Thursday, 28 March 2013

Tobii Gaze Control of StarCraft 2 (watch video)


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Qt Project Needs Mirrors for the New Download Service


The Qt Project is currently using a content delivery network based solution for distribution of releases. We have been working to improve distribution of Qt open-source packages and

Digital shrinks find depressed faces and body language

Automatic systems that analyse gestures and facial expressions may soon be helping psychologists pick up the easily missed symptoms of depression<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientis

Unreal Engine 3 ported to JavaScript and WebGL, works in any modern browser

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The Webmaster Academy goes international

Webmaster level: All



Since we launched the Webmaster Academy in English back in May 2012, it

Guest post from Code Club: Raspberry Pi factory visit

Liz: Do you remember those snippets of film from factories they used to show on educational kids' shows when we were little? I have a very lucid memory of an episode of Playschool which (via the arched window) took you through the making of a rubber glove, and another segment featuring the manufacture of with chocolate biscuits.

Do you own your genes, or can Big Pharma patent them?

Somebody should check and make sure that Kim Dotcom hasn't started funding any research in genetics. Maybe those guys from the Pirate Bay, too. With a paper that must send chills of fear and vindication down the spine of every internet freedom fighter, researchers from Cornell University this week presented evidence that genetic copyright is a "direct threat to genomic liberty."

Match and raise telematics: Hyundai boosts services, BMW makes first decade free

Automakers have turned to telematics to differentiate themselves from the competition. Most recently, Hyundai added a suite of electronic car-care handholding on top of its Blue Link services such as the current emergency crash notification. Hyundai calls it Hyundai Assurance Connnected Care. That and Blue Link are free for the first three years of ownership.

Deployment Best Practices: Monitor your resources

When you're preparing a MongoDB deployment, you should try to understand how your application is going to hold up in production. It's a good idea to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to managing your deployment environment so that you can minimize any surprises once you're in production.

Mozilla, Epic Bring Unreal 3 Gaming Engine to the Web


Taking a stand on open source and patents

At Google we believe that open systems win. Open-source software has been at the root of many innovations in cloud computing,

JS Sequence Diagrams, Webflow CSS Playground and more

Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. <img src="http://ydn.zenfs.com/blogs/1/tech-thursday-205x85.png" alt="" title="tech-thursda

Tech Article: Real-Time Topic Modeling of Microblogs

Real-Time Topic Modeling of Microblogs by Yogesh Tewari and Rajesh Kawad This article explores the challenge of real-time extraction of topics from a continuous stream of incoming microblogs or tweets. Learn how to apply LDA to tweets for topic modeling.

Create a custom user control for Windows 8 using XAML and C#

As you may know, you can easily develop native applications for Windows 8 using XAML and C# (Or VB.NET by the way ). Among a lot of other things, XAML allows you to create custom control to factorize your UI.

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

NASA, SpaceX Discuss Dragon Mission to Space Station

NASA and SpaceX will host a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 28, to discuss the Tuesday return of the company's Dragon spacecraft from a cargo mission to the International

CodePlex Daily Summary for Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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.

ET deals: Stackable discounts on Alienware m14x gaming laptop

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The model on sale today foregoes the pric

WebRTC Data Channels for Great Multiplayer

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Petit four, the quick and easy online CakePHP baking tool

In our Web agency we have been glad to use CakePHP for almost two years as it has really helped us speed up our projects.However from time to time there are still some tasks that feel a bit slow or ti

Education Awards on Google App Engine

Last year we invited proposals for innovative projects built on Google's infrastructure. Today we are pleased to announce the 11 recipients of a Google App Engine Education Award . Professors and their students are using the award in cloud computing courses to study databases, distributed systems, web mashups and to build educational applications.