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If you are interested in the latest technologies and advancements in computing, you must have read about the $9 computer CHIP. This miniature powerhouse machine is being pegged as the Raspberry Pi killer. CHIP has almost same functions and power of a basic computer. It has 1GHz R8 ARM processor power, 512MB DDR3 RAM, and 4GB […]
Today is the Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 release day. These software from the house of Microsoft have finally graduated exiting the preview stage and are now ready for download. Microsoft’s flagship development environment Visual Studio has got a major update in the form of Visual Studio 2015. Around the world, millions of developers use […]
This is the 3rd post in the series covering top open source projects by most popular companies in the world. Today, we are covering Netflix which has an incredible open source culture. To get a sense of what they do in open source, take a look at their GitHub Repo. They’ve released over 50 open source […]
Microsoft Azure cloud platform is very popular among Linux users and now Microsoft has announced that it will be offering limited support to selected Linux distros and open source platforms. If you are finding it too had to believe, the exact words from Microsoft are: “limited support for major Linux distributions, third party and open […]
Welcome to the second post of the series covering top open source projects by most popular companies in the world. Last time, we covered Facebook’s contribution to open source community and in this article, we are going to highlight most popular open source projects made by twitter engineering team. Twitter engineers use, contribute to and […]
Artificial Intelligence is getting embedded in our lives on a regular basis in form of various speech recognition software, digital assistants like Cortana or, the famous deep dreaming robot of Google – that turns pictures and video into horror movies. All this intelligence comes from a software called neural networks. Recently, a programmer shared a […]
Virtual Machines are software that are used to run other operating systems within a pre-installed operating system. This self-contained OS runs as a separate computer that has no relation to the host OS. VirtualBox is an open source cross-platform software that can help you to run multiple guest operating systems on a single computer. Recently, the […]
To benefit the hard-working app developers and programmers, Amazon is starting a cloud-based service named AWS Device Farm. AWS Device Farm will help developers to test their applications on real devices i.e. physical cellphones and tablets. For the time being, iOS app testing is not included in AWS Device Farm and this service will be […]
This is the first article of the series where we will be publishing about top open source projects made by big blue chips like Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Netflix etc. We want our readers to be aware of the technologies and projects that help these giants to make continuous improvement irrespective of scale, security and […]
Do you know the meaning of term software rot or bit-rot? It’s the gradual deterioration in the performance of a software and its responsiveness that makes it slow, outdated and unfit for use. Over the time, heaps of code gets accumulated and it becomes less difficult to understand due to hardware upgrade. For about past […]
Google introduced its concept of material design and its specification to make the user interfaces more beautiful and uniform on devices all screen sizes. To make the websites more Material Design friendly, Google has released Material Design Lite (MDL) which comprises of vanilla CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Google Developers have introduced this tool that will […]
Lately, we have seen some of the most exciting developments in the futuristic manufacturing industry. Irrespective of you being a specialized professional or just a consumer – you have to agree that the rise in the production of 3D printed prosthetic devices took the equipment to some good usage, and all the credit goes to […]
Enough about storing your data on world’s smallest 128GB memory card or some other invention poised to be the next HDD-killer. Today, I’m going to tell you how an innovative DIYer preserved his files safely in his own food store, just like you store your vegetables and fruits. DIYer Matt Reed used few household items […]
Do you want to code, find a direct way to communicate with the like-minded people and get some type of mentorship? Are you facing difficulties like time and money constraints? Y Combinator backed startup Livecoding.tv tries to address the same issue. Livecoding.tv was in beta since this February and it was launched officially last week. […]
Mark Zuckerberg vows to make Internet and Facebook available in remote communities through LASERS — Facebook Laser Beam is coming. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s head, is planning to make Facebook available in the most remote areas on different parts of the earth by equipping satellites with lasers. The social network head plans to establish hi-tech data cannons equipped […]
Remember those rumors about Anonymous hacktivists creating their own social media? Well, they aren’t! However, some privacy advocates are indeed working on a platform dedicated to protecting your privacy and they have called it Minds.com. Over the past couple of years, online privacy has become one of the major concerns among Internet users throughout the world. The issues […]
Google Apologizes after its Image Recognition Software Mistakenly Tags Black couple as Gorillas. A computer programmer Jacky Alcine saw his and a friend’s images labeled as “gorillas” in an album on Google Photos. The search engine giant explains that the mislabeling occurred due to a fault in its image recognition software. Google reportedly, is “appalled” […]
Today the Linux Foundation announced a new initiative called R Consortium- a group to unite the users of the open-source R programming language. Microsoft announced that it is joining it along with Google and more as a founding member. Apart from Microsoft and Google, the other founding members are Oracle, HP, Tibcom, RStudio and Alteryx […]
You must have read our coverage on programming language and its development. If not, I would recommend you to go through it once. There are very interesting articles on Top Programming Languages on GitHub, Highest Paying Programming Languages and many more. This article is about a new programming language called Racket-lang which is gaining a lot of attention […]
SmartSpecs are wearable glasses developed by Startup VA-ST using augmented reality so that visually impaired could see clearly once again. A University of Oxford based Startup VA-ST has created a wearable through which legally blind will be able to see again. The wearable is called SmartSpecs and it is technically like a head-worn computer that […]
Facebook’s new Algorithm powerful enough to identify you even if you aren’t looking at the camera. Facebook’s AI/artificial intelligence lab introduced an algorithm at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference earlier this month that can locate you in a picture with 83% accuracy. The catch is that it can judge your identity even if […]