Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Elgg 1.8.15 Released

Elgg 1.8.15 has been released with almost 50 bug fixes. We again had participation from a lot of developer

Deal with it: 3D Printed guns are reality

At the Inside 3D Printing conference in New York, Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson argued that politicians can't stop innovation, and 3D printing makes homemade guns inevitable. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) NEW YORK--For months, a debate has raged in the media and on Capitol Hill about whether or not society (and the law) should allow 3D printed guns.

3D-printed guns are inevitable

At the Inside 3D Printing conference in New York, Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson argued that politicians can't stop innovation, and 3D printing makes homemade guns inevitable. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) NEW YORK--For months, a debate has raged in the media and on Capitol Hill about whether or not society (and the law) should allow 3D printed guns.

RIM expects keyboard BlackBerry in US in late May

Research In Motion Ltd. said Tuesday that all four major U.S. carriers will carry the Q10. It is available May 1 in Canada. A delay in selling the new keyboard BlackBerry has complicated RIM's efforts to hang on to customers attracted by Apple's iPhone and devices running Google's Android system.

How Much Sweat It Takes From Zero to Billionaire

If you were to guess whether the top 100 richest people in the world got their money from some else or made money themselves - you would be right to guess that most of them made their own money. But how many of those self-made billionaires were in worst situation than you when they started?

Node v0.10.5 (Stable)

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It's OK, I've got Lawdingo (YC W13)

If you've not heard about Lawdingo, you're missing out. One reputable source declared it "the way of the future," and we're not about to argue with ourselves. Lawdingo lets a prospective client connect with an attorney and get an immediate legal consultation online with an eye toward building an ongoing attorney-client relationship.

Robot abuse is a bummer for the human brain

As loveable toy dinosaur Pleo gets both hugged and strangled in the name of science, two studies suggest that we're hardwired to sympathize with them. But how deeply can people feel for robots? (Credit: Honda) When they take over, robots will surely take advantage of studies suggesting we pathetic meatsacks are hardwired to sympathize with them.

Accelerating web applications with OpenCL

The Web Computing Language (WebCL) enables web applications to
execute functions on the host's graphics processor, dramatically
accelerating many types of data-processing r

NASA Opens Media Accreditation for California Solar Mission Launch

NASA Opens Media Accreditation for California Solar Mission Launch WASHINGTON -- News media planning to cover the launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission on June 26 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California should apply for accreditation by June 18.

Space Station Communications Test Bed Checks Out; Experiments Begin

Space Station Communications Test Bed Checks Out; Experiments Begin WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station.

AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)

We are delighted to announce that the AWS Management Console is now available for access to the AWS GovCloud (US) region!



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First-ever Braille smartphone could hit stores this year

Touch screen transforms images and text into touchable patterns, enabling users to interpret facial expressions, maps, and graphics. (Credit: Sumit Dagar) An interaction designer who makes sci-fi short films has spent the past three years developing what he says is the world's first Braille-enabled smartphone.

Data Centers | Facebook Data Center Empire to Conquer Heartland in 2014

Middle America will get it own Facebook data center by the end of next year. At least, that's the plan. On Tuesday, in the wake of press reports that Facebook was building a massive computing facility outside of Des Moines, Iowa, the social networking giant confirmed the news, saying it will break ground on the data center this summer and begin serving traffic around the fall of 2014.

Dutch PHP Conference 2013



Ibuildings is proud to organise the seventh Dutch PHP Conference on June 7 and
8, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 6. Both programs will be
completely in Englis

EnchantMoon tablet aims to be your digital pen and paper

With slick promos channeling Apple's "1984," the EnchantMoon wants to be a different kind of tablet. It's perfect for those who still love to write with a pen.

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Virtual, squishy creatures evolve to run using evolutionary algorithms

A research team led by Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab has created a computer algorithm that can be used to witness virtual creatures evolving their squishy, muscle-like features in order to teach themselves to walk. The team incorporated concepts from developmental biology and how nature builds complex animals -- from jellyfish to jaguars.

NASA Announces 2012 Small Business Industry Awards

NASA Announces 2012 Small Business Industry Awards WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday recognized three companies as winners of the agency's 2012 Small Business Industry Awards (SBIA). The Small Business Industry Award Program highlights a large business prime contractor, a small business prime contractor and a small business subcontractor for outstanding support to NASA in achieving the agency's mission during the fiscal year.

