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A tool inspired by swarming insects is helping people predict the future - making groups of people smarter than their members are by themselves.

Pick up the latest tech toys for friends, family and colleagues this holiday.

This articles talks about some common stereotypes about programming and programmers.

I always use to chat with a great friend of mine about how often times when discussing the “Internet of Things” we don’t talk so much about creating digital tools that adapt thems…

'We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction,' former Iraqi ruler told CIA

In a society buffeted by technological change, the discipline of “engineering ethics” raises some of our most significant and difficult-to-answer questions: from last year’s Moral…

Easy & Secure Guest WLAN setup with QR code GUI and photodiashow. - GitHub - NicoHood/guestwlan: Easy & Secure Guest WLAN setup with QR code GUI and photodiashow.

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This post is part of the series “Every Day Is Monday in Operations.” Throughout this series we discuss our challenges, share our war stories, and walk through the learnings we’ve gained as Operations leaders. You can read the introduction and find links to the rest of the series here.

Ezra Glinter surveys the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem....

In a push to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from a fast-evolving industry, California regulators approved the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for computers Wednesday.

The great Richard Feynman said that if someone can’t explain something simply to a novice — at the freshman lecture level — it’s because they don’t actually understand it themselves. Th…

Last week the world celebrated International Stoic Week, and you might be surprised by how many entrepreneurs are understudies of this ancient philosophy.

Y Combinator's president, Sam Altman, says Americans' love affair with work could get in the way of basic income making people any happier.

Docker is getting more and more popular. At Connect() 2016 Microsoft announced the Azure Web Apps on Linux that support docker. To build your containers in a CI build you need a Linux build agent. …

The modern trend towards cloud-native apps seems to be set to kill hypervisors with a long slow death. Paradoxically, it is the massive success of hypervisors and infrastructure-as-a-service during the last 15 years that enabled this trend. Hypervisors introduced the tools that allow sysadmins and developers to deploy one (virtual) server per application efficiently. It…

When it comes to monitoring, Cobe.io embeds the vet within the horse. Backing up: Cobe.io execs like to tell the tale of the customer at the stable waiting on a veterinarian to tend to a sick horse. An expert solution provider (the veterinarian), is called to take care of a critical asset (the horse) on an emergency call…

Steve Jobs is notorious for hating buttons . Here's Jobs explaining the foulness of buttons ...

Once a distributed application is built and deployed, it is crucial to monitor and visualize it to make sure the software is reliable, available, and performs as expected. This article looks at several new API solutions that help providers address these issues for microservice architectures.

Many of the constraints I have in my day-to-day job as a developer come from this mysterious world of the software architect. After listening to Martin Fowler on the Ruby Rogues podcast talk about…