The Developer Show — TL;DR 142

timothyjordan
Google Developers
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2 min readJan 28, 2019

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TL;DR 142 — January 24th, 2019

Android Studio 3.3

A stable release of Android Studio 3.3 is now available and is focused on refinement and quality. Included in the release a Kotlin Update, a new project wizard update, the Navigation Editor, and more. Check out the post for the full list of updates, some screenshots, and a link to download.

Get your Android apps ready for 64-bit

64-bit CPUs deliver faster, richer experiences for your users and we want to help you get ready for them. So we recently provided more detailed information and timelines to make it as easy as possible to transition in 2019. Take a look at the post, for all the details.

Feast: open source feature store for machine learning

GO-JEK and Google Cloud are recently announced the release of Feast, an open source feature store that allows teams to manage, store, and discover features for use in machine learning projects. A link to the GitHub repo is on the post.

Go on Cloud Functions

Support for Go on Cloud Functions is now in beta. The runtime uses the latest version, Go 1.11, which includes new language features like modules for integrating third-party dependencies into your code. Example code and a link to the quickstart are on the post.

NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs now in beta

NVIDIA’s newest data center GPU, the Tesla T4, is now available publicly in beta on the Google Cloud Platform in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo, and the United States. Links to get started are on the post.

Soft Actor-Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

In collaboration with UC Berkeley, we recently released Soft Actor-Critic, a stable and efficient deep reinforcement learning algorithm suitable for real-world robotic skill learning. It’s efficient enough to solve real-world robot tasks in only a handful of hours, and works on a variety of environments with a single set of hyperparameters. Take a look at the post for the research behind Soft Actor-Critic, and also some of our recent experiments.

Google Summer of Code 2019

We are searching for open source projects and organizations to participate in the 15th annual Google Summer of Code, a global program that draws university student developers from around the world to contribute to open source. The deadline to apply is February 6ths at 20:00 UTC.

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timothyjordan
Google Developers

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