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Imagine smart cars talking directly to each other so they don’t crash. Imagine hooking your smart phone into a giant mesh of phone video streams at a stadium event, so you can watch your event from multiple perspectives. Imagine smart factory devices that manage themselves for better safety and efficiency. Imagine intelligent phones, and other […]

Prometheus has immense scaling capabilities that make it well suited for keeping an eye on high-volume distributed applications, though many misperceptions still linger around the open source monitoring tool. “There are a few common reactions when people first see Prometheus. People wonder, ‘Why isn’t it a log processing system?’ And another other common one is, ‘it…

Automatic extraction of relevant features from time series: - GitHub - blue-yonder/tsfresh: Automatic extraction of relevant features from time series:

Windows 10’s Bash shell doesn’t officially support graphical Linux desktop applications. Microsoft says this feature is designed only for developers who want to run Linux terminal utilities. But the underlying “Windows Subsystem for Linux” is more powerful than Microsoft lets on.

Status meetings are the worst kinds of meetings. Eliminate them and you’ll actually know more, save a pile of money, and regain dozens of hours a month. A status meeting — sometimes called a s…

NicInfo is a smart, command-line RDAP client. Contribute to arineng/nicinfo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Simple hardware speeds core-to-core communication

The massive internet outage last Friday that took out Twitter, GitHub, Spotify and others, was caused by a tsunami of incoming requests to Dyn, the DNS service provider supporting these companies. Where did all these requests pour in from? Hacked  CCTV video cameras, digital video recorders and other IoT devices. The Internet of Things has arrived. And it…

Harvesting phishing sites for filtering has always been somewhat of an ongoing, uphill battle. Many phishing sites are designed to look as close to the legitimate webpages they’re imitating as possible. The more genuine looking, the greater the chance of someone willingly agreeing to hand over sensitive personal information, and also the tougher it is […]

The future success or failure of the economy is up to the young, and many countries could do better to equip them.

After leading a massive division at LinkedIn, and now running three groups at a startup, Roli Saxena knows about burnout. Here's how she fights it with logic.

Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web. - GitHub - GoogleChrome/lighthouse: Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.

We've imagined client feedback on mythical posters, shifting our graphic designer roles with imaginary clients.

Greatly improve the security of your software by making it automatically apply the latest security updates.

Uganda and Kenya both claim Minigo Island (Area:0.0008 sq mi) in Lake Victoria belongs to them. One hundred thirty one people live on the island, because they like the valuable fish, as well as the…

After the DNC hack, security experts began playing close attention to the security of servers associated with the Trump campaign, on the assumption that if the Democrats had been targeted, the Repu…

Read Franklin Foer's follow-up story for new statements from the Trump campaign and Alfa Bank and analysis of the competing theories about the server a ...

Michael Mann’s Collateral has one of the simplest and most startling shootouts in movie history. Even though it’s short and unvarnished—every bullet fired in a single stationary c…

Ignorance—We're too busy doing our jobs to notice that. Dismissal—That? It's trivial. Kids. Nervousness—Let's take a look at what they're up to, benchmark it, buy a research rep…

It’s been three years since the Affordable Health Care Act. Margot Sanger-Katz and Quoctrung Bui for The Upshot look at how this changed the percentage of those who were uninsured in this cou…

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Easily create automated workflows with Microsoft Power Automate, previously Microsoft Flow, to improve productivity with business process automation

Tips for better board game instructions are similar to the advice that could be given to documentation writers for today's software.

Linux and Unix systems have long made it pretty easy to run a command on boot. But as it turns out, running a command on shutdown is a little more complicated.