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British Library exhibit to highlight the sounds it’s fighting to save
The content below is taken from the original (British Library exhibit to highlight the sounds it’s fighting to save), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Last year, the British Library began the "Save our Sounds" project, with the aim of accelerating the digitisation of millions upon millions […]
Bye Bye Solaris, it seems.
The content below is taken from the original (Bye Bye Solaris, it seems.), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. For readers of A Certain Age, this may bring a tear to the eye. Reports have been circulating of the decision by Oracle to lay off a significant […]
Uber Movement’s traffic data is now available to the public
The content below is taken from the original (Uber Movement’s traffic data is now available to the public), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Back in January, Uber announced that it’s giving urban planners access to a website with traffic data of their cities. Now that website […]
Amazon Announces Updates to AppStream 2.0, including Domain Join, Simple Network Setup, and More
The content below is taken from the original (Amazon Announces Updates to AppStream 2.0, including Domain Join, Simple Network Setup, and More), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. In a recent post on the AWS blog, Amazon announced several updates to their application streaming service, AppStream 2.0. […]
Deadline 10 – Launch a Rendering Fleet in AWS
The content below is taken from the original (Deadline 10 – Launch a Rendering Fleet in AWS), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Graphical rendering is a compute-intensive task that is, as they say, embarrassingly parallel. Looked at another way, this means that there’s a more or […]
Use shared USB over network remotely with USB Redirector Client
The content below is taken from the original (Use shared USB over network remotely with USB Redirector Client), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Flexible USB sharing over a network enables others on the same network to get remote access to a single external drive. This is […]
Yamaha’s smart pianos work with Alexa and teach you how to play
The content below is taken from the original (Yamaha’s smart pianos work with Alexa and teach you how to play), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Of the many things we expected to see at IFA 2017, cutting-edge instruments weren’t one of them. But Yamaha is using […]
Google’s Hollywood ‘interventions’ made on-screen coders cooler
The content below is taken from the original (Google’s Hollywood ‘interventions’ made on-screen coders cooler), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Google operates a “Computer Science in Media Team” that stages “interventions” in Hollywood to steer film-makers towards realistic and accurate depictions of what it’s like to […]
UK.gov unveils six areas to pilot full-fat fibre, and London ain’t on the list
The content below is taken from the original (UK.gov unveils six areas to pilot full-fat fibre, and London ain’t on the list), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Government has revealed the first six areas in Blighty to trial speeds of 1Gbps in a £10m pilot, as […]
Samsung’s ‘AI-powered’ washer is just trying to save you time
The content below is taken from the original (Samsung’s ‘AI-powered’ washer is just trying to save you time), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. IFA 2017 isn’t all about smartphones, smartwatches and cute droids. The event is also a chance for companies to showcase their latest innovations […]
OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest August 26th – September 1st
The content below is taken from the original (OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest August 26th – September 1st), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Succesbot Says! ttx: Pike is released! [21] ttx: Release automation made Pike release process the smoothest ever [22] PTG Planning Monasca (virtual)[1] […]
I wrote a Snake game in PowerShell. (Requires Version 5.1)
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Cummins unveils an electric big rig weeks before Tesla
The content below is taken from the original (Cummins unveils an electric big rig weeks before Tesla), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Sorry, Tesla, but someone just stole the thunder from the electric big rig you were planning to unveil this fall. The engine giant Cummins […]
New – Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows
The content below is taken from the original (New – Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows. An Elastic GPU is a GPU resource that you can […]
Automate.io is a free automation tool and IFTTT alternative
The content below is taken from the original (Automate.io is a free automation tool and IFTTT alternative), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Nowadays, everyone is working smarter with various new technologies and automation tools are quite new in the market. Although IFTTT has been available for […]
Lost Alan Turing letters found in university filing cabinet
The content below is taken from the original (Lost Alan Turing letters found in university filing cabinet), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. A huge batch of letters penned by British cryptographer Alan Turing has been found at the University of Manchester. Professor Jim Miles was tidying […]
Watch 1,069 Dancing Robots Claim New World Record
The content below is taken from the original (Watch 1,069 Dancing Robots Claim New World Record), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. A Chinese toy maker has broken the Guinness World Record for “most robots dancing simultaneously.” Yes—While you toil away at your desk for eight hours […]
Raspberry Pi HAT spins up RFID and NFC
The content below is taken from the original (Raspberry Pi HAT spins up RFID and NFC), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Eccel’s rugged “Raspberry Pi-B1” Raspberry Pi HAT add-on provides an RFID B1 module for enabling short-range RFID or NFC communications at 13.56MHz. Eccel Technology, which […]
R-Comp release !DualHead
The content below is taken from the original (R-Comp release !DualHead), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. If you own a Titanium based machine you may have noticed that it has 2 video output ports. If you plug a monitor into the right port (as you look […]
Drones will watch Australian beaches for sharks with AI help
The content below is taken from the original (Drones will watch Australian beaches for sharks with AI help), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Humans aren’t particularly good at spotting sharks using aerial data. At best, they’ll accurately pinpoint sharks 30 percent of the time — not […]
OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest August 19th – 25th
The content below is taken from the original (OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest August 19th – 25th), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. SuccessBot Says rosmaita: Glance is merging like crazy today! welcome back jokke_ , and thanks flaper87, mfedosin , abhishekk, and smcginnis [1] coolsvap: devs, […]
Revisting the old Acorn magazines online
The content below is taken from the original (Revisting the old Acorn magazines online), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Over the years, a lot of high quality magazines have been produced. Most of these are no longer actively published but their back catalogue still contains interesting […]
Lie in Your Out-of-Office Reply to Avoid Spending Time on Your Phone During Vacation
The content below is taken from the original (Lie in Your Out-of-Office Reply to Avoid Spending Time on Your Phone During Vacation), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Vacations are for unplugging, but unplugging can be hard when you carry your work around on your device in […]
New wearable tracker can transmit vital signs from a soft, tiny package
The content below is taken from the original (New wearable tracker can transmit vital signs from a soft, tiny package), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Body sensors have long been bulky, hard to wear, and obtrusive. Now they can be as thin as a Band-Aid and […]
Affordable Raspberry Pi 3D Body Scanner
The content below is taken from the original (Affordable Raspberry Pi 3D Body Scanner), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. With a £1000 grant from Santander, Poppy Mosbacher set out to build a full-body 3D body scanner with the intention of creating an affordable setup for makespaces […]