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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

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Now, Pramod Kumar Meher of the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore and co-workers at Central South University in Changsha, China, have developed an efficient new method to implement an important step in signal processing, called the discrete cosine transform (DCT).

When you think of a desktop PC, you probably think of something that eats up a ton of floor/desk space. You have to find that one magical spot with enough square footage, airflow, and cable access for you to put that clunky box in place.

FEW things are more frustrating than waiting for a revolutionary technology to arrive. None more so, perhaps, than quantum computers, which promise to solve problems impervious to conventional methods. Their development has inched a long one qubit at a time. For onlookers, it has seemed like a long and very slow crawl.

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

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.

Scaling Computer Science Education

Now that application-only authentication is released, we wanted to give you an update on the ongoing gradual retirement of API v1.

Even as U.S. telcos drag their feet and make excuses for not rolling out high-speed fiber optical connections, researchers are pushing fiber technology forward, breaking records in speed, distance, and efficiency. Next week, at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in Anaheim, California, scientists will gather to discuss their latest breakthroughs.

SHOT six times in a "hit" allegedly planned by prisoners, Robert Johnson knew just who to blame: the cellphone service providers that failed to block calls made inside the jail. Last week, he announced that he plans to sue 20 of these companies.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the latest attempt by the US legislative branch to hinder online freedom, just received a significant blow from concerned citizens. On the official White House petition site, an anti-CISPA petition has reached 100,000 signatures.

CHIMP will be able to perform complex, physically challenging tasks through supervised autonomy. A remote, human operator will make high-level commands controlling the robot's path and actions, while the robot's on-board intelligence prevents collisions, maintains stability and otherwise keeps the robot from harm.

Oracle has announced that it will acquire Nimbula, a company founded by former Amazon vice president of engineering Chris Pinkham. Nimbula sells software to companies that want to build Amazon-style cloud services inside their own data centers. In typical Oracle fashion, the tech giant didn't say much about the acquisition.

For almost a year, we've been recording weekly shows for YouTube API developers as part of the Google Developers Live series, hosted on the Google Developers YouTube channel. Now, if you want to get just YouTube API-related videos, check out the new YouTube for Developers channel .

Googlers around the Globe

Editor's Note: This post comes from Amy Frampton, Windows Azure Senior Marketing Manager. Initially funded in January 2009 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, VisibleBrands has introduced technology built on Windows Azure Cloud Services that turns retail into a plannable media channel, enables brands to electronically deliver coupons to the supermarket shelf-edge, and offers shoppers savings at the "moment of decision" as they browse the aisles.

Thanks to the enthusiastic response from the Magento Ecosystem, we have sold out of registrations for the third year in a row! While we are thrilled to make this announcement, we are also aware that some of you missed out on your opportunity to secure a ticket.

Today, we're announcing an update to timeline to help people express what's important to them. We're introducing better ways for apps to appear on timeline, improved controls for users, and streamlined tools for setting up Open Graph.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 9:57AM For the last few months I've been programming a system in Go, so I'm always on the lookout for information to feed my confirmation bias. An opportunity popped up when Iron.io wrote about their experience using Go to rewrite IronWorker, their ever busy job execution system, originally coded in Ruby.

Versions (GitHub: 3rd-Eden / versions, License: MIT, npm: versions) by Arnout Kazemier is a module for creating a content delivery network. It was designed to address performance concerns when using Node for serving static assets when compared to servers that support sendfile like Nginx.

Nanophotonics researchers at Arizona State University have created the world's first electrically powered room-temperature nanolasers. These lasers are the single most important step towards building computer chips that use light instead of electricity for ultra-fast and efficient on- and off-chip communications.

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