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May 18th, 2021
The GPU for the Web Working Group has published the following two First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU: WebGPU exposes an API for performing operations, such as rendering and computation, on a Graphics Processing Unit. WebGPU Shading Language: WebGPU Shader Language (WGSL) is the shader language for WebGPU. That is, an application using the WebGPU API…
May 18th, 2021
The Web of Things Interest Group has published a First Public Interest Group Note of Web of Things (WoT): Use Cases and Requirements. This document is created to collect new IoT use cases from various domains that have been contributed by various stakeholders. These serve as a baseline for identifying requirements for the standardization work…
May 17th, 2021
At a time when the need for access to trustworthy information is critical, we are announcing a slew of investments to support India’s large and diverse news industry. These investments will help people find quality journalism, contribute to the sustainability of news organizations, and expand our programs under the Google News Initiative — enabling newsrooms…
May 14th, 2021
Manuel Matuzović goes line-by-line through a boilerplate HTML document. I like it. It’s a good reference and has a lot of the same type of stuff I tend to put in the main HTML template. It makes me think about how opinionated this kind of thing can be. Dang near every line! Not the DOCTYPE,…
May 14th, 2021
The ability to recruit and retain the world’s best talent is crucial to America’s economic success — and it has been from the beginning. Whether by founding companies or developing life-saving vaccines, immigrants have pioneered many of the breakthroughs that fuel our economy and make the U.S. a technological leader — including sparking 30% of all…
May 13th, 2021
Chen Hui Jing covers some recent movement in DevTools: Firefox’s grid inspector was pretty full-featured from the get-to and released together with CSS grid in Firefox 52. It was constantly improved upon since. Chrome added a basic grid inspector tool in Chrome 62 that let developers highlight elements using grid layout, but more robust features were only added in…
May 13th, 2021
Editor’s note: The Google News Initiative is supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships at three of the industry’s top executive education programs: the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University, the Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter Institute and the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at CUNY. This post is authored by the director…
May 13th, 2021
For millions of football fans across the U.K. and around the world, the return of live matches in the English Premier League was a long-awaited milestone in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Enter Project Restart: the nickname given to the Premier League’s attempts to resume the season while ensuring the safety of players and…