Microsoft is recalibrating Universal Windows Platform tooling with an eye toward code reuse and application portability Microsoft has faced issues in gaining acceptance of its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for developing Windows apps to run on multiple form factors. But the company nonetheless is forging on with tooling advancements for UWP. With UWP Community Toolkit… Read More Microsoft’s UWP toolkit shows signs of life

    Royal Philips NV plans to roll out software designed to help doctors improve the diagnoses of diseases such as cancer as it challenges General Electric Co. and Siemens AG for a bigger share of the lucrative health-care solutions market. The apps will improve interpretation of data such as a sequence of scans, with… Read More Philips to Start Selling Smart Software for Doctors to Rival GE

PerformanceBridge, a new suite of performance management software and services to assist radiology departments in enhancing productivity, improving the patient experience and delivering better value-based care. PerformanceBridge supports radiology department administrators in prioritizing operational improvements in asset management, equipment uptime and utilization, peer-to-peer collaboration, accreditation compliance and practice management. Designed as a secure, cloud-based or… Read More Philips introduces PerformanceBridge suite of operational performance improvement software and services for radiology departments

The PhotoScan app for iPhones and Android phones will use the phone’s camera to capture an old photo in four sections and stitch them together, much like a panorama shot. Google says this approach helps eliminate glare that can mar attempts to digitize a print by simply photographing the whole photo. The app will make… Read More Google releases app to digitize boxes of old photo prints

Long queues snaking outside banks have become an ubiquitous sight in India two weeks after the government’s shock decision to withdraw the two highest denomination notes from circulation. But a New Delhi-based startup has a solution for those willing to pay someone to stand in line: BookMyChotu—a play on the Hindi word “chotu” meaning “little… Read More Long bank queues in India? There’s an app for that!

The voluntary guidelines unveiled Wednesday are designed to reduce crashes caused by drivers distracted by phones. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also wants automakers to make infotainment systems easy to pair with smartphones. Drivers could still make calls but the phones and automaker systems would lock out the ability to enter text. Internet browsing,… Read More Gov’t wants phone makers to lock out most apps for drivers

Slower compilation times have hindered the language since 2015, when the language’s compiler was translated from C to Go. Google’s open source Go language will improve compilation time with the planned version 1.8 upgrade. Detailing planned tool chain improvements to Go, contributor Dave Cheney said the 1.8 release, due in February, is projected to improve… Read More Google’s Go language takes on compilation speed

The Review Apps feature lets developers create temporary apps for reviewing merge requests before moving to production. GitLab is providing “ephemeral app environments” to enhance application testing on its code repository platform with its Reviews Apps capability being unveiled Tuesday. Review Apps lets developers create temporary applications to see how existing code works and to… Read More GitLab looks to transform app testing

The Open Source Hardware Association certification could help buyers hack into and copy products Four years ago, Alicia Gibb was trying to unite a fragmented open-source hardware community to join together to create innovative products. So was born the Open Source Hardware Association, which Gibb hoped would foster a community of hardware “hackers” sharing, tweaking,… Read More Open-source hardware makers unite to start certifying products

DeepMind Health, the healthcare arm of the artificial intelligence business owned by Google, has signed a deal with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust to provide an app called Streams. The deal, which establishes a five-year partnership between the organisations, builds on DeepMind Health’s pilot project with the Trust to build Streams, which DeepMind… Read More Google DeepMind inks 5-year agreement with NHS for ‘Streams’ app