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Friday, 22 March 2013

Another Fantastic IIT Kharagpur! · YDN Blog

Photo credit to events.india Now that HackU has reached Kharagpur for the 3rd year in a row, students are able to identify technical challenges facing the Web industry (e.g., Local, Social, Media, Commerce, Connections, and Content platforms).

People around the world are using the web as a platform to both showcase and create amazing local culture. In the last six months, Chrome has played host to some of Indonesia's finest up-and-coming artistic talent with the Chrome Open Spaces project.

I once had a professor who claimed that Viagra was the logical endpoint of all science. "We did it!" he exclaimed, one day in class. All those millions of years ago, he argued, the first real attempt at a medical experiment probably came in the form of a thick-browed Neanderthal chewing on a leaf and hoping for some aphrodisiac effects.

NASA has signed a one-year contract option with Jacobs Technology, Inc., of New Orleans to continue manufacturing support and facilities operations at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Wrapping up our summer, times 4

The jQuery Mobile team is happy to announce 1.2.1. This is the first maintenance release for 1.2 and contains fixes throughout the library. Try it now!

When Google announced Reader would shutdown, nearly all its competitors saw a massive traffic spike. Most were well-funded startups with resources to scale, but NewsBlur, a one-man operation, managed to more than double its user base in a few short days without all the startup trappings.

News from the Python community: Python trademark dispute resolved! The Python Software Foundation thanks the community for their support during our European Union trademark dispute. We have settled the dispute and have now obtained the trademark within the EU, and our opponent has ceased using the Python name for their services.

Twenty years ago today, Intel launched the Pentium 60 CPU and changed the computing world for ever. Believe it or not, a revision of the original Pentium core still lives on today, in Intel's bleeding-edge, 50-core Xeon Phi -- a plug-in coprocessor that ushers us towards exascale supercomputing.

10:20, Electronics/Robotics For easy calculation a robot simplifies the image of a human to a skeleton of dots and lines. The volume around the hands is examined to see what object the human is using. Credit: Saxena Lab(Phys.org) -Robots can observe human behavior and-like a human baby-deduce a reasonable approach to handling specific objects.

Capturing was a key feature of Mobify.js 1.1, our framework for creating mobile and tablet websites using client-side templating. We have since reworked Mobify.js in our 2.0 release to be a much more modular library that can be used in any existing website, with Capturing as the primary focus.

Massimo and I had the chance to visit a Labitat makerspace in Copenhagen. I had to thank to let us in on a non-visit day and move underground, where the lab is.

The year is 1974, and Arthur C. Clarke is standing inside one of those cavernous computer centers that held the massive machines of the day.

Latest experiments in improving low-light camera performance

Some of us like the big screen and some love the physical keyboard. The BlackBerry 10 platform embraces both form factors. As developers, we have a few more things to consider when targeting different form factors. The aim should be to create the best app for each type of device.

THE sound of a violin bow across strings can be exquisite. But bowing well is hard to master. Now that smooth grace is encapsulated in a new kind of electronic instrument. Developed by Dylan Menzies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, the O-Bow uses optical sensors to track the movement of a real violin bow across a groove in a metal instrument.

In this post we are going to see how we can do CRUD operations with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco Micro ORM. What is PetaPoco? Petapoco is a tiny ORM developed by topten software. As per them it's a tiny, fast, single-file micro-ORM for .NET and Mono.

Design and Development: Swiss Lab Builds Modular, Amphibious Robot | Robotics Trends

More Design and Development stories We have seen our fair share of nature-inspired robots, from a water strider bot that walks on water to a faster-than-Usain-Bolt robotic cheetah that runs on land, and we never cease to be amazed by the technological advances we gain from merely mimicking what already exists in nature.

More Service and Healthcare stories This robot vomits so we don't have to. Larry the projectile vomiting robot spews all over the place, and it's for a good cause. Larry was created by microbiologist Catherine Makison-Booth at the United Kingdom's Health and Safety Laboratory in the Occupational Hygiene Unit.

More Security and Defense stories This is an overview of leading manufacturers of military robots compiled in March 2013 by the Global Robotics Brain. The Global Robotics Brain is a product that business intelligence consultant, Wolfgang Heller, started to keep track of the robotsphere.

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