ pizza box
光を灯す/future with bright lights
The Renegade 3D Printing Pen Prints With recycles plastic waste, replacing costly filaments. - YouTube
Anki worked to combine robotics, AI, and computer vision technologies into a consumer robot.
Pong Project, a real physical version and a homage to the first videogame ever
Walt Disney Records is set to release a new hologram vinyl version of an original motion picture soundtrack
Osmo Coding teaches logic and problem solving skills
BRIXO: When Building Blocks Meets Awesome
Fun technology