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But there comes a technology once in several decades that redefines innovation and allows new technologies to get built on that.

Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate exceeding 100 gigabits (= 0.1 terabit) per second over a single channel using the 300-GHz band. This technology enables data rates 10 times or more faster than that offered by the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G), expected to appear around 2020.

But due to FAA regulations, they weren’t flying live

Episode 30             Enough about recruitment, let’s get back to code. This article is (more or less)  going to be a continuation of Rock SOLID Code. I’ve talked about five principles forming let…

Sir Boyle Roche famously said, "Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?" Quite a lot, actually. We were born…

Learn how to set up your configuration file to indicate the types of packages you want to install by using the “yum” command.

The cloud-agnostic open source platform IronFunctions, from Iron.io, reflects a more nuanced approach to hybrid cloud that is emerging in the enterprise market. Many large businesses are attracted to cloud hosting solutions because of the speed of innovation and the available range of tooling for distributed application architecture design. But both new and continuing concerns…

IronFunctions - the serverless microservices platform by - GitHub - iron-io/functions: IronFunctions - the serverless microservices platform by

Swift is a new programming language launched by Apple slightly over two years ago. Like C and C++, it offers ahead-of-time compilation to native code but with many new modern features. It is available on Linux and macOS. Like C++, Swift comes complete with its own data structures like dictionaries (key-value or associative maps) and … Continue reading Maps and sets can have quadratic-time performance

The former New York Times technology reporter says, "The world is aging, and nobody gets it."

My Dad and his siblings often tell me stories about how my grandmother raised six children as they were growing up - and central to this wa...

Donating my being to (citizen) science! BobAPI is a personal API to collect and share health, wellness, biometric, activity, and personal self-tracking data

We need to understand the algorithm to understand our algorithmic lives....

We’ve come a long way from the simple “trusted trio” method of organizing our inbox, and for many of us our email is as disorganized as it’s ever been. To beat back the tide, this five folder system gives you a bit more flexibility to clean things up, but still keep everything you need just one click away.

This tutorial cover how to implement DNS server using docker container. To setup DNS server with Docker use BIND DNS bundled with Webmin interface.

We have excellent tools to create and edit text (vim, emacs, sublime, etc.). We have pretty good tools to create and edit tabular data (excel, other spreadsh...

If we attentively look at IT industry at 2017, all of us will see “containers” and “Docker” as the top buzzwords ever. We started to package developed software in Docker containers in every field. …

Finally a desktop that's both beauty and beast.

"The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear codes—it’s that they exist in the first place."

Imagine you have decided to spend your life evangelizing healthy eating. And then imagine that you happen upon a population that does nothing but scream

People assume help will be there when they need it. They don’t want to wait and they don’t want to have to ask. As Neha Singh explains, designers must accept these basic human traits an…

Science fiction once imagined life under a united planetary order; but some recent writers count on more, not fewer borders. By Paul Di Filippo.

Nathan writes, “Wanting a more immediate and responsive way to do something about the outrage a friend and I felt every time we read about the latest assaults on civil liberties, I built an A…

Coober Pedy is an Australian mining town with such an extensive labyrinth of depleted opal mines that half the town’s residents live underground. There are bookstores, churches, and other pub…

What do you get when you power a layer of liquid crystal material sandwiched between two sheets of glass? A Liquid Crystal Light Valve (a.k.a a LCD Controllable Black-out Panel)! They're often used for electric welding helmets because they can protect the welder's eyes from the bright sparks. Or – if you aren't a welder – they can be used to provide a "reveal" effect for your project, as you can control the opaqueness of the LCD.