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Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara
SANTA CLARA — Oracle this week moved to lay off about 450 employees in its Santa Clara hardware systems division, according to a letter sent to the Employment Development Department.The news comes as...
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Chuck E. Cheese's, Silicon Valley Startup: The Origins of the Chain (2013)
You may not know this, but Chuck E. Cheese's -- yes, the pizza place -- has its origins as firmly planted in the soil of Silicon Valley as Apple, HP, or Intel. In fact, it sprang from Nolan Bushnell's...
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Container Tabs
lightweight persistent contexts that isolate sites from one anotherDescriptionIndividuals behave differently in the world when they are in different contexts. The way they act at work may differ from...
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Anonymous E-mail Server Admin Interrogated at U.S. border and equipment seized
After my trip in Hamburg, Germany, for the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress, I left Germany for the United States for a short vacation to visit family and friends. Upon my arrival in the United...
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The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
In the age of Facebook, it has become far easier for campaigners or marketers to combine our online personas with our offline selves, a process that was once controversial but is now so commonplace...
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San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?
“Everybody talks about children being our future,” said Norman Yee, a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. “If you have no children around, what’s our future?”As an urban renaissance has...
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We Will Miss Antibiotics When They’re Gone
PhotoA microbiologist working with tubes of bacteria samples in an antimicrobial resistance and characterization lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.Credit David...
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Internet Quantitative Social Science: Insights from a Trillion Observations
(Submitted on 19 Jan 2017)Abstract: With the large-scale penetration of the internet, for the first time, humanity has become linked by a single, open, communications platform. Harnessing this fact, we...
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OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough
I recently finished a Go package to generate and handle OpenSSH keys. For posterity and the sake of having notes on how to do this, I’m going to describe how the keys are stored, and talk about...
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Embedded Python/NumPy in MonetDB
Python is one of the most popular languages in Data Science. It is a flexible scripting language that is easy to use and has a large amount of available statistical libraries. When we're doing...
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SIP-Pi: SIP Answering Machine on Raspberry Pi
README.mdsipcall - Automated calls over SIP/VOIP with TTSsipserv - Answering machine for SIP/VOIP with TTSDependencies:Copyright (C) 2012 by Andre Wussow, desk@binerry.demajor changes 2017 by Fabian...
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AskTheSenate.org helps you email Senators about Cabinet appointments
Built By Volunteers for Ask The USWe are not affiliated with the US Senate, but seek to improve civic engagement.If you have any questions, complaints, or corrections, please contact us at...
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XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
When someone talks about AI, or machine learning, or deep convolutional networks, what they’re really talking about is — as is the case for so many computing concepts — a lot of carefully manicured...
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Removing Edge Magazine DRM
Edge Magazine is one of the oldest gaming magazines in the world. It is famous for the quality of its reviews, all of which were available online up until a few years ago, when their website was...
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Samsung Blames Battery and Design Flaws for Galaxy Note 7 Fires
During the almost hourlong presentation, Samsung offered an extensive technical explanation of the problems with the battery but little insight into the breakdowns that caused the company to fail to...
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Foxconn Weighs $7B U.S. Factory with Apple, Nikkei Says
by January 22, 2017, 1:49 PM ESTFoxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou told reporters in Taipei the company is considering a joint investment with Apple Inc. for a display manufacturing facility...
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Being confidently programming language agnostic
In my first few days as a freshman, I met a classmate who claimed that he could code in any programming language I could name. Astonished, I challenged “what about that unreadable esoteric language...
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Free Software Foundation Priority Projects
In 2016, after receiving feedback from about 150 free software community members, the High Priority Projects committee recommended extensive updates to the FSF High Priority Projects list.The High...
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All United Airlines flights grounded due to a computer outage
All of United Airlines' domestic flights were grounded for more than two hours Sunday night because of a computer outage, the Federal Aviation Administration said as scores of angry travelers sounded...
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