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Sue Gee reports
This year the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) is marking 50 years of its most prestigious prize, the A.M. Turing Award. The celebrations will culminate in a conference in June, to be held in San Francisco and also streamed live online, exploring how computing has evolved and where the field is headed.

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Mike James writes: With the launch of Android Wear 2.0, we also have hard facts on the new models. Are they and the new features enough to make things interesting? The most important news for devs is that we have two new watches to work with after months of nothing.

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David Conrad selects three new developments in Computational Imaging
• Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
• Face Aging With Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
• Gender-From-Iris or Gender-From-Mascara?

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Amazon Rekognition Can Now Estimate Your Age
Written by Lucy Black

Amazon is the quiet one when it comes to AI, but it has a number of well-developed AI services that are worth knowing about. To attract your attention, its computer vision system Rekognition will now guess, sorry, estimate, your age. 

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Do you have more pressing things to do than scour the internet for news? If you need to know what's important for the developer, IProgrammer Weekly puts the unmissable bits together in a handy digest. This one covers February 2-8, 2017.

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This round up of interesting posts from external sites has resources for those learning about and working with WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.

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IoT Guru Harry Fairhead reports
Android Things is Google's attempt to get into the IoT world. The first preview wasn't impressive, but now we have Developer Preview 2 and it seems to fix many of the problems. This could be the IoT OS we all use. 

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Kay Ewbank reports:
Google has removed a major restriction from the free version of Data Studio, its dashboarding and reporting tool. Until now, the free version was limited to creating five reports, but you can now create and share as many reports as you want. 

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To meet the job market's ever growing demand for certified Android developers, Google once more in partnership with Udacity, has started offering an "Associate Android Developer Certification", obtainable through just a single exam. Nikos Vaggalis has the details.

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Asus made news a few weeks ago by launching a competitor to the Raspberry Pi - the Asus Tinker Board - but it has now been withdrawn from sale. Harry Fairhead explains why the Tinker Board could be important and why its half-hearted launch and lack of support is holding it back.
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