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Monday, 4 March 2013

Phys.Org Mobile: Now Boston Dynamics' BigDog can lift and toss (w/ video)

video is available in the full version of this article (see link below)] As a BigDog video shows, the entire body goes to work with fancy step-work to throw fifty-pound objects over its shoulder, grasping a block with "jaws" and flinging it out of the way.

Howdy folks, Today I'm happy to be able share some more improvements we've made to the identity and access management capabilities in Windows Azure.

Want to know what this thing is? Here's a hint: it's a miniature inchworm. And it's quite possibly the fastest miniature inchworm robot in the world, even though it uses just one single motor. The "Mission: Impossible" music might be a bit much here, but the mechanical design is pretty clever: moving segments equipped with clamps alternately retract and extend, propelling the inchworm robot forward.

W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context. A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the document highlights changes since November 2012, including the advancement of HTML5 to Candidate Recommendation.

Photo credit to Alan L, and his cat) When your content is so riveting that your users can't take their eyes off the screen, the last thing you want is the screen dimming and breaking that immersion. Thankfully, BlackBerry 10 offers a simple API to keep the screen from dimming, which conveniently handles things like [...]

Layer Layer (GitHub: lovebear / layer, License: BSD, npm: layer) by "lovebear" is a module for creating proxies without changing existing code. Given a function, it can augment it with another function that will run first. The returned values from the new function will be supplied as arguments to the original function.

Symfony Live Berlin 2012: videos are now online! We're pleased to announce that all talks from Symfony Live Berlin 2012 are now available on SensioLabs' Youtube channel and as the previous Symfony Live videos, they are free! So if you missed the conference, here is your chance to watch the talks.

To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main manufacturing distributors, are releasing a limited edition of 1000 blue Raspberry Pis. These Pis are very cute: there's something really handsome about that blue.

NoSQL databases have made it possible to store more data faster and cheaper than ever before. Web giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook have come to depend on them in a big way. But they have some fundamental drawbacks that prevent them from handling many software applications. And FoundationDB wants to change that.

There's a new MagPi out: download it for free over at www.themagpi.com. This month's edition has a great mix of hardware and software projects. You can read from the cover what's on offer: my absolute favourite for this issue is this month's Scratch Patch, where you'll be using Scratch to draw Julia Sets.

Learn More How Infochimps refactored Cube, the Node.js time series visualization tool, to Terabyte Scale MongoDB and ASP .NET Session State Store Provider Solving A Curious Concurrency Case in the MongoDB Ruby Driver g Upcoming MongoDB Days MongoDC, March 11: 146/500 MongoDB Beijing, March 22: 7/275 MongoDB London, April 8:

Welcome to the Big Data era. A lot of people -- most notably computer companies -- talk about Big Data these days, but very few people seem to understand what it means. Enter Victor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier and their new book, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

Magento is coming to Internet World in Munich on March 19-20 for the first time with a Magento Partner Pavilion! Internet World, is one of the largest eCommerce trade fairs, exclusively for the B2B industry with over 8,000 attendees each year.

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.

YAPC::Europe 2013 in Kiev, week minus 23. A brief update | Andrew Shitov [blogs.perl.org]

There are a few small and big things that we did last week for the conference. Let us tell you about them. First of all, we signed a contract with the river cruise boat and are thinking now of the best possible route so that we can both see the incredible Kiev landscape from water and have enough time for the social part on board.

A week of symfony #322 (25 February -> 3 March 2013) This week Symfony 2.2.0 was released, setting the foundation for the new time-based release process. Moreover, Symfony 2.3 will be released within three months, being the first Symfony2 version with long term support.

Pimoroni's first anniversary competition has ended, and the entries have been sifted through: you can read all about the winner (and the entries that got an honourable mention) on their website. Well done all: we had fun looking at your entries with Paul at our birthday party on Friday.

Short algorithm, long-range consequences

At this year's ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm for solving graph Laplacians that is not only faster than its predecessors, but also drastically simpler.

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