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Filmmaking at the atomic level? IBM nets Guinness world record

With 'A boy and his atom," Big Blue has made what may be the first movie explicitly starring atoms. If you're looking to attract attention, setting a Guinness World Record is probably a good way to start.

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This Week In Spring - April 30th, 2013

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover this week, as usual, so let's get to it. Did you miss last week's Pivotal public launch? Catch t

Software | Linux World Embraces Google Chromebooks

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NASA unveils the clearest look yet at a mega hurricane occupying Saturn's north pole. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) NASA released the most-detailed images ever seen of a gigantic hurricane that scientists believe has existed at Saturn's north pole for years.

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A non-persistent XSS vulnerability has been discovered in the Orchard.Comments module that is distributed with the core distribution of the CMS. The module could in some circums

There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as a reminder to me (and all of us) that external dependencies are, in fact, external. As such, they are calculated risk

Mozilla's lawyers are sending a nasty gram to a U.K. company that writes spyware for government snoops. The problem is that FinFisher masquerades as FireFox on the PC, according to researchers at The Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-backed project that investigates technology and human rights.

Those numbers have been enough to help the company land a $3 million Series A round, led by Union Square Ventures, along with O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Earlier investors who had helped the Y Combinator company raise a $1.5 million seed round are also back; they include Yuri Milner, Lerer Ventures and XG Ventures.

Spring Integration & Spring Batch greatly simplify the process of developing enterprise integration architectures and messaging systems. This session covers architectural patterns and real world examples showing how comprehensive the capabilities of Spring Integration & Batch are, while being lightweight enough to be suitable for very high performance environments.

Aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Chris Hadfield unveils the new polymer $5 bill, which showcases ISS robots Canadarm2 and Dextre. (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) By far the coolest thing Canada has in space is Chris Hadfield, commander of the International Space Station.

I've written on my blog before about the Microsoft Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library has a long and accomplished history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems. Over the years, it's achieved a significant reach, seeing over 4 million downloads and powering many industrial systems. I'm excited to share that the patterns & practices team has just released Enterprise Library 6.0.

The ASP.NET content maps are lists of resources that we have reviewed and recommend. The content maps have been popular in their present form, but we're looking at ways to improve them, such as by publishing more lists but with a narrower focus to each one, by providing more information for each link, and by formatting them differently.

The Arduino Esplora is a ready-to-use, easy-to-hold controller that lets you explore the infinitive possibilities you have in the world of sensor and actuators, without having to deal with breadboards, soldering or cable. There is no limit to the applications-amusing, educational, useful - you can program.

Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements.

The Nokia Asha full touch offering introduced an API called Category bar. In the UX guidelines it says that you should never, ever, in a million years place actions in there. Now why is that? Are we just trying to fool you with this guidance? No, we're not. And this is why.

Jaron Lanier: The Internet Is the Road That Precedes a Lemonade Stand

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Connector/Net 6.7 (6.7.2 beta, published on Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013)

MySQL Utilities provides a collection of command-line utilities that are used for maintaining and administering MySQL servers, including:

A quadruped robot developed at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has been taught to walk by being fed data based on the movements of a horse. (Credit: Video screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) We know Boston Dynamics is keen on four-legged robots, even creating a cheetah of its very own.

Canon has released one of the most significant firmware updates for the high-end SLR thus far. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) First announced in October 2012, version 1.2.1 of the Canon EOS 5D Mark III firmware will allow users to output a clean HDMI feed.

It's not your usual rubber snake: for the first time, a soft-bodied robot is able to slither around powered by air. It can reach a leisurely top speed of 19 millimetres per second. The muscles of the prototype, developed by Cagdas Onal and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are tiny tubes made from soft polymers called elastomers that line the snake's four segments.

The Internet Archive?s Wayback Machine is

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 9:00AM Who's Hiring? Want to build scalable systems that power the world's largest music streaming service? Spotify is looking for engineers for our backend infrastructure team. Apply now. At Evernote our vision is to help the world remember everything.

Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission.

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a Vining, Minn., native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7- 8 a.m. ED

NASA Extends Crew Flight Contract with Russian Space Agency WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with return and rescue services extending through June 2017.

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An international team of chemists and epidemiologists is in Cyprus this week, poised to fly to Syria at the request of the country's president, Bashar Al-Assad, in the first investigation of an alleged use of chemical weapons since the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) came into force in 1997.

Eager to avoid being seen as another dating site, the startup instead wants to appeal to younger generations who prefer casual meetups over drinks at a local bar to traditional "dinner-and-a-movie" dates. Since launch, the service has expanded into 20 U.S. cities, and members have shared hundreds of thousands of drinks.

Announcing Amazon Web Services Global Certification Program

We are excited to announce the launch of the Amazon Web Services Global Certification Program. AWS Certifications designate individuals who demon

Wacom today announces the Cintiq 22HD touch, a new addition to its expanding interactive pen display portfolio, now featuring multi-touch. Combining multi-touch with Wacom's renowned pen technology, t

Liz: We?ve been talking a bit about Khan Academy Lite on this blog recently. KA Lite is the offline version of Khan Academy, and we?ve recently seen the Kingdom of Bhutan?s first Raspberry Pi b

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Integration

We?ve now posted the latest episode of the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series where we learn a little more about app integratio

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(Phys.org) ?If you did not hear it from somebody else, you probably asked the same question yourself: What would I really do with a smartwatch, if it's for viewing only, when I need something for text

06:50, Electronics/Robotics Charlie Kemp, associate professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has developed technology that keeps the robot's arm flexible and gives the robot a sense of touch across its entire arm.

Research | Like a Good Scotch, Developers Get Better With Age

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GeoServer is an open source server for managing geographic information system (GIS) data sources and serving them easily through Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Map Service (WMS) web services. It in

MySQL Utilities provides a collection of command-line utilities that are used for maintaining and administering MySQL servers, including:

Lab-quality microscope now mounts onto most Apple iOS devices

The ProScope Micro Mobile by handheld digital microscope manufacturer Bodelin starts shipping on May 1 for $149. (Credit: Bodelin) To my fellow geeks who've long dreamed of having a lab-quality digital microscope that mounts to your phone, the time has come. Oregon-based optics manufacturer Bodelin will begin shipping its brand-new ProScope Micro Mobile on May 1.

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 is now available! This is software still in development and we really don't recommend that you run it on a production site - set up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you'll want "bleeding edge nightlies").

A Kickstarter project promises to deliver seeds and plants that glow in the dark, thanks to synthetic biology and designer DNA sequences. (Credit: BioCurious) Humans have a lot in common with magpies. We gravitate toward shiny things. It's easy, then, to see why the Glowing Plants project on Kickstarter has more than doubled its goal and still has 38 days to go.

Notes from the April 22 Dart Language Design Meeting

elvis operator / safe navigation operator Lars is fine with the idea of adding some syntactic sugar like this if it helps real users. Kasper thinks we should wait until after 1.0 to look into it since we'll need analyzer support, editor support, tests, etc.

A collaborative research network that formed nearly 10 years ago has pioneered the use of computational and mathematical models to prepare for, detect and respond to influenza, pertussis, West Nile di

Glenn Block is working on something interesting that combines C#, NuGet, Roslyn (the new "compiler as a service") and his love of text editors and scripts. Now, with help from Justin Rusbatch (@jrusbatch) and Filip Wojcieszyn (@filip_woj) they are having all kinds of fun...using C# as a scripting language.

Using the Windows Runtime Media API Learn how to play multimedia files with the Windows Runtime media API. In this article, I'll discuss how to use the Windows Runtime media API to play both music and video files within a Windows Store app.

Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space WASHINGTON -- The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.

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