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Reverse engineering turns 'Smarter AM' into brew-bot

Linux Lord also feels Internet of Things hardware is mostly doomed, like his old Sinclair QL

Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil

So In this blog, I wanted to share two things. Number One, A high level overview of how I approached about creating a PCE prototype, but more importantly the motivation behind it and the things I learned during the process. So almost, a little bit over an year ago, when I wasn’t working for a […]

Domain Generation Algorithms(DGAs) are used in malware to generate a large number of domain names that can be used in communications to the malware’s command and control servers. One reason that DGAs are used is because a predefined list of domains that will be used as Command & Control (C&C) servers can be easily discovered in […]

DataViz is a broad term that has been trending for years, so what exactly is DataViz, and why does it matter? DataViz (or data visualization) is simply the visual representation of data or information. For example, charts, maps, diagrams, infographics, icons and illustrations are all forms of data v

With Amazon's Echo, Snapchat Spectacles or the Apple Watch, we're unbundling not just components but apps, and especially pieces of apps. We take an input or an output from an app on a phone and move it to a new context. We remove friction, but we also remove choices. 

A new crop of applications is driving the market along some unexpected routes, in some cases bypassing the processor as the landmark for performance and

By the time you read this, Let’s Encrypt will have issued its 12 millionth certificate, of which 6 million are active and unexpired. With these milestones, Let’s Encrypt now appears to us to be the

You’ve come a long way, baby. Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) was a not just an about-face for Oracle; it was a turnaround of epic proportions. From Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder and Chief Technologist, calling the cloud “the dumbest idea of 2013” to the evangelical zeal of his first statement of his OOW keynote circa 2016: “We are in the…

The rising share of income from housing occurs in states with tight supply and is associated with declining real interest rates and inflation

But by god we're developing some niches. Starting with shoe-based analytics

This tutorial explains the configuration of a DRBD network filesystem replication as hot standby (Primary/Secondary) with EXT4 filesystem and as Prima...

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by Roneesh I finally made sense of front end build tools. You can, too.Front end build tools can be confusing even to experienced developers like me. The solution is to understand how they work — and work together — on a conceptual level. This article presents my opinionated approach to making

Why telemetry, a new factor in app development, can mean the difference between success and failure in the cloud.

Five questions for Laura Mather: Insights on how groupthink and heterogeneous teams impact decision-making.

How much swag does one physics class have?

Swag-o-meter: Student Feedback System, Carnival Style: Update 2: I made a mini swag-o-meter that really works. Check the video in the last step.Update: you can participate in a contest: invent a killer app for the swag-o-meter! Win a great prize! Click this sentence for more info!As a physics teacher I …

We have a new series launching this week called Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain. The six-episode series, produced by Stateless Media, examines the rise of Bitcoin and the tech that allows it to operate. The first episode will answer all your questions about the Bitcoin platform and how it works. Why did futurists want to create a […]

NYC's JFK now uses the software to monitor and forecast passenger numbers.

Matthew Hodgson Contributor Matthew Hodgson is technical co-founder of Matrix.org, a not-for-profit open source project unifying Chat, VoIP and IoT technologies. Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is supposed to be the next big thing in video calling. So now we […]

When learning TDD, you usually start by testing small, individual classes.Exercises like these are designed to get you into the workflow quickly, without muc...

When “legibility” depends on who sees it

A few years ago I added an implementation of the max-margin object-detection algorithm  (MMOD) to dlib. This tool has since become quite po...