Mobile application users love maps, and developers have many API choices to add mapping features to their apps. If you want to add navigation, location based features, route planning or other mapping related features to apps, here's a list of popular APIs from ProgrammableWeb. | Continue reading
Google announced the release of Apigee Extensions, a feature within the company’s API management platform that aims to simplify the process of interacting with various Google Cloud Platform services. Previously developers were required to use the ServiceCallout function to acces … | Continue reading
Label famous (and not-so-famous) landmarks in images | Continue reading
Data loss is one of the greatest frustrations users can experience. It's not only their data they lose, but also the time and money they put into it. | Continue reading
When people think of fishing in Colorado, most imagine an angler tossing a fly atop the flowing water of a picturesque river. But if you're looking to try something new, there's a whole other world of fishing waiting below the surface. | Continue reading
The Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature credit card offers 5% back at Amazon and Whole Foods. But is it worth the membership fee? | Continue reading
Over the years of designing and printing business cards and calling cards, there is one famous card that is referenced time and time again. This card’s celebrity status comes from a three-minute movie scene and is visible for about four seconds, yet it has become one of our most … | Continue reading
Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant Universe that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image, called the Hubble Legacy Field, contains roughly 265,000 galaxies that stretch back to just 500 million years after the Big Bang.Cre … | Continue reading
Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins Doha Diamond League 800m race. | Continue reading
Caliburn International, which runs a massive shelter in Homestead, Florida, confirmed Friday that the former White House chief of staff has joined its board | Continue reading
From Alexa to self-driving cars, emotion-detecting technologies are becoming ubiquitous—but they rely on out-of-date science | Continue reading
Beginning in the early 1990s, an emerald carpet of avocado trees crept up the hills along Chile's Petorca Valley, placing strain on the water basin that... | Continue reading
After weeks of speculation, SpaceX has finally admitted that a Crew Dragon capsule was destroyed during a test of system’s abort thrusters on April 20. No cause was given for the anomaly, nor were any new details disclosed about possible delays to NASA’s languishing Commercial Cr … | Continue reading
Dr. Paul Young says some companies demand he fill out a two-page form for absences that are two days or longer. Some ask that the Bedford, N.S., physician include copies of up to three months of a patient's chart. | Continue reading
There are two types of individuals:- | Continue reading
Susie Lopez at Lit Hub: The Wake has been called “the most colossal leg pull in literature” and even Joyce’s patron fell out with him over it. But Wake scholarship is thriving more than ever. In the words of Joyce Scholar Sam Slote almost “any analysis will be incomplete.” After … | Continue reading
Thor in Avengers Endgame goes through some drastic changes, but his place in the overall story almost saw some differences from the final cut. | Continue reading
Josie Thaddeus-Johns at The Baffler: IN 1997, when Jenny Holzer created Installation for Bilbao for the Spanish city’s newly opened Guggenheim, social media did not exist. Google had yet to be founded; dial-up internet meant listening to an inhuman caterwaul every time you connec … | Continue reading
Authorities have released police body camera video showing the moment when officers in Oregon realized a suspected robber holed up in a bathroom was really a robotic vacuum cleaner. | Continue reading
The study of entanglement through the length of interactive proof systems has been one of the most productive applications of complexity theory to the physical sciences that I know of. Last week An… | Continue reading
I start sweating nervously every time I read about how air travel impacts the environment. I don't want to stay grounded. | Continue reading
Sudip Bose at The American Scholar: He was, to be sure, one of those candles that burn twice as bright but half as long, an all-American violinist in an age dominated by the European virtuoso. He was born on this date in 1936, into a highly musical Manhattan family, his father a … | Continue reading
Rest has become the ultimate luxury. | Continue reading
You might think your hiding spot is safe, but burglars know your tricks. Burglars will make a beeline to the room with the most valuables. “The good stop is always going to be in the master bedroom,” says Chris McGoey, CPP, CSP, CAM, president of McGoey Security Consulting. “That … | Continue reading
It’s not an easy time to be a journalist, which is why we want to recognize World Press Freedom Day. On this crucial day, we celebrate the freedom of the press, defend and support the independence of journalists, and honor those who have lost their lives while reporting a story. | Continue reading
Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading
Google today announced the release of a new and improved landmark recognition dataset. Google-Landmarks-v2 includes over 5 million images… | Continue reading
Room for Rent is a familiar | Continue reading
Knowledge, like potato salad, goes bad over time. Smoking, Pluto, and the brontosaurus are just a few examples. Here’s how to manage the half-life of knowledge and stay current in an ever-changing world. | Continue reading
In 1984, the great James Taylor paid a visit to Sesame Street, where he and the curmudgeonly trash dweller Oscar the Grouch performed a duet that told | Continue reading
In our Luce review, we take a closer look at this stirring and unfortunately relevant drama from the Tribeca Film Festival. | Continue reading
Organizations are made up of people. And people will always, always, always put their own personal baggage ahead, over the priorities of the organization | Continue reading
Write libraries in C# and compile them using CoreRT to be able to re-use them in other programming languages that support the standard FFI. | Continue reading
Happy weekend! Why do chores when you can read stuff? | Continue reading
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading
The best part of it all, is that you may be getting into that Summer bikini after all from all those calories you burn while doing it! Yes, experts discove | Continue reading
We propose a new way of deriving policy gradient updates for reinforcementlearning. Our technique, based on Fourier analysis, recasts integrals thatarise with expected policy gradients as... | Continue reading
Not sure which transactional email service to use for your WordPress site? In this article, we compare Amazon SES, Mailgun and SendGrid. | Continue reading
A tabby cat has new back legs, with the help of some University of Wisconsin-Madison students and a 3D printer. | Continue reading
We’ve become a society of consumers instead of citizens | Continue reading