Nowhere to hide: The next manhunt will be crowdsourced

A special selection of content every week, giving you access to the latest news in science

Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 packaging issue and re-release of RPMs

By In our last 5.5 series release, we included a regression in the RPM packaging that caused the server not to restart after upgrading - instead, the server would remain stopped after the upgrade was completed regardless of its state before updating.

HTML5 tags or ARIA, which is better?

From the blog YDN Blog: This post was originally published on the Yahoo! Accessibility blog. One aspect I haven't seen fully addressed in the argument for using HTML5 tags, especially when considering methods to bullet-proof methods, is user benefit. Yes, the new elements in HTML ... Continue reading ?

Facebook Secrets of Web Performance

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 9:25AM This is a repost of part 1 of an interview I did for the Boundary blog. Boundary: What is Facebook's secret sauce for managing what's got to be the biggest Big Data project, if you will, on the Web?

MySQL Community Server 5.7

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

MySQL Installer 5.7

MySQL Installer provides an easy to use, wizard-based installation experience for all your MySQL software needs. Included in the product are the latest versions of:

A Recap of the First Quarter of 2013

The first few months of 2013 brought a number of changes to the Twitter platform. In case you haven't kept up with our recent announcements, here are some key highlights. The Retirement of API v1 Several major milestones relating to the deprecation of API v1, which was announced last fall, have occurred during the first quarter of 2013.

Rights group launches campaign to ban 'killer robots'

11:52, Electronics/Robotics A global rights group launched a campaign on Tuesday to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans.

Rights group launches campaign to ban 'killer robots'

11:52, Electronics/Robotics A global rights group launched a campaign on Tuesday to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans.

SpaceX hovering Grasshopper rocket reaches new heights

SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper rocket launches, goes farther than ever before, hovers, and lands vertically to the soundtrack of "Ring of Fire." (Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) Last month at SXSW, SpaceX founder Elon Musk showed off a video of the SpaceX Grasshopper rocket rising 24 stories into the air and returning safely back to the ground.

WordPress 10th Anniversary Tees

In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary celebrations, we've put a special 10th anniversary tshirt in the swag store at cost --- $10 per shirt plus shipping. They'll be on sale at this price until the anniversary on May 27, and they'll start shipping out the wek of April 29.

Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 release

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 ? high-quality components to add enterprise-gra

Glittering Sydney launch for Samsung S4

10:49, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets The sails of one of the world's most iconic buildings, the Sydney Opera House, were lit up with images shot by ordinary Australians Tuesday for the glitzy "blue-carpet" launch of Samsung's new phone.

Beautiful bug biscuits to tempt the squeamish

This is a cookie-making machine with a difference. Designer Susana Soares and a team of food scientists and engineers have designed a 3D printer that makes biscuits from insect flour. Just follow the recipe: grind up bugs and mix with icing butter, cream cheese or water to form the right consistency to go through the 3D printer's nozzle.

3D printer makes tiniest human liver ever

Lab-grown livers have come a step closer to reality thanks to a 3D printer loaded with cells (see video above). Created by Organovo in San Diego, California, future versions of the system could produce chunks of liver for transplant.

Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines - (watch video)

As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it's simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy. A riveting case for why big innovations are ahead of us ...

Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth - (watch video)

The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic debt and growing inequality, which could move the US into a period of stasis we can't innovate our way out of.

First Firefox OS Developer Phones Sell Out


This Week in Spring - April 23rd, 2013

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring!
Here in San Francisco, we're experiencing the first fits of life and beautiful weather typical of spring time. Fit

AMD targets high-growth, embedded markets with new AMD embedded G-series System-on-Chip

09:29, Electronics/Hardware AMD today announced the new AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on the AMD next-generation "Jaguar" CPU architecture and AMD Radeon 8000 Series graphics. The new AMD Embedded G-Series SOC platform further signifies a strategic push to focus on high-growth markets outside the PC industry, with an emphasis on embedded systems. The announcement was made at this year's DESIGN West expo.

SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays: Implementing DDD with Spring and vFabric, Batch Processing and Integration on Cloud Foundry

NanoTrader is a VMWare working reference implementation featuring SpringSource best-practices throughout the application stack. The functioning high-performance trading application includes Spring MVC with both web and mobile UI's, Spring Integration, RabbitMQ, GemFire, Hibernate using SQLFire and/or Postgres. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a set of software development tools and best practices for crafting a business strategic initiative in a core domain model.

Humans feel empathy for robots: fMRI scans show similar brain function when robots are treated the same as humans

How do we really feel about non-sentient objects on a human level? A recent study found that humans have similar brain function when shown images of affection and violence being inflicted on robots an

Shapeways, the Etsy-like 3D printing marketplace, raises $30M

Andreessen Horowitz is leading the round as Shapeways builds out its marketplace for consumers to build and sell 3D-printed products. (Credit: Shapeways) The 3D printing movement is well under way -- albeit with some hype built in -- and Shapeways, a marketplace where people can design, create and sell their own products, is leading the charge.

Shapeways, the Etsy of 3D printing, raises $30M

Andreessen Horowitz is leading the round as Shapeways builds out its marketplace for consumers to build and sell 3D-printed products. (Credit: Shapeways) The 3D printing movement is well under way -- albeit with some hype built in -- and Shapeways, a marketplace where people can design, create and sell their own products, is leading the charge.

Turning drawings into a music game

Gilda Negrini and Riccardo Vendramin, two young product designers from Italy, wrote us to share their last work, designed during a course called Autoproduzioni at Politecnico of Milano. It's called MusicInk, it runs on an Arduino Duemilanove board, and gives an alternative method to teach music to children.

Hackspace security system

NESIT is the New England Society of Information and Technology in Connecticut, and they have a made a security system for their hackspace that gives us terrible feelings of envy.

Humans feel empathy for robots: fMRI scans show similar brain function when robots are treated the same as humans

From the T-101 to Data from Star Trek, humans have been presented with the fictional dilemma of how we empathize with robots. Robots now infiltrate our lives, toys like Furbies or robot vacuum cleaner

Humans feel empathy for robots: fMRI scans show similar brain function when robots are treated the same as humans

From the T-101 to Data from Star Trek, humans have been presented with the fictional dilemma of how we empathize with robots. Robots now infiltrate our lives, toys like Furbies or robot vacuum cleaner

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M1 released

Dear Spring Community,


I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.3.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).


Highlights from this milesto

XDT (XML Document Transform) released on codeplex.com

In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a simple and straight forward method of transforming web.config during publishing/packaging. This support is called XML Document Transform, aka XDT. It allows you t

jQuery 2.0 Released


Note: You can send your plugins and articles in for review through our contact form.

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BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Headless Apps

You can now check out the latest video in the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged series, where we give some more insight around our co

SpringSource Training Schedule: May 2013

If you are a Java developer looking to increase your Spring knowledge, vFabric Education by SpringSource is the place to start. We are providing several Spring trainings across the globe closely co

Remote Guidance of Untrained Turtles - (watch video)

Recently, several studies have been carried out on the direct control of behavior in insects and other lower animals in order to apply these behaviors to the performance of specialized tasks in an attempt to find more efficient means of carrying out these tasks than artificial intelligence agents.

New in Symfony 2.3: Use Sub-Networks to configure Trusted Proxies



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Model Binding in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

In my last post on ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms features I talked about the new strongly-typed data controls that are available and how you can now get Intellisense as you access object properties within a server control template. It's a great feature that you definitely need to check out if you haven't already.

Deploy a Secure ASP.NET MVC application with OAuth, Membership and SQL Database

@Dan Friedman - multiple DB contexts - combine them Yes, multiple contexts are allowed - and you're right, merge them so you can include users in your queries. To do this: 1. Delete the UsersContext class 2. Add the UserProfiles DbSet to your application's context 3. Update the InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.

Amazon Redshift and Amazon EC2 High Storage Instances available in EU West (Ireland)

We are thrilled to announce that Amazon Redshift and Amazon EC2 High Storage Instances are now available in EU W

Creating Unit Testable Applications in ASP.NET MVC - A Beginner's Tutorial

Introduction In this article we will talk about creating unit testable applications using ASP.NET MVC. We will also talk a little about test driven development and see how we can design and develop ASP.NET MVC application in such a way that they are easily testable.