Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Twitters Says Its App Analysis Tool Is Juggling 5 Billion Devices a Day

Twitters Says Its App Analysis Tool Is Juggling 5 Billion Devices a Day

Twitter says it’s now juggling about 5 billion sessions a day on its Answers service, the tool it released this past summer in an effort to help the world’s software developers analyze the performance of their mobile apps. In other words, the company says, developers are now using the seven-month-old service to collect app data […]


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Open-source software aims to change game for smart facades


Where outcomes don’t meet thermal performance standards, variations mean innovation often becomes a casualty. InEnergy, a new open-source software tool engineered by Inhabit Group, aims to prevent the dumbing down of designs and assist clients and designers to achieve higher performance outcomes without adding to costs.


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Monday, 16 February 2015

No One Understands Me But You

Inside the Mind of a Schizophrenic Through Virtual Reality

blottsie writes Viscira produces videos and technology simulations for the healthcare industry, and the project I tested called "Mindscape" was created for a pharmaceutical company that wanted to give potential clients insight into what some schizophrenic patients might feel like in a real-life scenario. Unlike audio tests or videos that show you a first-person perspective of schizophrenic experiences, Viscira's demonstration uses the Oculus Rift headset and is entirely immersive. You can look around at each individual's face, and up and down the hallway. Walk through the elevator, and hear voices that appear to be coming from both strangers and your own head.

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Four short links: 16 February 2015

The Queen of Code — 12m documentary on Grace Hopper, produced by fivethirtyeight.com. Car Dashboard UI Collection — inspiration board for your (data) dashboards. Subjectivity-Exploitability Tradeoff — Voting-based DAOs, lacking an equivalent of shareholder regulation, are vulnerable to attacks where …



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Processing frameworks for Hadoop

Editor’s note: Mark Grover will be part of the team teaching the tutorial Architectural Considerations for Hadoop Applications at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose. Visit the Strata + Hadoop World website for more information on the program. Hadoop …



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I Am Bread gets updated with playable baguette

THFR étoffe son comparatif de SSD avec maintenant 145 modèles testés

Notre confrère THFR continue son tour d'horizon des SSD avec un comparatif qui embarque maintenant 145 modèles. Les nouvelles stars de ce comparatif sont le Samsung 850 EVO décliné en 120 Go, 250 Go, 500 Go et 1 To, ainsi que le Corsair Neutron XT en 480 Go et 960 Go... [Tout lire]



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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Google Partners With Mattel to Bring VR to the Iconic View-Master

Google Partners With Mattel to Bring VR to the Iconic View-Master

Mattel is giving the View-Master, that retro vestige of Christmas mornings gone by, a futuristic facelift through a partnership with Google.


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Samsung Galaxy S6 reportedly drops bloatware in favor of Microsoft apps

Quite a few smartphone fans will tell you that a Samsung phone's Achilles' heel is its software -- you'll find a ton of (frequently unwanted) apps and features that do little besides chew up space and slow things down. You may get to wave goodbye to ...



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Thursday, 12 February 2015

Free Download: 40 Flat Icons from Squid Ink

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Yocto Project tackles Linux design incompatibilities


Open-source technology is one solution to this challenge, especially where it allows the tight integration of software with a range of hardware options. An important aspect of this is the creation of open-source platforms around the Linux operating system, which has a growing software infrastructure that OEMs can take advantage of to develop and debug designs.


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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Learn blender with a poster

All Blender's shortcuts on one poster! It's a little crowded, but then so is Blender ;-) Giuliano D'Angelo writes: In Blender, shortcuts are the ring of power. Here is my tribute to the best 3d open source application. A complete infographic to help finding the way in modeling with Blender 3d. The size of the [...]



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Monday, 9 February 2015

Java 8 streams API and parallelism

In the last post in this series, we learned about functional interfaces and lambdas. In particular, we looked at the ITrade functional interface, and filtered a collection of trades to generate a specific value. Prior to the feature updates made …



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Beginning Test-Driven Development in Python

HiKey: An 8-Core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 Board For $129 USD, But With One Sad Flaw

96Boards, the open hardware specification for ARM boards out of the Linaro Community Board Group, has out their first ARM board certified against their consumer edition standard...



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Gran Turismo gamers race in real life — and win