Latest from Lance Whitney
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Apple to launch new learning hub and developer academy as part of Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
The learning hub will provide a virtual platform and physical campus for people of color, while the Detroit-based developer academy will teach students how to code.
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AWS opens the door to macOS for developers via Mac mini
Instances run on Mac minis will give developers a virtual environment on which to design apps for the Mac, iPhone, and other Apple devices.
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GitHub officially releases GitHub CLI 1.0
Now out of beta and available for everyone, GitHub CLI 1.0 brings GitHub to the terminal where developers can manage their own workflows.
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Apple countersues Epic Games for breach of contract over Fortnite dispute
Apple is seeking damages from Epic over the company's move to evade App Store guidelines by offering its own in-app payment system.
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C++ is now the fastest-growing programming language
Following a roller coaster ride in popularity during the past few years, C++ is now the fastest-growing language of the programming pack, according to TIOBE's September index.
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R programming language continues to grow in popularity
Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.
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Judge rules against Fortnite, but for Unreal Engine, in Epic skirmish with Apple
The court ruling means that Apple's App Store ban against Epic Games' Fortnite can remain in effect but the Unreal Engine development tools cannot be blocked.
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Apple vows to kick Epic Games out of developer program over Fortnite fracas
Such a step could also make life difficult for app developers who use Epic's Unreal Engine for their games.
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Amazon Honeycode aims to help you build apps without writing code
Users can create data-driven mobile and web apps to handle event scheduling, customer relationships, surveys, to-do lists, and inventory tracking, among other tasks.
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Puppet launches public beta of Relay tool to automate DevOps tasks
Relay promises to automate key processes from a range of cloud-based apps and services, including GitHub, Datadog, Jira, Terraform, and Slack.