Laravel 5.3 RC1 has been released
Laravel 5.3 has been under heavy development and we’ve all been waiting for the release with great anticipation. The first release candidate is now released and available for everyone to start...
View ArticlePage Dewarping
Flattening images of curled pages, as an optimization problem.A while back, I wrote a script to create PDFs from photos of hand-written text. It was nothing special – just adaptive thresholding and...
View ArticleBCC – Tools for BPF-Based Linux Analysis
README.mdBCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples. It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Packet Filters),...
View ArticleU.S. Judge Rejects Uber’s Proposed $100M Settlement with Drivers
Updated Aug. 18, 2016 10:05 p.m. ETA federal judge has rejected a proposed $100 million settlement between Uber Technologies Inc. and drivers in two states, reopening the debate over the car-hailing...
View ArticleIntel Optane and 3D Xpoint Updates from IDF
At Intel Developer Forum this week in San Francisco, Intel is sharing a few more details about its plans for their Optane SSDs using 3D XPoint memory.The next milestone in 3D XPoint's journey to being...
View ArticleMachine Learning Unconference
Machine learning is moving incredibly quickly. To keep up, many practitioners spend several weeks a year at conferences. However, conference presentations are all on work submitted months prior,...
View ArticleNASA Data Portal
The Dev PortalThe Developers Portal has documentation on our Application Programming Interface (APIs), code snippets for building apps, visualizations, and more. Click below to get started with our...
View ArticleOrganisms might be quantum machines
If there’s any subject that perfectly encapsulates the idea that science is hard to understand, it’s quantum physics. Scientists tell us that the miniature denizens of the quantum realm behave in...
View ArticleTCP Puzzlers
August 18, 2016 - by Dave PachecoShare: It's been said that we don't really understand a system until we understand how it fails. Despite having written a (toy) TCP implementation in college and then...
View ArticleNew batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long
An MIT spinout is preparing to commercialize a novel rechargable lithium metal battery that offers double the energy capacity of the lithium ion batteries that power many of today’s consumer...
View ArticleThe Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
This is the first of a multi-part series explaining the fundamentals of deep learning by long-time tech journalist Michael Copeland.Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is...
View ArticleHow scams and hoaxes are spread on Facebook? and video example
Latest widespread death hoax of Jaden Smith flooded Facebook, last week. It infected thousands of Facebook accounts in only few days. This time, the victim of a scam was a young actor Jaden Smith....
View ArticlePHP the Wrong Way
PHP - The Wrong WayIn the world of PHP programming a set of trends are massively being propagated by some people (in their books and on websites) as “Modern PHP” while all other approaches are frowned...
View ArticleGitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2.0 is now available
We're pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio is now available. You can install it directly from the Tools and Extensions gallery in Visual Studio, as well as...
View ArticleDept of Education to experiment with financial assistance for coding boot camps
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is inviting eight selected partnerships between institutions of higher education and non-traditional providers to participate in the EQUIP (Educational...
View ArticleSatellites auto detect buildings in OpenStreetMap
Satellites auto detect buildings in OpenStreetMapWe won first place in the NGA Maps Actually Hackathon this weekend. We analyzed thousands of satellite images to automatically detect missing buildings...
View Article'Flash Boys' IEX stock exchange opens for business
At mutual fund giant Capital Group, investment managers study stocks, looking to buy when they’re underpriced and sell when they’re overpriced. That’s how the downtown L.A. firm has made healthy...
View ArticleFrom Chrome Apps to the Web
Since then, we’ve worked with the web standards community to enable an increasing number of these use cases on the web. Developers can use powerful new APIs such as service worker and web push to build...
View ArticleMySQL founder tries a new software licensing model
When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses. MySQL...
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