Monday 31 March 2014

Contact Lenses With Infrared Vision?

Orlando (12257) writes "A story on Singularity Hub reports that "Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by electrical engineer Zhaohui Zhong, have devised a way to capture the infrared spectrum without requiring the cooling that makes infrared goggles so cumbersome." The method uses graphene and could one day lead to ultra light weight infrared vision technology."

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Introduction to npm

By Toby Ho npm is the granddaddy of JavaScript package managers. It is the beloved package manager for Node. It hosts over 64 thousand modules and counting. Based on data at modulecounts.com – npm is by far the fastest growing package manager, that’s is compared to Ruby Gems, CPAN, PyPI, Maven plus a few others. […]



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Shouldn't Be Hard

(six hours later) ARGH. How are these stupid microchips so durable?! All I want is to undo a massive industrial process with household tools!



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Red Hat Banking on OpenStack for Future Growth

ServerWatch: "There is substantially more interest in OpenStack, frankly, than there has been in really any products since Linux," Whitehurst said






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How Ford's Virtual Reality Lab Helps Engineers

cartechboy (2660665) writes "Facebook bought OculusVR and the world tilted a little on its axis. But good old Ford has been using VR all along without much fanfare. VR tech effectively gives Ford engineers X-ray vision, so they can — virtually — see through a vehicle's structure, which helps to design mechanical hardware, and spot issues with designs that might interfere with vehicle 'hard points.' Ford's engineers also use VR headsets to check out exterior and interior designs of cars that don't exist in the physical world — at least not yet. Team members walk around virtual cars to preview designs, or "get in" to check if interior layouts will work in the real world."

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Sunday 30 March 2014

NVIDIA's GeForce Driver On Ubuntu 14.04 Runs The Same As Windows 8.1

The latest NVIDIA Windows driver at the time of testing was the 335.23 WHQL release while on the Linux side was the 334.21 driver. The graphics cards tested for this article included the GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 750, and GeForce GTX 770. The system used for all testing was the Intel Core i7 4770K Haswell system. Windows 8.1 had all available updates at the time of testing as did our development version of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which was running with the Linux 3.13 kernel and is in a near-final state. This testing is very straight forward and snafus are rare with the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver, so let's get straight to the data.


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Saturday 29 March 2014

Intel Upgrades Tiny Edison Computer

Intel's contribution to wearable tech has just received an upgrade and redesign to give the Edison computer greater capabilities, more sensors and wireless connectivity. The new and improved version of Edison will be begin shipping this summer. Comments



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Video shows Xbox 360 emulation working on a PC





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Apple Open-Sources Their 64-bit ARM LLVM Back-End

Back in September of last year after Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S smart-phone with a 64-bit processor, they said they would ultimately open-source their 64-bit ARM compiler back-end... A half-year later, we're finally seeing this code that yields another AArch64 back-end for LLVM...



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Le microPC Edison d'Intel abandonne la Quark pour un Atom afin de mieux vous épier

Lors du CES 2014, Intel avait dévoilé Edison, un micro PC de la taille d'une carte SD qui devrait venir s'installer dans les objets et vêtements connectés. Au début, il était question d'utiliser un CPU Intel Quark, un genre de Pentium gravé en 22nm sur une architecture 486 DX... [Tout lire]



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Friday 28 March 2014

Valve's VR guru jumps ship to become Oculus' head scientist

As it turns out, not everyone is bummed that Oculus VR will soon fall into Facebook's gaping maw. Valve's Michael Abrash -- one of the most notable names in the company's ambitious VR group -- just announced that he's joined Oculus as its new Chief...



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Four short links: 28 March 2014

WearScript — open source project putting Javascript on Glass. See story on it. (via Slashdot) Mining the World’s Data by Selling Street Lights and Farm Drones (Quartz) — Depending on what kinds of sensors the light’s owners choose to install, …



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WebScaleSQL: il fork di MySQL di Facebook, Google, Twitter e LinkedIn

In queste ore Facebook ha tolto i veli al progetto WebScaleSQL, sforzo di collaborazione tra gli ingegneri del software di importanti aziende del Web con l’obiettivo comune di ottimizzare MySQL per applicazioni di notevoli dimensioni.


WebScaleSQL è il database relazionale (RDBMS) che permette a Facebook di gestire un’infrastruttura di condivisione e comunicazione frequentata da 1,32 miliardi di persone in tutto il mondo, spiega l’ingegnere del social network Steaphan Greene, un risultato ottenuto grazie all’introduzione di ottimizzazioni specifiche a partire dall’ultima release ufficiale di MySQL (attualmente MySQL 5.6).


Oltre a Facebook, al momento lavorano a WebScaleSQL i programmatori di Google,


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Sony's 13-inch 'Digital Paper' is just like paper, except it costs $1,100

Despite years of development, E Ink's displays haven't yet replaced traditional paper everywhere. Sony's trying to change that with this 13.3-inch Digital Paper device intended for legal, educational and business environments and after we got a brief...



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Before the Internet

We watched DAYTIME TV. Do you realize how soul-crushing it was? I'd rather eat an iPad than go back to watching daytime TV.



