Why Amazon workers sometimes listen in on users’ conversations with Alexa, and what it tells us about the technology that powers “smart” devices | Continue reading
Both the Ubuntu Linux desktop and server come with significant updates. | Continue reading
Typically, when one considers writing a video game, the platform is among the first decisions to be made. The PC can be an easy one to start with, and mobile development is fairly accessible too. O… | Continue reading
Disco Dingo is the name of the new major release. What we know so far is that the new version uses the Linux 5.0 Kernel. It also upgrades its toolchain to introduce new versions like libc 2.29, OpenJDK 11, boost 1.67, rustc 1.31, and updated GCC 8.3, optional GCC 9, Python 3.7.3 … | Continue reading
Understanding React Native Hooks. Building a small demo app with Hooks using Crowdbotics. Introducing flexbox — React Native vs. on the… | Continue reading
Deep learning has demonstrated tremendous success in variety of applicationdomains in the past few years. This new field of machine learning has beengrowing rapidly and applied in most of the... | Continue reading
Chubb Ltd.’s Evan Greenberg is urging lawmakers to address the rising threat of climate change after $160 billion in global economic losses from a practically “biblical” year of catastrophes. | Continue reading
Keeping master green at scale Ananthanarayanan et al., EuroSys’19 This paper provides a fascinating look at a key part of Uber’s software delivery machine. With a monorepo, and many thousands… | Continue reading
Siamo un network informativo che dal 1888 ascolta, aggiorna e sostiene i professionisti dell'editoria. | Continue reading
Today we joined Steelcase in New York to share our vision for empowering teams and unveiled new details about the Surface Hub 2S product line, introducing the new 85-inch screen size and bringing unprecedented, battery-enabled mobility to the 50-inch collaboration device. | Continue reading
In a recent happy hour with an ex-colleague, we chatted about our decade-long careers as Product Managers (PM), how the PM role varied from one company to another and what it meant to be successful as a PM. That last question lingered in my mind for a while and I am blogging abou … | Continue reading
Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, joins Into the Ether to discuss the past, present and future of Ethereum. We discuss a wide range of topics including his current leadership role with Ethereum, what he envisioned Ethereum would look like 4 years in, Ethereum's gove … | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics will pull the plug on its ARTIK project in four years after starting to develop the internet of things (IoT) platform.The tech giant recently told employees of the IoT Commercialization Team of the System LSI Department of the Device Solution (DS) Division tha … | Continue reading
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While Rockland County officials said they aren't going to go around arresting people with measles, they insist it's about keeping the public safe | Continue reading
In the first part of a special New Matilda investigative series, clinical psychologist Dr Lissa Johnson exposes the ‘science’ behind the hunt for Julian Assange, and the tactics those in power use to keep you in the dark. Next month rallies will be held in Sydney and Melbourne in … | Continue reading
This is the second blogpost from my "technological narratives" series. The first was How Elon Musk takes Wikipedia's place. Cory Doctorow CC-BY-SA Gregory Katsoulis / Pixabay Anonymous What might come to a surprise to a lot of people, the hacker movement exists outside of the Hol … | Continue reading
Every developer knows that the testable code can make life easier. There are a lot of books and articles written about unit-testing. Particular attention is paid to Test-driven development (TDD) as the best process for the development of hi-tech products. In my working routine, I … | Continue reading
Members of National Central University’s (NCU) Research Center for New Generation Photovoltaics yesterday announced that they have developed efficient perovskite solar cells that work in room lighting and are working with groups in Japan to improve verification techniques for cel … | Continue reading
Xubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” is just around the corner. It features numerous updates and an updated snapshot of Xfce 4.14 development. If you want to see all the changes, you’ve co… | Continue reading
Thanks, universe. Once in a while you send big blinking signs that everything’s unfolding according to plan. Yes, whether it’s a supersmooth drive home, some eerie deja vu, or a perfect time showing up on the clock, you drop buzzy little braintwists that always keep us guessing. … | Continue reading
A new paper in the European Sociological Review indicates that women's and men's earnings are not affected by the share of female managers in an organization, nor by the sex of workers' individual managers. | Continue reading
The EU dedicates a third of its budget to less economically developed regions for investments in infrastructure. Yet when regions improve economically, they no longer qualify for the same amount of funding. As a type of statistical gerrymandering, governors of these regions have … | Continue reading
Categorizing my personal expenses has always been a good activity. It helps me track where I am spending too much and how a month is… | Continue reading
This article applies mainly to mobile apps which are not in active development. It applies equally to mobile apps on the public app stores a... | Continue reading
Rembrandt Reality App by Capitola VR allows art fans to walk around the artist's “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” in augmented reality. | Continue reading
Microsoft is building data centers and expanding security capabilities to compete with Amazon to host sensitive government data. | Continue reading
“Apparently Google wants to protect the American people from our polysyllabic words and occasional long sentences. and in the course of doing so, they lied to Congress. And we may be looking into them in the near future.” So spoke... | Continue reading
Growth in data is fueling many more options, but so far it’s not clear which of them will win. | Continue reading
Facebook says that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change circa May 2016. | Continue reading
It was quite an astonishing week for science and technology, in large part because we got to see the first photo of a black hole—something that has fascinated us humans for so long. The photo was a… | Continue reading