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Sunday, 12 May 2013

A week of symfony #332 (6->12 May 2013)

This week, Symfony 2.3.0 released its second and last beta version. Among other features, this version supports the <a href="http

Ever since they were invented over a hundred years ago, cars have been on the cutting edge of technology. It seems that every time you see a car commercial on TV, they're announcing the addition of a new gadget or a new feature.

Instructables user aaronthomen posted a couple of videos about his ingenious robotic hand and a controller he designed and built for less than $200. The first video shows the hand in action and the second one explains how he made it.

An impromptu spacewalk triggered by the sight of ammonia flakes drifting past a window of the International Space Station wraps up with a replaced pump and a plan for "additional detective work."

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Universal Air got its start with a $15,000 Kickstarter campaign that earned $220,000. Now it wants to make drones that can autonomously follow you around. Without an Internet signal. Imagine carving your way down a particularly challenging slope, your skis kicking up clouds of snow, trees flying by, your death-defying stunts captured perfectly on camera.

WordPress 3.6 Beta 3 is now available! This is software still in development and we really don't recommend that you run it on a production site - set up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you'll want "bleeding edge nightlies").

CakePHP 2.3.5 has just been released to fix a critical issue with how the webroot property in CakeRequest is handled that could potentially lead to XSS attacks on certain pages. In the following days we will offer a full description of the vulnerability and how it can be exploited, after some reasonable time has passed for our users to upgrade.

This successful Kickstarter project lets you make anything from printed circuits to brass earrings and molds for precision parts. (Credit: Kickstarter) What if you could easily add custom-designed circuits to DIY projects like 3D-printed stuff? Here's a small mill that can churn them out with precision and power.

Say hello to the droneliner. A business plane has flown an 800-kilometre round trip in civilian airspace without the pilot onboard operating the its controls. Instead, the plane flew itself like an outsized drone with continual monitoring of its autonomous manoeuvres performed by a pilot based on the ground.

ASP.NET has included support for "friendly URLs" for a while now. ASP.NET MVC has always supported friendly URLs and more recently, so has Web Forms. That means if you don't want to have

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.

News from the Python community: PyOhio 2013 Call for Proposals due June 1st PyOhio (July 27-28, 2013, Columbus, OH, USA) has released its Call for Proposals, due June 1. See http://pyohio.org/call-for-proposals/. Python 3.2.4 and 3.3.1 have been released Python 3.2.4 and Python 3.3.1 final have been released.

Staying centered

The following is a post from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft.

There are many advantages to living in a world t

A week after the release of the first Symfony 2.3 beta, here is the second and last one.

If you want to help us, please, test this version on your existing projects or play with it on a new

The State Department has successfully demanded the removal of the files from Defcad. The Pirate Bay has picked up the slack. (Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET) For those who worry that even 24 hours without the ability to download 3D-printed gun blueprints is too much, fret no more: The Pirate Bay is on the case.

Friday, May 10, 2013 at 9:00AM Hey, it's HighScalability time: Nanoscale: Plants IM Using Nanoscale Sound Waves; 100 petabytes: CERN data storage Quotable Quotes: Geoff Arnold: Arguably all interesting advances in computer science and software engineering occur when a resource that was previously scarce or expensive becomes cheap and plentiful.

NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Status HOUSTON -- NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT).

NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Marshall HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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