HP will integrate Leap Motion controllers with PC

The Leap Controller tracks people's fingers and hand motions as they gesture, swipe and point at their computer screens. Applications developed for it let people control games, work on office tasks, paint pictures or design 3-D objects. At first, the controllers will be bundled with PCs and other devices from Hewlett-Packard Co.

OKCupid partners with Coinbase (YC S12) to become the latest Web service to support Bitcoin

The newest addition to the growing list of companies to support Bitcoin - which includes Reddit, Mega, WordPress.com, Expensify, Namecheap, the Internet Archive, and countless others - the dating site has partnered with Y-Combinator-backed Coinbase, a platform for buying and selling the digital currency, to expand its payment options.

jQuery Roundup: TyranoScript, Sly, FPSMeter

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nginx-1.3.16 development version has been released.

2013-04-16

nginx-1.3.16
development version has been released.

Leap Motion strikes bundling, embedding deal with HP

Starting this summer, the San Francisco startup will have access to HP's sizable market. But Leap Motion won't yet say which devices will feature its gesture-control technology. (Credit: Leap Motion) Leap Motion has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard to bundle and embed its 3D motion control technology in some of the computer giant's devices.

qbs reached mile stone 0.3

Qbs, our alternative build tool, has reached a new mile stone. Since the last one in December, qbs has had the following impro

Huffington Post video segment on the Pi (and Eben!)

When Eben was at PyCon last month, he spent some time with the Huffington Post. Here?s the video that resulted from that. If you?re having trouble watching it here (there are some geographical rest

Massive WordPress Attack Targets Weak Admin Passwords

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Developing for Google Glass: Mirror API, HTML5 and how to change your mind

Google Glass is around the corner it's time to prepare our services for this new device type. Reading the specs for the first time can be a little overwhelming; therefore I'll try to make a quick go through the Glass app development process, the mirror API and its HTML5 support.

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services Now Available

The following is a post from Bill Hilf, General Manager of Windows Azure Product Marketing at Microsoft . I'm excited to announce that today Microsoft released Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. Windows Azure is Microsoft's public cloud platform and Windows Azure Infrastructure Services is a new Windows Azure service that lets customer easily migrate existing applications and infrastructure to the cloud.

Unexploded Boston bombs could yield vital clues

An analysis of exploded bomb fragments could yield vital clues to help identify the perpetrator of the fatal twin bombings of the Boston marathon on 15 April. If enough of the bombs survived the blast then it may be possible to find out more about their design, firing system, and the type of explosive and detonator they used, says Roland Alford, of Alford Technologies in Chippenham, UK, which makes bomb disposal equipment.

Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!

Today?s blog post diving into the waters of the MySQL buffer pool is a cross-post from Groupon?s engineering blog

Testing the Micron P320h

The Micron P320h SSD is an SLC-based PCIe solid-state storage device which claims to provide the highest read throughput of any server-grade SSD, and at Micron's request, I recently took some time to put the card through its paces, and the numbers are indeed quite impressive.

The Pi balloon: a Swiss mystery

If you've been wondering what happened to PIE, the Raspberry Pi camera-equipped balloon Dave Akerman launched on Saturday (with considerable hinderance from me, Eben and JamesH), Dave's blogged about the launch and its aftermath.

Use the internet to defuse gang culture

Street gang members often lead parallel lives online - and that makes cyberspace a great channel for reaching out to them Your research is part of a Google Ideas project about using the internet to counter extremism. What's the thinking behind that? Google Ideas is a think tank founded in 2010 to tackle human challenges using technology.

Stanford Robot Block Party 2013 - (watch video)

Stanford Robot Block Party 2013

Debugging ASP.NET Web API with Route Debugger

Tutorial and Tool written by Troy Dai (Twitter @troy_dai) with assistance from Rick Anderson (Twitter @RickAndMSFT) Search for "asp.net web api routing" on stackoverflow, you'll find many questions. How exactly does Web API routing work? Why doesn't my route work? Why is this action not invoked? Often time it is difficult to debug route.

Testing Orchard drivers

If you?ve ever tried to test Orchard part drivers, you may have been blocked by the fact that the methods on drivers are protected. That, fortunately, doesn?t mean they are untestable. Those methods a

Talking about hacking secondary school education in Spain at Coderdojo conference

Coderdojo is a global collaboration providing free and open learning to young people, especially in programming technology. Last weekend David Cuartielles from the Arduino team went to Slane Castle in Ireland to make a brief presentation to the CoderDojo conference about the Castilla project and how we are hacking Secondary School education in Spain.

Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo begins next Monday and runs April 22-25, 2013. Attendees will see great keynotes from leaders in the industry including representatives from Oracle, Amazon Web Services, HP, Continuent, and Percona.