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What’s new in Google’s V8 JavaScript engine Version 7

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JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, on the genesis of the popular programming language | True Technologist Ep 1

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The future of load testing is BLU

A new 'lean' approach to load testing gives agile developers and testers fast feedback on performance—without all the hassles traditionally associated with performance testing.

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Firefox speeds up WebAssembly through streaming compilation

Firefox 58 begins compiling WebAssembly code as it downloads, and taps multiple threads for both compiling and optimization

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Uber hack, Google tracks, AWS packs (in China) ... and Firefox is back

Our tech panel looks at how Uber (secretly) handled last year's hack and the controversy around Google's decision to track Android users' locations. Then it's time to discuss why AWS is selling off hardware in China and what Mozilla...

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Mozilla squashes Firebug in favor of native Firefox debugger

The Firefox browser’s Firefox Developer Tools is how developers should test web applications and HTML issues instead

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Progressive web apps in Microsoft Edge: What you need to know

Microsoft’s Windows 10 browser is about to run apps offline. Here’s how to take advantage of its new features in your web apps

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Machine learning comes to your browser via JavaScript

A new JavaScript library runs Google's TensorFlow right in the browser with GPU acceleration—a novel way to bring machine learning to the masses

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Adobe: Flash Player to reach end-of-life in 2020

Adobe's proprietary rich Internet plug-in technology is finally stepping aside for HTML5 and other web standards

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