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Daily API RoundUp: NASA, Nubentos COVID-19, Croquet, Pingen, Santiment
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Games, and Astronomy. Highlights include an API for monitoring Covid-19 cases, an API for posting mail, and various APIs plus new API versions, from NASA. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
20 hours ago
Relay Medical Announces API for its Medication Management System
Relay Medical Corp., a Canadian provider of MedTech solutions, has announced a new API for the company’s Pharmatrac Medication Management System. The new API provides opportunities for greater integration with Relay’s partners in the telemedicine and medication management markets.
1 day ago
New Change FX Launches Foreign Exchange API Suite
New Change FX (NCFX) has introduced a new suite of Foreign Exchange APIs. The suite includes three categories of APIs: NCFX Data APIs, NCFX Calculation APIs, and NCFX Model APIs. This means that customers are an API call away from NCFX benchmark data, calculations, and models.
1 day ago
New Coronavirus API Tracks Reported Case Data Worldwide
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread worldwide, APIs can help make information about it widely available. The GitHub repository under the name NovelCOVID has released an API that tracks data about the number of current cases of the virus. It is a simple RESTful API with two resources.
1 day ago
APIs to Track Coronavirus COVID-19
Last December, in Wuhan, a city in China's Hubei Province, a new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, was first identified. Since that time, the World Health Organization reports that the virus has spread rapidly, infecting more than 95,000 people across 85 countries.
1 day ago
Apple to Allow Developers to Put Ads in Push Notifications
Apple recently updated its App Store review guidelines and made some eye-opening changes. For example, developers can now use push notifications for advertising or marketing purposes. Though user authorization is required, this is sure to develop into a thorny issue over time.
1 day ago
Apache Software Foundation Introduces V1 of Apache Brooklyn
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of V1 of Apache Brooklyn, an open-source framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing applications. The foundation notes that the release of V1 is indicative of Brooklyn having achieved sufficient maturity and stability.
2 days ago
Microsoft Releases Call Records API Beta for Microsoft Graph
Microsoft has introduced a call records API as part of Microsoft Graph. The API is currently in beta and provides usage and diagnostic information about calls and online meetings. The API provides data for call records, sessions, and segments made through Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business.
2 days ago
Google Broadens Cloud Speech-to-Text API Capabilities
The Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API has been updated to include support for seven new languages, additional enhanced telephony models, broader speech adaptation, and more. The improvements to the API serve to improve the availability of Google’s speech recognition technologies across the globe.
2 days ago
SendBird Enhances Chat Platform With New Features and APIs
SendBird, a provider of chat API services for mobile and web applications, today announced significant platform additions designed to make chat easy and accessible to any tech-driven company, from ride-sharing services to marketplaces to online communities to dating apps.
3 days ago
Khronos Announces ANARI Working Group to Create Analytic Rendering Interface API
The Khronos Group announces that its Analytic Rendering Exploratory Group has received strong industry support and is transitioning to a full Working Group to create an analytic rendering interface API for data visualization. This new API will be called ‘ANARI’.
3 days ago
TranslateMe Releases French to English API
TranslateMe, an AI-driven decentralized translation platform, announced the release of a French to English Translation API. TranslateMe uses a block-chain, decentralized model to execute its translation algorithms. The company's algorithm's learned French to English in four days using the network.
3 days ago
Laravel 7 Now Available
Laravel, the "PHP framework for web artisans," has released version 7. Laravel 7 includes better routing speed, a new HTTP client, CORS support and other enhancements. New features include Laravel Airlock, custom Eloquent casts, Blade component tags, and fluent string operations.
4 days ago
Nubentos Launches COVID-19 Monitoring API
Nubentos, the self-proclaimed API marketplace for health, has released a new API that aims to provide valuable resources for tracking the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new API provides developers access to data collected from global health organizations and local administrations.
4 days ago
Daily API RoundUp: Octoparse, WHO, Splitit, Democracy Club, Peacemakr
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Science, Voting, and Extraction. Highlights include the SciTools Plus API for genetic analysis, and the GHO API from the World Health Organization for health data. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
4 days ago
Amazon Introduces ACS for Devices
Amazon has announced a Preview version of ACS for Devices. ACS for Devices is a streamlined method to deploy Amazon Device SDKs on devices. Amazon already uses ACS internally for devices such as the Echo Dot and Amazon Smart Oven.
5 days ago
10 Most Popular Cryptocurrency APIs
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple are on the cusp of disrupting the financial sector. Developers looking to create applications that mine, store, buy, sell, or trade cryptocurrency need suitable APIs. Here, we highlight 10 popular ones found on ProgrammableWeb.
6 days ago
10 Top APIs for Crime
Developers wishing to create applications about crime fighting can find dozens of useful APIs in the Crime category of ProgrammableWeb. In this article, we highlight ten of the most popular Crime APIs covering crime data including jail information, sex offender information, crime maps, and more.
02-29-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Vote Smart, Wall Street Horizon, PracticePanther, NeuroVault, RemoteMonster
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Voting, Cryptocurrency, and WebRTC. Highlights include the Wall Street Horizon Enchilada for corporate event data, and NeuroVault API for retrieving neuroimaging brain statistical maps. Here's a look at what is new.
02-29-2020
OGC Requests Public Comments on OGC API
OGC API – Features provide the fundamental API building blocks to create, modify, and query ‘features’ on the Web (features are simply the digital representations of objects of interest in the real world). OGC API – Features is comprised of multiple parts, with each part being a separate standard.
02-28-2020