Software Development

The company addressed cultural biases in their algorithms by re-examining their datasets and refining their algorithms. Also this week: Google is offering access to a free class that gives developers an introduction to augmented reality, right as...

Google has upped its commitment to the Linux Foundation from silver to top tier platinum • The move came on the heels of Tencent joining at the same level • Both companies have been working to gain traction in the competitive public cloud markets

Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay $7.5 billion for GitHub earlier in June, but it wasn’t the only interested party. Google was in the running too, according to Diane Greene, head of the company’s cloud arm.

Open source automation developer Puppet has raised $42 million in Series F funding • Funding was led by Cisco and included EDBI, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, and VMware • The money will be spent to expand cloud and container portfolio " through...

Eight years ago when Oracle gained control of MySQL, MariaDB was proclaimed the new king of open source databases. So how did MySQL remain on top? The people who work on it have a surprising answer.