Facebook has announced that it will open-source its AugLy python Library, a Resource that provides for enhanced AI processing. AugLy helps AI researchers better process content the kind of augmentations that are common across the internet. Aiding in the analysis of common and impactful modifications.  The library provides more than 100 data augmentations spanning various modalities that include audio, image, video, and text. These augmentations could include anything from cropping an image, to changing the pitch of a voice recording. By providing access to augmentation data across modal ..read more

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, clients, or Source Code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb’s directories, we offer forms (APIs, Clients, Source Code) for submitting them to our API research team. If there’s a listing in one of our directories that you’d like to claim as the owner, please contact us at editor@programmableweb.com. Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories inclu ..read more

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C), an international standards organization that manages internet protocols, has announced that the Web Audio API is now an official standard. This designation signifies that W3C has vetted the technology in an industry-inclusive manner that is intended to accelerate adoption.  Using the JavaScript Web Audio API allows developers to manipulate audio directly in the web browser. This is useful for creating sound effects, adding audio to games, building music creation applications, and more. W3C outlines additional usage that includes, “auditory feedback ..read more

Fabrick, an Italian open banking ecosystem, has launched two products that are built upon Mastercard finance APIs and are intended to reduce time-to-market for new financial products. The new products, InControl for Business and Identity Check Mobile (IDCM), are provided through Fabrick’s Open Finance Platform. InControl for Business leverages Mastercard’s InControl API and provides programmatic control for systems that manage employee credit and debit cards that were issued by an organization. Although businesses could build this solution on their own, Fabrick intends to simplify the proces ..read more

IQVIA, a health information technology and clinical research solution provider, is currently running its COVID-19 Healthcare App Challenge, a hackathon-style competition for developers that wish to leverage the recently released IQVIA HealthCare Locator SDK. Developers can sign up for the event here and have until June 28th to submit an app that helps consumers locate and engage healthcare providers in their area. The COVID-19 Healthcare App Challenge is open to all mobile and web developers that are interested in using the IQVIA SDK to create an app that helps underserved communities that h ..read more

Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN) services provider, has outlined the latest release of its EdgeWorkers Platform. The edge computing platform gains improvements that are aimed at simplifying code deployment, reducing data latency, and optimizing API traffic. With this release, Akamai has added new Resource tiers that are designated based on CPU and memory requirements. The new Basic Compute and Dynamic Compute tiers are designed to provide developers flexibility based on their application’s needs. The company notes that Dynamic Compute will provide up to 60 million EdgeWorkers events ..read more

When Apple announced in mid-2020 that it would acquire the popular weather app Dark Sky, developers knew that it was only a matter of time before they would need to find a new source for weather data. Soon after, Apple announced that the API would be taken down at the end of 2021. That deprecation date is now being pushed back until the end of 2022. Last week the Dark Sky blog was updated with a short and succinct summary, stating that: “Support for the Dark Sky API service for existing customers will continue until the end of 2022. The iOS app and Dark Sky website will also be available unt ..read more

We are all made of stars. So it’s no wonder astrology is booming these days. Astrology is studying the influence that the placement of the sun, the moon, and the planets has on humans. It’s a complicated endeavor, combining birthdays, zodiac signs, spirituality, star charts, orbits, and other outer world elements. Developers wanting to crack this estimated $2.2 Billion industry will need the proper Astrology APIs to create or enhance applications. What is an Astrology API? An Astrology API is an Application Programming Interface that developers can use to integrate applications with horoscop ..read more

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, clients, or Source Code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb’s directories, we offer forms (APIs, Clients, Source Code) for submitting them to our API research team. If there’s a listing in one of our directories that you’d like to claim as the owner, please contact us at editor@programmableweb.com. Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories includ ..read more

Facebook has announced the release of the Graph API v11.0Track this API and Marketing API v11.0Track this API as well as moving the Platform SDK to v11.0. These updates include breaking changes that will require developers to update their applications to ensure compatibility. Additional updates include adjustments to the Instagram Basic Display API and deprecation of the Facebook Analytics tool. The biggest change to the Graph API is that its data access levels model has been expanded to consumer applications. The model aims to make testing new permissions and features easier by allowing any ..read more