In May 2017, the Android team at Google announced first-class support for Kotlin, a statically typed programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Kotlin is built by JetBrains, who (it is worth noting) is also responsible for developing the JetBrains IntelliJ Java IDE, which Google’s own Android Studio is based on.
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From a Small Book to a Game-Changer. Meet the Man Who Turned Kuwaiti Parliament Upside Down
Tomasz Grynkiewicz
He showed faces of politicians in a small book. And then it went viral. We spoke to Abdullah Alkhonaini, a man that rolled a snow ball in Kuwait.
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The word ‘matchmaking’ might spark a cringe. It brings to mind scenes in which two strangers sit awkwardly facing each other, closely watched by their parents and not knowing what to say. Fear not, though, because matchmaking in the 21st century is nothing like it used to be two hundred years ago. Nowadays, it uses AI algorithms and is fully voluntary. The concept has also expanded well beyond romantic matches. You can now get matched (or connected) with employees you seek, caterers you need for your business, or people who could clean your home or fix your tech issues. Take a look at ten companies aiming to revolutionise our personal and business lives with state-of-the-art matchmaking technologies!
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From FinTech to FemTech to InsureTech – and much more besides – the Berlin startup scene is bursting with innovative young companies disrupting industries and designing tools to make our everyday lives easier. Here, we’ve picked eight of the very best of them – all offering life-simplifying apps that will quite literally change the way you work and live for the better. Let’s take a look…
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Food. We need it to survive, right? The way we provide nutrients to our bodies has changed a lot over the centuries, but the Digital Age brought in revolutionary changes which took place at an unprecedented speed. The startups showcased in this blogpost can help reduce the hassle associated with preparing food in many ways: they bring piping hot food straight to our door, deliver pre-portioned ingredients so that we can cook ourselves, or even do away with chewing altogether and supply powdered food. Want to know how the way we eat will change soon? Read about the 10 startups that are ushering in a food revolution!
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Berlin plays host to one of the most exciting startup scenes in all of Europe. In fact, the city is actually the continent’s second largest startup hub after London – and Brexit may have just put pay to that.
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At the end of 2016, I decided that it was time to get back to working as a freelancer and quit my job at a startup. As a freelancer, I came in contact with a higher rotation of projects, which allowed me to broaden my horizons and gain new experience. At that same time, I had the pleasure to meet Patryk, who was working on a very interesting project at the time.
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There are some truly brilliant and original transport and logistics companies operating around the world today – and many of them have sprung out of Europe’s number one tech hub of Berlin. Today, we want to give a big shout-out to some of these companies and show our appreciation of what they’re doing. The ones listed below are truly world-class, innovative, and are pressing forward with some of the most disruptive transport and logistics solutions that you’re likely to find anywhere in the world. Let’s take a look…
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Invoicing is one of the most important and most complex parts of almost every application that allows its users to perform payments. All the numbers, taxes, fields, rules, and equations can give a developer quite a headache. Fortunately, many solutions for invoicing exist and, even more fortunately, many of them are available in Rails. Let’s take a look at some of the ways we can implement invoicing in our Ruby on Rails app.
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If you have a project going or plan to start a new one, there's a high chance that at some point, the data that you have gathered will become the most important asset you have. And if there's lot of data that needs to be constantly updated, then it may easily become a terrible headache for you. How to approach the problem of doing regular data imports? Let us walk you through the process step by step.
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