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Thursday, 14 March 2013

Security and Defense: DARPA Aims to Launch UAVs from Small Ships | Robotics Trends

More Security and Defense stories Effective 21 st-century warfare requires the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike mobile targets anywhere, around the clock. Current technologies, however, have their limitations. Helicopters are relatively limited in the distance and flight time.

More Industry and Manufacturing stories A flexible Tube Press and Weld System developed by ABB Robotics for the Ford Sterling Axle Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, has won the 2012 Ford Global Powertrain Technical Maturity Model Excellence Award. Installed in 2012, the ABB Tube Press and Weld system was selected for the "2012 Top Award" out of 126 global submissions.

Which chip architecture is better suited to this brave new world of low-power server chips? Intel Atom or ARM? Well, we're still waiting for the serious chips to arrive. But according to a new paper from researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, neither architecture has an inherent advantage over the other -- at least not where power consumption is concerned.

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have confirmed that the Higgs-like particle that they discovered on July 4 last year is a Higgs boson. Not the Higgs boson, but a Higgs boson - a subtle but important difference.

CaptainCasa moves from Swing to JavaFX for front-end infrastructure. Published March 2013 CaptainCasa is an open community of midrange business application software vendors using and developing one common front-end infrastructure, the CaptainCasa Enterprise Client, for our business applications. Business applications tend to be: Big-They have many screens.

Twitter finally has a new CTO. The role had been empty since May 2011, when former CTO Greg Pass left the company. Stepping up is the company's former vice president of application development, Adam Messinger. There's no official word from Twitter as of yet, but Messinger has updated his Twitter and LinkedIn profile with his new title.

Reports surfaced yesterday that ad-blocking apps on the Google Play store were being taken down because they violate Google's Developer Distribution Agreement. Being as Google makes most of its money from advertising, it's no surprise that it wants to snuff out as much ad-blocking as possible.

The Sample Browser gives developers a new relaxing experience to search, download and browse over 4500 code samples from MSDN Samples Gallery. The large sample repository includes more than 700 Microsoft official code samples for Windows Store apps, over 1000 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework samples driven by developers' real-world pains and needs, and various product samples and community samples.

Elgg is a leading open source social networking platform which can be used to power your social network.

Release Notes 3/14/2013

Magento knows that creating a seamless, end-to-end online shopping experience for your customers is critical to the success of your online store. It is important to think beyond set-up and marketing and consider what happens after your customer completes an online transaction.

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

Preparation Before starting this tutorial, you'll need the following: To check out the source, run the following commands (or use a suitable Git GUI tool): Customising Bootstrap Before customisation. So far our Backbone application has had a rudimentary interface.

Developers frequently ask me if Dart is ready for the real world. Well, of course, that depends on the application. Check out this short video in which Joe Fernandez and I not only show that Dart can be used in the real world, we also show that it can be used to take the tedium out of watering your lawn!

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In episode #125 (March 8, 2013), Robots Podcast interviewer Sabine talks with Kate Darling, an Intellectual Property Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab. She recently wrote a paper on "Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots" where she asks if we should consider protecting robots that connect with us on a social level.

Building a Class that Raises Events in a Specific or UI Thread - CodeProject

Introduction This is not a tutorial on threading or thread safety; there are too many of those available out there. If you have never used Invokes or do not know about thread contexts or synchronization, please start with an internet search of "Avoiding InvokeRequired".

SQL Server Database BackUp using C# ~ Dot Net World : A blog for dot net programmers

There are various ways to take the SQL Server database backup. You can take the database backup using SQL Server backup wizard or using SQL Server BackUp Database statement. Here I am going to describe how to take the SQL Server database backup programatically using C# and SQL Server Management Objects (SMO).

Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. You can propose links to us on Twitter (@YDN) or try bookmarking them on delicious with the tag "forydntt".

By Michael Manoochehri, Developer Programs Engineer, Cloud Platform Google BigQuery is designed to make it easy to analyze large amounts of data quickly. Overwhelmingly, developers have asked us for features to help simplify their work even further.

Editor's Note: This post comes from Amy Frampton, Windows Azure Senior Marketing Manager. Successful Korean game designer Webzen faced a formidable task in determining the required capacity and performance of the IT infrastructure in preparation for the global launch of Arctic Combat, a competitive game which users around the globe can fight together with a feeling of patriotism and fellowship.

The Dart VM, a new virtual machine that runs Dart code, can now take advantage of SIMD instruction sets found in common CPUs. This means that Dart apps, when running in the Dart VM, can perform significantly faster for some algorithms. Code written with the new SIMD APIs still compiles to JavaScript, but won't see the same speed boost.

Thanks to our friends in China, who seem to have cracked open a shipment of Samsung's Galaxy S4s before everyone else, we can now reveal two of the S4?s key new features: Floating touch and SmartPause. SmartPause is an extension of SmartStay - a face-tracking feature that debuted with the Galaxy S3.

AS IF being eyes in the sky weren't enough, drones are now getting arms and legs, too. With their newfound limbs they are learning to grab objects in mid-flight or even change a light bulb.

Google has pulled the popular Adblock Plus and other ad-blocking apps from the Google Play store. To be clear, that means Adblock Plus and its ilk are no longer available for Android users. So far nothing has changed in the Chrome Web Store, which still hosts plenty of ad-blocking add-ons for Google's web browser.

Amazon RDS now supports 3TB and 30,000 Provisioned IOPS per database instance

Amazon RDS now supports 3TB and 30,000 Provisioned IOPS per database instance We have three pieces of good news to share. First, you can provision up to 3 TB in storage and up to 30,000 IOPS for your database instances (maximum realized IOPS will vary by engine type).

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Upgrading from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Upgrading from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012 Are you developing, testing, or migrating to SQL Server 2012? Your task just got easier with Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

The jsonresult of date time is serializing to the string /Date and some integer value starting with 1970 . The problem is that the browser interprets this value accordingly to the LOCAL TimeZone - and thus the same date is going to be interpreted with a difference.

The second maintenance release in the Spring 3.2.x line is now available via Maven Central, the SpringSource repository, or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes over 100 bugfixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

It's March 14 (3.14): happy Pi Day, everybody! Steve Purchase, a dentist, found himself alone with a dental X-ray machine and a Raspberry Pi one evening, so he did the obvious thing. I thought the small images he produced were really interesting, and asked him if he could come up with any higher resolution pictures.

New Discounts On Spring Trainings Worldwide | SpringSource.org

SpringSource has also launched a on the following classes: Please use the following discount code in the referral field during the registration process: Discount Code: springcustomerpromo The final discount is a discount launched by the official SpringSource VATC Partner in India, SpringPeople: April 08 - 11: Core Spring in Delhi,

We don't know much about what goes on in Apple's data centers. But we do know is that Apple is spending mountains of money on a new breed of hardware device from a company called Fusion-io.

Ahead of its official release later today, the first high-resolution photos of the Samsung Galaxy S4 have leaked from China. The images not only confirm the rumored hardware specs (4.99-inch 1920x1080 display, 8-core Exynos Octa SoC), but they also confirm the Galaxy S4's dimensions (it's super-thin!), the battery size, and introduce some interesting new software features -- such as S Pen...

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