Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App
Updated Nov. 15, 2016 2:47 p.m. ETWal-Mart Stores Inc. is discouraging store workers from downloading a smartphone app designed by OUR Walmart, an organization that advocates for higher pay and other...
View ArticleNew Material Technology to Enhance Efficiency in Artificial Photosynthesis
Kawasaki, Japan, November 07, 2016Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a new thin-film process technology that increases oxygen-producing efficiency by more than 100-fold. This...
View ArticleScientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions
A P.E.I. farmer has helped lead to a researcher's discovery of an unlikely weapon in the battle against global warming: a seaweed that nearly eliminates the destructive methane content of cow burps and...
View ArticleWhy does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
You’re out to lunch with someone you’ve known for a few years. Together you’ve held parties, celebrated birthdays, visited parks and bonded over your mutual love of ice cream. You’ve even been on...
View ArticleNew for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
I am thrilled by all of the excitement that I see around AWS Lambda and serverless application development. I have shared many serverless success stories, tools, and open source projects in the AWS...
View ArticleCS294: Program Synthesis for Everyone
Ras Bodik and Emina Torlak Fall 2012, 310 Soda Hall, TT 11-12:30 Office hours (Ras): Wed 1-2pm, Fri 4-5pm, 565 Soda Hall (in Par Lab) This course extends the invited tutorial that we gave at CAV 2012....
View ArticleQuit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
PreoccupationsBy CAL NEWPORTI’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve...
View ArticleSymantec to Buy Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLock for $2.3B
Updated Nov. 20, 2016 10:26 p.m. ETComputer-security-software maker Symantec Corp. has agreed to acquire LifeLock Inc., a seller of identity-theft protection services, for $2.3 billion in cash, the...
View ArticleLibcaer – Minimal C library to access, configure and get data out of AER sensors
READMElibcaer ==== Minimal C library to access, configure and get data out of AER sensors, such as the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) or DAVIS cameras. REQUIREMENTS: Linux, MacOS X or Windows (for...
View ArticleList of spacecraft in the Culture series
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original...
View ArticleIs Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political System: We Hope So
The presidential election of 2016 is a watershed event in American and global politics. This is true for a number of reasons. What interests me most as a technologist working with blockchain,...
View ArticleBringing Down Millions of WordPress Sites
I’m going to take you guys back to a time when I was doing some client work.I was at the time working on becoming a somebody in the WP Dev community. I attached myself to a really awesome designer...
View ArticleIntel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border
November 20, 2016Nicole HemsothIn Supercomputing Conference (SC) years past, chipmaker Intel has always come forth with a strong story, either as an enabling processor or co-processor force, or more...
View ArticleKen's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence
/* coherent noise function over 1, 2 or 3 dimensions */ /* (copyright Ken Perlin) */ #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> #define B 0x100 #define BM 0xff #define...
View ArticleWatch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
If you don’t watch where you’re going on the internet, you might be headed down a dark alley before you know it.Like a lot of big websites, we use Google Analytics to keep track of traffic on TNW. A...
View ArticleEasyPost is hiring more developers
Don't See Your Specialty? Apply NowSan Francisco, CAWe're a fast growing company with lots of roles. If your specialty isn't listed but you think you could help, drop us a line!Day-to-day...
View ArticleIRS wants info on all Coinbase users between 2013 and 2015
As first reported by Motherboard, the Internal Revenue Service is seeking the personal data of all U.S. Coinbase users who transacted between 2013 and 2015. In a statement, a Coinbase spokesman said...
View ArticleOracle buys Dyn
Product Roadmap Oracle is currently reviewing the existing Dyn product roadmap and will be providing guidance to customers in accordance with Oracle's standard product communication policies. Any...
View ArticleRuby 2.3.3 released
Posted by nagachika on 21 Nov 2016Ruby 2.3.3 has been released.This release contains a bug fix about Refinements and Module#prepend. The mixture use of Module#refine and Module#prepend to the same...
View ArticleShow HN: Generate Google Slides from markdown
README.mdGenerate Google Slides from markdown & HTML. Run from the command line or embed in another application.This project was developed as an example of how to use theSlides API.While it does...
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