Monday, 6 May 2013

Swarm, Dookie, AngularJS Book

Swarm



Swarm (GitHub: gritzko / swarm, License: MIT) by Victor Grishchenko is a da

Controlling robots with your thoughts

08:32, Electronics/Robotics Student Angel Garcia use his eyes, eyebrows and other parts of his face to make the robot move. Credit: Thor NielsenThis is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.

Controlling robots with your thoughts

08:32, Electronics/Robotics Student Angel Garcia use his eyes, eyebrows and other parts of his face to make the robot move. Credit: Thor NielsenThis is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.

Command Line Rocks! Building BlackBerry 10 Apps Without An IDE

Don't get me wrong, I love our Momentics IDE. It provides many features that help to build apps rapidly including the QML previewer and code auto-completion. Sometimes, however, it can be extremely useful to know what's going on under-the-hood. This article will aim to explain how to build a native app from the command line, [...]

Data Centers | The Facebook Special: How Intel Builds Custom Chips for Giants of the Web

<img src="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/frank-frankovsky-whiteboard.jpg" alt="Data Centers | The Facebook Special: How Intel Builds Custom Chips for Giants of th

Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 released; bug fixes include pt-heartbeat &amp; pt-archiver

During the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 the week before last, we quietly released Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 with a few

New in Symfony 2.3: Buttons support in Forms



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Building a Real-Time Photo Gallery with Xamarin, SignalR, Azure, and WebAPI

Lately I've been throwing around the idea of writing an app for my wedding, and started thinking of what I'd want to put in it. One feature that I thought could be fun would be to let guests upload photos directly from the app and display them both to other guests and on our site in real time.

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Discover the MakerFaire Rome Ambassador kit with an Arduino Uno limited edition

The first european MakerFaire is coming up and the clock is ticking while the Call for Makers closes next 2nd of June. That's why we thought to launch a call for collaboration to local hubs, makerspaces and fablab into helping us spreading the word.

Meteor shower created by Halley's Comet to peak Sunday

NASA will provide live video of the event, as well as a live chat with Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. (Credit: Bill Cooke/NASA-MSFC) The meteor shower created by the debris trail of Halley's Comet will peak Sunday evening, and NASA is providing a live view of the celestial fireworks show.

Super tool: Canada enshrines robot space arm in museum

For 30 years, the Canadarm was the space shuttle's right hand in orbit. It now has a place in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

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A week of symfony #331 (29 April -&gt; 5 May 2013)

A week of symfony #331 (29 April -> 5 May 2013) This week, the first beta of Symfony 2.3.0 was released. The most relevant additions were the new comparison validators, the requirement of the debug component to maintain BC, and the possibility to log fatal errors in production.

Saturday, 4 May 2013

AI card game knows how to bend the rules

TEXAS Hold 'Em or Five Card Stud? There could soon be a better way to settle a poker night argument. Julian Togelius at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark and colleagues have developed an AI system that generates new card games from scratch.

Star-like cracks can reveal the speed of a bullet

PIECING together details of a car accident or crime scene could become a bit easier thanks to star-like cracks in glassy substances. These characteristic patterns can reveal the speed of the objects that made them. It has long been known that different materials require different amounts of energy to crack .

Ikea-bots build flat-pack furniture

ASSEMBLING flat-pack furniture can be a painful experience. Curses, misinterpreted instructions and "missing" components are all par for the course - if you're a human, that is. But harassed homeowners can take heart, thanks to a robotic duo that can assemble an Ikea coffee table, all by themselves, albeit rather slowly.

Superconducting hose transmits magnetic field

CALL it a magnet's answer to optical fibres: a hose that can carry magnetic fields a long distance. The strength of a magnetic field drops off quickly, which is why fridge magnets don't fly across the kitchen. Now, Carles Navau of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and colleagues have sent a field 4 centimetres.

Is there more to slacktivism than gesture politics?

SOME of the sheen has come off the belief that online activism can change the world. The social-media revolutions of the Arab Spring and the antics of hacktivist group Anonymous in opposing online censorship have diffused into "slacktivism" - changing a profile picture, or reposting a status update, to show support for a favoured cause.

Lethal DNA tags could keep innocent people out of jail

DNA so dangerous that it doesn't exist in nature has been given its first useful role - keeping innocent people out of jail. Several sequences of DNA not found in nature - probably because they are incompatible with life - were identified in 2007.

Friday, 3 May 2013

Google Glass can take photo with a wink

18:10, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets If you see someone wearing Google Glass wink at you, you might want to get out of the way because they're probably not flirting with you. A new app that's just been developed and released for the futuristic piece of technology lets users take a photo by simply winking an eye.

Google API infrastructure outage incident report

By the Google API Infrastructure Team





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