This week on Packt Hub – 11 May 2018

May’s continues on a high note. Plenty of big announcements and major new releases announced in two of the biggest events in the tech world: Google I/O, Microsoft Build and PyCon. Read about them and more in our tech news section.

Here’s what you may have missed in the last 7 days – Tech news, insights and tutorials…

Tech news

Conferences in focus this week

Top 5 Google I/O 2018 conference Day 1 Highlights

What we learned from Qlik Qonnections 2018

Microsoft Build 2018 Day 1: Azure meets Artificial Intelligence

Data news in depth

• Microsoft Open Sources ML.NET, cross-platform machine learning framework
• Linux Foundation launches the Acumos Al Project to make AI accessible
• Nvidia’s Volta Tensor Core GPU hits performance milestones. But is it the best?

Development & programming news in depth

• Google’s Android Things, developer preview 8: First look
• Put your game face on! Unity 2018.1 is now available
• What’s new in Vapor 3, the popular Swift based web framework
• Xamarin Forms 3, the popular cross-platform UI Toolkit, is here!
• Windows 10 IoT Core: What you need to know
• Google Daydream powered Lenovo Mirage solo hits the market
• GCC 8.1 Standards released!
• Google open sources Seurat to bring high precision graphics to Mobile VR

Cloud & networking news in depth

• What to expect from vSphere 6.7
• What’s new in Wireshark 2.6?
• Get DevOps eBooks and videos while supporting charity
• Microsoft’s Azure Container Service (ACS) is now Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (RHEL 7.5) now generally available
• Kali Linux 2018.2 released

Tutorials

Data tutorials

• Getting Started with Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
• Analyzing CloudTrail Logs using Amazon Elasticsearch
• Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) 3.0: Google’s answer to cloud-ready Artificial Intelligence
• Distributed TensorFlow: Working with multiple GPUs and servers
• Implementing 3 Naive Bayes classifiers in scikit-learn

Development & programming tutorials

Web development tutorials

• Getting started with Angular CLI and build your first Angular Component
• How to implement Internationalization and localization in your Node.js app

Programming tutorials

• How to install and configure TypeScript
• NativeScript: What is it, and how to set it up
• Building functional programs with F#
• Applying Single Responsibility principle from SOLID in .NET Core
• Unit Testing in .NET Core with Visual Studio 2017 for better code quality

Cloud & Networking tutorials

• How to secure private cloud using IAM
• How to create your own AWS CloudTrail
• How to secure ElasticCache in AWS

This week’s opinions, analysis, and insights

Data Insights

• Google News’ AI revolution strikes balance between personalization and the bigger picture
• Why Drive.ai is going to struggle to disrupt public transport
• 6 reasons to choose MySQL 8 for designing database solutions
• Are Recurrent Neural Networks capable of warping time?

Development & Programming Insights

• 8 recipes to master Promises in ECMAScript 2018
• Forget C and Java. Learn Kotlin: the next universal programming language