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Monday, 18 March 2013

Researchers create self-powered artificial retina from optoelectronic polymer | ExtremeTech

Interfacing neurons to electronics has already given us tremendous technologies including brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and deep brain stimulation (DBS). The bridges to optical interfaces for the brain have already begun to be built -- first with optogenetics, and more recently, directly through optically active materials.

Today's post comes from Doug Fritz from the Data Arts Team of the Google Creative Lab. In this post, Doug shares a small open source project for reading and writing to the Google App Engine Datastore with JavaScript.

See Magento's Partner Pavilion for the first time at Internet Retailing Expo on March 20-21! Internet Retailing Expo is the only opportunity in the UK to blend marketing with technology, logistics with customer facing design, mobile with instore experience - the full range of skills and capabilities to sell in the multichannel era.

Although PhantomJS is extremely useful, there are times when you don't want to include the dependency in a server-side project. I've considered making my own mini REST services for such cases, so the "heavier" dependencies like PDF generation or PhantomJS are split off into their own self-contained projects.

New Mobile Capabilities Added to Analytics, Social, Advertising, Targeting and WEM Solutions SALT LAKE CITY, Adobe Summit, The Digital Marketing Conference - March 6, 2013 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it has introduced new mobile marketing capabilities to each of the five solutions in the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

SALT LAKE CITY, Adobe Summit, The Digital Marketing Conference - March 6, 2013 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today opened Adobe Summit, The Digital Marketing Conference, where more than 4,500 digital marketers and senior leaders representing the world's top brands have gathered to learn the latest about marketing trends, share best practices, and network with industry experts and peers.

Adobe VP Dana Rao testifies against Patent Assertion Entity profiteers; stresses importance of software patents SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 14, 2013 - Dana Rao, vice president of Intellectual Property and Litigation at Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE), today appeared before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet.

Two weeks ago, Charlie Shrem got hacked and robbed, Bitcoin-style. Criminals got into a brokerage account used by his transaction services company, Bitinstant, and emptied more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency out of the account. Bitcoins are the digital equivalent of cash, and they can be traded instantly and anonymously.

Last week's Cracking the Code had a segment featuring a very familiar little computer, and a guy with a weather balloon whom you might just recognise. Isn't it interesting how much more technical detail this kids' show goes into compared to some of the adult tech news coverage we see on TV?

Consoles have historically been seen as banner products for the companies that manufacture or design their hardware. Nvidia's original Xbox win was a sizable windfall for the company in 2002-2003 and the GPU designs of the Xbox 360 and PS3 (built by AMD and Nvidia respectively) were topics of intense discussion when those consoles were new and exciting.

Coming Soon To The UK: Yahoo!'s Hack Day Europe on April 27-28 Hack days are one of the many ways we actively promote innovation through experimentation around Yahoo!. With that, Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) is thrilled to announce the upcoming Yahoo! Hack Europe: London on April 27-28, 2013.

Chevrolet this month resurrected the riches-to-rags Chevrolet Impala with a dazzling iteration of the My Link infotainment system and an adaptive cruise control system that sets new bang-for-the-buck standards. Owing to GM's weak finances the past few years, Chevrolet was forced to build a less complex, more approachable music, navigation and phone interface.

Web applications are so very convenient. But there's always a rub. When you move your life onto the web, you lose control of your data. And - who knows? - your web app of choice may even vanish from the face of the earth while you're still using it.

For the latter half of this past week, the focus at Robohub.org has been the use of robots in warfare. This event was launched with an editorial including links to related posts, both new and older, and to responses from the Robots by Invitation panel of experts to the question "How will robots shape the future of warfare?"

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha6. This release fixes some bugs from alpha5. It also serves as a delay for our next release, beta1, integrating ZendOptimizer+ OPCode cache which is not ready yet to be merged. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

A week of symfony #324 (11->17 March 2013) This week the Locale component was refactored into two new Symfony components: Icu and Intl. Meanwhile, the first speakers of the Symfony Live Portland 2013 conference were announced and the full schedule for the Symfony Live Paris 2013 conference was published.

On Lollipuff, the founders employ a combination of human expert authenticators with a patent-pending process to ensure that the goods on the site are real. For now, Lollipuff focuses on three of the most designer brands on auction sites: Chanel bags, Christian Louboutin shoes, and Herve Leger dresses.

15:20, Electronics/Robotics A still image comparison between the eagle and the quadrotor. Credit: Justin R. Thomas(Phys.org) -Scientists working on robots often concentrate on how to mimic the shape and movements of animals that show exceptional efficiencies in varied tasks; a recent team accomplishment takes a page out of the study of eagles, in order to create a flying robot that can similarly swoop down and grab objects the way an eagle can fish with its natural claws.

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.

I run a startup. Lean and mean, 16-hour days. Everything we do is ours. When we thought of hiring another person, it quickly became clear that we could not handle an employee. We could not pay for insurance, supervise them, offer them a stable salary.

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