Thursday, 4 April 2013

Hyundai's E4U vehicle is an egg on training wheels

Hyundai's new personal motor vehicle comes with headgear that serves as the "roof." (Credit: Hyundai) Segways are run of the mill these days. To turn heads with an unusual vehicle, you need something like the Hyundai E4U. Recently unveiled at the ongoing 2013 Seoul Motor Show, the E4U is a one-seater that can move easily in any direction.

5 Steps to Benchmarking Managed NoSQL - DynamoDB vs Cassandra

This is a guest post by Ben Bromhead from Instaclustr



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NASA Administrator Statement on Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the first Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) results announced Wednesday at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Scientific Expedition

NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Scientific Expedition WASHINGTON -- A versatile NASA airborne imaging radar system is showcasing its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during a month-long expedition over the Americas. A NASA C-20A piloted aircraft carrying the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) is wrapping up studies over the U.S.

Media Invited to NASA Commercial Partner New Rocket Rollout April 6

Media Invited to NASA Commercial Partner New Rocket Rollout April 6 WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- News media are invited to cover the scheduled Saturday, April 6, morning rollout of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares launch vehicle to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.

NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Technology Proposals to Enable Future Missions

NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Technology Proposals to Enable Future Missions WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 295 research and technology proposals from 216 American small businesses for negotiations that may lead to contract awards worth a combined $38.7 million.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Adds Support for Variables in Access Control Policies


We are excited to announce that we have extended the access policy language to include support for policy variables. This new feature allows you to define general purpose policies that include va

Enabling Full Keyboard Access On The Mac

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Touchy-Feely with DOM Events: Rethinking Cross-Device User Interaction

There have been numerous ways for users to interact with web pages on mobile phones. Historically, users navigated the mobile web by pressing physical buttons (arrow keys, soft keys, etc.), while some devices required a stylus. In the last several years, devices with touch-enabled screens have been adopted at such a rapid rate that touch interaction has become ubiquitous.

HackU 2013 at IIT Madras

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JS Sequence Diagrams, Webflow CSS Playground and more

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Open-Captions, Using Closed Captions as Meta Data for ASL

From the blog YDN Blog: This post originally appeared on the Yahoo! Accessibility blog. What is Open-Captions? According to research, over 90% of deaf children have hearing parents who "frequently do not have fully effective means of communicating with them". The American Sign Language (ASL) ... Continue reading ?

How Flickr Optimized Performance of Their New Yahoo! Homepage Photo Widget

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Another Fantastic IIT Kharagpur!

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Cross-Site Scripting, CSS Creatures and more

From the blog YDN Blog: Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. StyleDocco generates style guide documents from your stylesheets by parsing your stylesheet comments through Markdown. Anton Molleda of Plain Concepts talks about ... Continue reading ?

Understanding ARIA Widgets

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Collaborate, Learn, Innovate!

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Focus Feedback

From the blog ydnl: This post originally appeared on the Yahoo! Accessibility blog. The browser provides visual feedback when a control receives focus. The default visualization usually matches how focus is rendered on the host platform: On Windows this is a subtle dotted outline, ... Continue reading ?

Mobile Guidelines, MD5 Test and more

From the blog ydnl: Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. Making games can be a lot fun, but it can also be a tremendous amount of work. A look at making progress ... Continue reading ?

Clip your hidden content for better accessibility

From the blog ydnl: This post originally appeared on the Yahoo! Accessibility blog. There's a balance between creating a clean, simple visual design and providing accessible content and functionality. One common solution is to provide text to screen readers that is hidden via CSS. ... Continue reading ?