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Jolla's Sailfish OS Is Now Available For Google's Nexus 4

Jolla's Sailfish operating system is now available for those that wish to run their ported Mer-based mobile Linux platform on Google Nexus 4 smart-phones...



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Microsoft reveals Kinect for Windows v2 design, getting 'closer and closer' to launch





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Thursday 27 March 2014

Android x86, Intel and Google

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The New 16 Lego Simpsons






A new set of characters from "The Simpsons" have been brought to the world of Lego. In..(Read...)






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Four short links: 27 March 2014

2D Image Post-Processing Techniques and Algorithms (DIY Drones) — understanding how automated image matching and processing tools work means you can also get a better understanding how to shoot your images and what to prevent to get good matches. Scientists …



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Microservices (@martinfowler)

"The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. While there is no precise definition of this architectural style, there are certain common characteristics around organization around business capability, automated deployment, intelligence in the endpoints, and decentralized control of languages and data."






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Wednesday 26 March 2014

Four short links: 26 March 2014

brick — uncompressed versions of popular web fonts. The difference between compressed and uncompressed is noticeable. Speaking Javascript — free online version of the new O’Reilly book by Axel Rauschmayer. micio.js — clever hack to communicate between Arduino and mobile …



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Microsoft's Website Thinks That All Linux Systems Are Windows 8.1

Microsoft is not quick to recognize that other operating systems exist besides Windows 8.1, so its website says that you are running Windows 8.1 no matter what operating system you are using.


It will be a cold day in hell when Microsoft is held in high regard by the Linux community, and the main reason for this problem is the arrogance that it displays every chance it gets.


A Reddit user has discovered that, if you access a Windows page that shows you what kind of operating system you are using, it will always display Windows 8.1. Even if you access the website from an Android or iOS device, you will get the same answer.


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Firefox Developers Introduce RR C/C++ Debugger

Mozilla developers working on the Firefox web-browser have introduced a new debugger they developed when working on the browser itself...



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Free Download: Avatars and Emoticons Vector Set


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Tuesday 25 March 2014

Portal comes to NVIDIA's Shield as an exclusive Android port

You won't have to stick to a PC or TV to play Valve's iconic games in the future. The developer is teaming up with NVIDIA to bring the original Portal to the Shield handheld -- in other words, Portal is coming to Android. The two haven't said just...



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Android SDK For Full Body Motion Control

Developer route to console-like full body motion control for games and apps



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Trulli al volante della Spark-Renault: ecco il rombo della Formula E


25 marzo 2014 – Jarno Trulli ha già provato la nuova Spark Renault SRT_01E, la vettura con cui i dieci team iscritti al campionato di Formula E disputeranno l’intera stagione. Oggi gli organizzatori hanno anche rilasciato un video che permette







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NVIDIA announces Titan Z: a $3,000 graphics computing powerhouse

Thought that NVIDIA's Titan Black was as good as it gets in the GPU world? You were mistaken. Meet the GeForce GTX Titan Z (seen in all its glory after the break), NVIDIA's latest graphical behemoth announced by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang today at NVIDIA's...



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Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS and Word

Company donates DOS 1.1 and Word for Windows 1.1 code to Computer History Museum.



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Moi3D : beta V3 - 03 24 2014 is out!

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Moment of Inspiration : a zen Nurbs modeler!



Beta V3



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Parallel Array Operations in Java 8

The new release of Java makes it simple to perform parallel operations on arrays — leading to substantially better performance with minimal additional code.



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Four short links: 25 March 2014

Meet the Super-Taskers (Psychology Today) — As part of the Nissan GT Academy challenge, the top 10 players of the car-racing game Gran Turismo are given the chance to race real automobiles in competition. They’re very good—too good, in fact. …



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Maratis: An Open Source, Visual Game Engine for Linux

A new open source game engine has been launched by the name of Maratis. It is a portable open source, visual game engine that can be used both by game developers and artists alike.


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Slate – Modern IRC Client Built with Node.js


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Monday 24 March 2014

GNOME Software 3.12.0 Released!

Today I released gnome-software 3.12.0 — with a number of new features and a huge number of bugfixes


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Lego bricks still last 30,000+ impressions during new and improved test

The Internet's favorite Arduino-using Lego brick tester is back.



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Features You Should Be Able To Find In C++14

The ISO C++ committee has reached the point of possibly having the final draft of C++14 as a minor update to the widely-used programming language. For those curious about the likely changes to find with C++14, here's an article to checkout...



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Four short links: 24 March 2014

The Parable of Google Flu (PDF) — We explore two issues that contributed to [Google Flu Trends]’s mistakes—big data hubris and algorithm dynamics—and offer lessons for moving forward in the big data age. Overtrained and underfed? Duktape — a lightweight …



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Saturday 22 March 2014

Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture

Actually, I do RTFA writes "We recently heard about the confiscation of a delivery of multimeters to SparkFun for infringing on Fluke's trademark. One common thread in the discussions was the theme that Fluke should have let that shipment through as a goodwill gesture to SparkFun and the Maker community. Well, Fluke did one better. They announced they were sending more than $30k worth of official multimeters to SparkFun for them to do whatever they want with. SparkFun is most likely going to give them away. A great example of win-win-win?"

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