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For nearly two decades, TNW Conference has been a launchpad for the next big things in tech. The likes of Slack, Wise, Bolt, and Trello all made their mark on our stage before becoming global brands. Visionary leaders from Google, Meta, and Reddit have joined them to share the strategies behind their success, while star speakers Edward Snowden, will.i.am, and Lila Ibrahim have explored the frontiers of innovation.  On June 19-20, we will return to the iconic NDSM venue in Amsterdam with a renewed focus on our founding mission: elevating the startups and scaleups that will change the world. Today,… This story continues at The Next Web

Edge Impulse, a TNW community member that produces an AI platform for developers, has been acquired by American chip giant Qualcomm for an undisclosed sum.  Qualcomm said it had bought Edge Impulse to boost its machine learning software capabilities, particularly for its Dragonwing line of AI-powered chips.  Nakul Duggal, Qualcomm’s head of IoT, said the acquisition would strengthen his firm’s “leadership in AI” and bolster “critical sectors such as retail, security, energy and utilities, supply chain management, and asset management.” Under the deal, Edge Impulse will integrate its operations with Qualcomm’s, but maintain its own offices, employees, and website.     “Our team… This story continues at The Next Web

Test your Drupal website with Cypress cobadger Wed, 04/26/2023 – 03:00 If you don’t include tests in your Drupal development, chances are it’s because you think it adds complexity and expense without benefit. Cypress is an open source tool with many benefits: Reliably tests anything that runs in a web browser Works on any web platform (it’s great for testing projects using front-end technologies like React) Highly extensible Increasingly popular Easy to learn and implement Protects against regression as your projects become more complex Can make your development process more efficient This article covers three topics to help you start testing your Drupal project using Cypress: Installing Cypress Writing and running basic tests using Cypress Customizing Cypress for Drupal Install Cypress For the purposes of this tutorial I’m assuming that you have built a local dev environment for your Drupal project using the `drupal/recommended-project` project. Although details on creating such a project are outside of the scope of this piece, I recommend Getting Started with Lando and Drupal 9. Your project has at least this basic structure: vendor/ web/ .editorconfig .gitattributes composer.json composer.lock The cypress.io site has complete installation instructions for various environments. For this article, I installed Cypress using npm. Initialize your project using the command npm init. Answer the questions that Node.js asks you, and then you will have a package.json file that looks something like this: { “name”: “cypress”, “version”: “1.0.0”, “description”: “Installs Cypress in a test project.”, “main”: “index.js”, “scripts”: { “test”: “echo “Error: no test specified” && exit 1″ }, “author”: “”, “license”: “ISC” } Install Cypress in your project: $ npm install cypress –save-dev Run Cypress for the first time: $ npx cypress open Because you haven’t added a config or any scaffolding files to Cypress, the Cypress app displays the welcome screen to help you configure the project. To configure your project for E2E (end-to-end) testing, click the Not Configured button for E2E Testing. Cypress adds some files to

What’s new in GNOME 44? Jim Hall Tue, 04/25/2023 – 03:00 I use GNOME as my primary desktop environment on my Linux PC at home. GNOME gives me an easy-to-use graphical desktop that provides the flexibility I need yet doesn’t get in my way when I focus on my work. GNOME recently released GNOME 44 with a bunch of new features. I reached out to the GNOME team to ask about the latest version and what was in it. Here’s what team members Caroline Henriksen (brand manager), Matthias Clasen (GNOME developer and release team member), and Allan Day (design team) had to share. New GNOME features Jim Hall: What are some of the new and updated features in GNOME 44 that you’re most excited about? GNOME Team: I am very excited to see how fresh and modern our user interfaces look. Not just in the core apps like Files (the file manager, Nautilus) but also in our Settings, which have seen a lot of work in the last cycle—many Settings panels have been improved. If you have a chance, you should try the new Mouse & Touchpad panel and enjoy the animated illustrations. There’s a lot to like in GNOME 44. For example, I think that a lot of people are going to be really happy about the new grid view in the file chooser, as well as being able to easily connect devices from the new Bluetooth menu in the quick settings. Jim: The release notes mention GNOME Circle and that a few new apps have been added. What is GNOME Circle? Team: GNOME Circle is a collection of fantastic apps that use the GNOME platform. It’s GNOME’s way of promoting the best apps that use our technologies and supporting app developers. To be included in GNOME Circle, an app has to meet a set of requirements. Once it does, the developers get things like extra publicity and GNOME Foundation membership. That, in turn