Katherine Harrison-Adcock
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Weekly API Roundup: Sports & Fitness, Finance, Crypto, AI
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 → Read More
Weekly API Roundup: Hadith Free, UK Vehicle Data, Sun Position Detector
Four APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Database, Solar, and Religion. Highlights include an API for translation of religious text, solar tracking with AI, and an API for real-time vehicle registration lookup. Here's a look at what's new. → Read More
CyberLink Launches New Facial Recognition APIs via FaceMe Platform
Global software and AI facial recognition technology company CyberLink recently announced the launch of a new platform created to provide clients with a collection of facial recognition APIs applicable to a variety of business use cases. → Read More
India Reported to be Developing API for Boarding Pass Vaccination Status
The Times of India is reporting that the Indian government is working internally with the Ministry of Aviation to develop an API to electronically confirm vaccination status during flight check-in. While this API has not yet been confirmed, its creation would fall in line with previous efforts. → Read More
HIPAA Protections Were Eroded Due to COVID; What Role Did APIs Play?
In March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, used discretionary authority to suspend certain provisions of HIPAA law designed to protect the privacy of US citizens’ personal health information (PHI). → Read More
Particle Health Launches Beta API Program to Enable Instant Access to Patient Records
Particle Health has opened limited access to its beta API program. This program queries the company’s national healthcare data network in order to access a patient’s medical records and provide partners with secure access to full patient histories. → Read More
December Update: COVID-19 Exposure Apps In the USA
This article covers state-sponsored Covid19 exposure and contact-tracing apps launched in the US during November/December 2020. At a time when support from the federal government was needed, individual states were forced to come up with and pay for their own solutions to a global problem. → Read More
Adopting An API-Led Approach At Pitney Bowes
In an article for CIO, Pitney Bowes Chief Innovation Officer James Fairweather discussed creating a pattern of development while turning company-wide attention to the adoption of a critical technology, enabling the century-old company to reshape the way it works and empowering client success. → Read More
October Update: State-Sponsored Coronavirus Apps
As of today, there are fourteen contact tracing apps in the continental United States. The most recent additions are in North Carolina, New York, and New Jersey. All are interactive with states with contact tracing apps built around the Apple-Google API. → Read More
August Update: Exposure Notification Apps in the US
Exposure notification apps are making headway, now with seven states announcing that they have launched pilot versions or fully active apps dedicated to contact tracing and/or exposure notification. Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming have gone live. → Read More
COVID-19 Trackers Launch in Virginia and Alabama
The first US contact tracing app based on the collaborative Apple-Google API has launched in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The first pilot-test using the Apple-Google API has launched in the state of Alabama, with University of Alabama campuses as the test-case ground zero. → Read More
How Municipalities Across the United States Are Approaching Contact Tracing
Developers, companies, and governments are working collaboratively and individually to bring out their best efforts at contact tracking and tracing. This article takes a closer look at tracing tools and apps used in the United States. → Read More
NSW Health Pathology Aided by APIs in Response to COVID-19
Over the past four years, NSW Health Pathology invested heavily in API-led connectivity. With coverage from Justin Hendry, writing for IT.com, we learn how this investment has paved the way for them to pivot handily to building world class public-facing services during the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Discussing the Fundamentals of JSON
This article outlines the definition and essential purpose of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). To set up the definition of JSON, a few key terms will be clarified, along with the coding standard used to give a uniform appearance, and a specific set of use guidelines and best practices. → Read More
5 Tips to Build Developer-Friendly API Products
The best APIs are built with design ground rules rooted in common sense. A uniting governance based on rigorous standards, knowing your target developers well, thoughtful nomenclature, and giving the support assets as much attention as the main product. → Read More
Five Major Vulnerabilities in GraphQL
An overview defining GraphQL and outlining five common vulnerabilities found in GraphQL developing: inconsistent authorization checks, vulnerable REST proxies, flimsy validation of custom skalars, inappropriate rate-limiting, and failure to shield public information. → Read More
EU Countries Likely to Adopt the Covid19 “Contact Tracing API” (Apple + Google Collab)
With two tracing APIs preparing to be on offer to European officials, Ben Lovejoy offers an analysis on the virtues of each, outlining why he believes that the EU will adopt what he feels is the stronger option: the Contact Tracing API currently under collaborative development from Apple and Google. → Read More
HACKADAY Presents a Tutorial: Pulling Granular COVID-19 Data
Over at HACKADAY, writer Tom Nardi has come up with a presentation of the top five resources (including his own) for pulling raw COVID-19 data, along with mini-tutorials for the best ways to extract the data. He gives an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each tool. → Read More
Nordic APIs Presents a Case Study of Maersk APIs
At the 2019 Nordic APIs Dave Halliday presented a talk about "How Maersk are Delivering Connected Digital Experiences With APIs." On the Nordic APIs blog, writer Thomas Bush breaks down the talk in a post which gives an overview of perceived past mistakes, and strategies for the future. → Read More
Akamai Security Reports on Surges in API Credential-Stuffing
Threatpost writer Lindsey O’Donnell interviewed Akamai security researcher Steve Regan about what Akamai is discovering during their research into creative cyber attacks, diving into how criminals are keeping up with and course-correcting for the newest layered security developments. → Read More