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Monday 29 April 2013

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.

NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of Houston will fund 23 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance

Last month, more than 300 mobile and desktop game developers joined our all-day event at GDC in San Francisco. For those who couldn?t attend, we?ve provided a summary of the sessions

The space plane hits Mach 1.2 as Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson sees "full space flight" by the end of 2013.

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More than half of healthcare providers interviewed for a new study said that if they were offered an assistant, they preferred it to be a robotic helper rather than a human. However, they don?t want r

Home | Tech | News No more sneaking peeks at toys in the mall: SideWays, a new eye-tracking device, will catch you at it. As soon as you walk up to it, it automatically starts tracking what you peer at - which could allow shop owners to show you adverts on a video screen for products that you seem interested in.

A powerful explosion in Prague, Czech Republic, has damaged an office building, leaving up to 40 people injured. The blast highlights the danger from ageing, leaky gas pipelines around the world. The blast occurred at around 08:00 GMT. It is not certain what caused it, but Czech police say it was most likely a gas leak.

With the upcoming release of BlackBerry Q10, there's never been a better time to bring over your BlackBerry Z10 game and start monetizing on the new form factor. In this post, I will be talking about various porting considerations and best practices to help you get started and ensure that your game runs the best [...]

Nilofer Merchant suggests a small idea that just might have a big impact on your life and health: Next time you have a one-on-one meeting, make it into a "walking meeting" -- and let ideas flow while you walk and talk.

NASA Expedition 35 astronaut and flight engineer Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station will conduct a live air-to-ground talk with students of Fredricksburg High School in Texas at 12:4

NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth.

NASA, Partners Solicit Creative Materials Manufacturing Solutions WASHINGTON -- NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike have issued a challenge to identify 10 game-changing innovations that could enable fabric systems to enhance global economic growth, drive human prosperity and replenish the planet's resources.

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 9:00AM This is a repost of part 2 (part 1) of an interview I did for the Boundary blog. Boundary: There's another battle coming down the pike between Amazon (AWS) and Google (GCE). How should the CTO decide which one's best?

The new set of features could provide even more help for owners of the Learning Thermostat by intelligently understanding users' environments better. (Credit: Lindsey Turrentine/CBS Interactive) With all of the 10 hottest years on record having come since 1998, it's hard to deny that things are getting hotter.

There is a perception in some tech circles that older programmers aren't able to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, and that they are discriminated against in the software field. But a new st

We're pleased to an announce the GA release of Spring Security 3.1.4

The release is available from the Spring

Victor sent in Packery (GitHub: metafizzy / packery, License: MIT/Commercial, bower: packery) from Metafizzy, which is a bin packing library. It organises elements to fit around the space available. Certain elements can be "stamped" into a specific position, fit an ideal spot, or be draggable.

The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 was April 22-25 in Santa Cla

Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in each booth? Wallboxes were an extension for a jukebox, making it more convenient to select music right from your table. Yo

Monty Meets Monty Monty Taylor says he wound up on the MySQL project because he shared a name with Monty Widenius. Widenius is the Finn who founded MySQL - the world's most popular open source database - and Taylor says that when he applied for a job at MySQL AB, the company that oversaw the project, it was his name that elevated his resume above the slush pile.

In Qt you can create multiple document interface (MDI) applications using a QMdiArea as the central widget. The QMdiArea widget serves as a window manager for the MDI windows. There are already functions available for tiling all the child windows into a tile pattern and for cascading them into a cascade pattern.

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