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Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
The KY-O1L from the front. The KY-O1L from the back. The KY-O1L from two angles. The KY-O1L next to a credit card, for size comparison. The KY-O1L in a user's hand. A marketing image of the KY-O1L in...
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Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder to take legal action against Ecuador
Image copyrightPAImage caption Julian Assange has lived in Ecuador's UK embassy since 2012Julian Assange is to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his...
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Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM
This is part 3 of a series on creating a Twitch.tv-like live video streaming website. See Part 2 - The Application hereIt is sometimes desirable to have “protected” streams. These are video streams...
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The Joy of Haxe
I’m an ardent polyglot. Like many developers I write in various different languages and while respecting the serious intent of those who choose to specialise in just one, I’m also wary of all fanboys...
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Thalmic Labs ending sale of Myo armbands
A few years ago, as we were finishing up our final exams at the University of Waterloo, Aaron, Matthew and I got into a discussion about the evolution of human-computer interaction (as mechatronics...
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DNA may soon be used to store computer data
DNA IS THE oldest information-storage system known. It predates every other, from pencil and paper to computer hard drives, by billions of years. But attempts to employ it to store data generated by...
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Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds
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Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now
For weeks, computer scientist Siwei Lyu had watched his team’s deepfake videos with a gnawing sense of unease. Created by a machine learning algorithm, these falsified films showed celebrities doing...
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Researchers Prove Quantum Computers Are More Powerful Than Classical Computers
For the first time, an international team of researchers has proven that quantum computers offer a computational advantage over classical computers. As detailed in a paper published Thursday in...
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Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?
General Motors plans to roll out a robo-taxi service next year that will let urbanites hail a driverless Chevrolet Bolt. Ford is overhauling a dilapidated Detroit train station to become a tech hub...
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Erlang/OTP by Example
Erlang is a functional, compiled, dynamically typed, fault-tolerant and concurrent programming language. Erlang is an exotic language as it addresses concurrency different than mainstream programming...
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Art and Spirit in Mathematics: The Lessons of Japanese Temple Geometry (part I)
Temple Geometry faded from memory—a shameful episode best forgotten—but in recent years it has been rehabilitated. The surviving sangaku panels, about 900 of them, are being conserved, and the amazing...
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Raster Vision: A New Framework for Deep Learning on Satellite and Aerial Imagery
Azavea is pleased to announce the release of Raster Vision, a new open source framework for deep learning on satellite and aerial imagery.What is Raster Vision?Raster Vision is an open source framework...
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Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO
An easy to use header-only cross-platform C++11 memory mapping library with an MIT license.mio has been created with the goal to be easily includable (i.e. no dependencies) in any C++ project that...
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MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]
Offentliggjort den 20. okt. 2018Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning during the 1990s,...
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Understanding Quaternions
Understanding QuaternionsIn this article I will attempt to explain the concept of Quaternions in an easy to understand way. I will explain how you might visualize a Quaternion as well as explain the...
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Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy
One Thursday afternoon last month, dozens of fires and explosions rocked three towns along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts. By the end of the day 131 buildings were damaged or destroyed, one...
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How I Became a Metallurgist
Thanks to Jon Broida of Japanese Knife Imports and Anton Kudris for becoming Knife Steel Nerds Patreon supporters!When I was 16 I went with my father to the Las Vegas Custom Knife show. My interest in...
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Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity
This is the first article out of three in a series where I will go through what I consider to be the relevant Xorg feature set, and compare it, point by point, to how the corresponding solution or...
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Yeti DNS Project
“One World, One Internet, One Namespace” is the essence for the success of today’s Internet. The top level of the unique identifier system, the DNS root system, has been operational for 25+ years. It...
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