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Devised by psychologist Albert Maslow, the Hierarchy of Needs is a psychological theory to explain human motivation, comprising of multitier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. Maslow uses terms such as physiological, safety, belongingness and love, esteem, self-actualization, and self-transcendence to describe the stages that human motivation generally moves through. As…

When ARM officials and partners several years ago began talking about pushing the low-power chip architecture from our phones and tablets and into the

Where Facebook is surfing user behaviour, Snapchat is trying to create entirely new experiences all the time, around camera, touch and mobile - around what makes mobile different to the PC.

Trump aims to exploit the public’s mistrust of the media to the hilt, if only to distract from the disappointments that are sure to come.

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Being locked out of your car is not an interesting problem. Call five locksmiths, hire the cheap and fast one, you'll be fine. And getting a script written or a book cover designed isn't …

by Andrew Burmistrov Why you should never ask a developer to fix your bikeI used to work as a system administrator. I spent my days repairing PCs, doing backups, and restoring deleted emails that had suddenly become very important. But sometimes I got really weird requests. Like fixing a microwave.

This week Google released Cloud Spanner1, a publicly available version of their Spanner database. This completes the public release of their 3 main databases, Bigtable (released as Cloud Bigtable),…

Tiny computers could make the IoT more efficient in the future.

Connected devices are beginning to change ownership for the first time, which presents new IoT security challenges for manufacturers.

Inspired by Algorithms, Part I course from Princeton University.

Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting

A look at how rising inequality becomes systemically destructive.

Red Hat open hybrid cloud blog

It’s not “less.” If we care enough, the opposite of more is better.

They’re archiving data and keeping track of what’s being removed.

Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux

Waste management authorities are working constantly to ensure that garbage in the metropolis is put to better use.

Yes, you've guessed correctly - the answer is "42". In this article you will find 42 recommendations about coding in C++ that

Linux text manipulation is awesome when using sed Linux command, we discuss substituting flags, replacing characters, deleting lines, Reading from a file

Long before Trump, open government and open data evangelists had been preserving all kinds of data collected and stored by the government.

The Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik was an armoured ground attack aircraft designed to destroy tanks from tree-top height. A rare survivor is now being restored.

Fast Hash Functions for x86_64

Texas Tribune reporters talked to three convicted traffickers to try to understand the power they wield over victims and the attraction of what they call "the lifestyle." Here they are in their own w…