Is there an Uncanny Valley of Machine Intelligence?
Roboticists know a lot about the uncanny valley, that uncomfortable place in utility and appearance where robots look and act almost—but... more »
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Rackspace Launches Fanatical Support for Developers
Rackspace has launched Rackspace Developer Support, an extension of its "Fanatical Support" customer support that is... more »
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HumanAPI
Personal data creation is growing exponentially — 21% of Americans already digitally track their heart rate, active minutes, sleep,... more »
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Australian Scientists Develop Printable A3-Sized Solar Cells
Solar energy sounds like a dream, but buying and installing the equipment necessary to harness the power of the Sun can be expensive. But... more »
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Eurovision 2013: Final predictions
This is post is part of a series of posts describing a predictive model for the Eurovision Song Contest. The full set of posts can be found here.
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Welcome Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew - Y Combinator Posthaven
YC has a bunch of announcements about people coming and going so I thought I'd do them all at once.
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Developer-friendly Twitter alternative App.net hits 100,000 registered users, 9 months after launch
App.net, the Twitter-style platform launched with great ideological pomp last August following a successful crowdfunding campaign, has... more »
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Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year
In 2011, Alcatel-Lucent had American e-commerce on the ropes. The French telecom had sued eight big retailers and Intuit saying that... more »
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Fricative Computing
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, was a 17th century French Parisian aristocrat, remembered for her... more »
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The Road to Making - From Starter League to Developer
In college I studied economics. I recommend it to anyone who feels comfortable with the idea of knowing a lot about the world's woes and... more »
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Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘With Friends'
Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site’s name, because it... more »
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Lions, and Tigers, and OP Codes, OH MY! – Hacking Java Bytecode for Programmers (Part2)
AT THE END OF MAY I AM INVITED TO SPEAK AT A LOCAL USER GROUP ABOUT JAVA BYTECODE HACKING. I FIGURED IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO GET MY... more »
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Label.css - Label every thing!
Just include the CSS file and add "label" class and "data-label" to your code. Then start positioning.
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How We Built eBay’s First Node.js Application
For the most part, eBay runs on a Java-based tech stack. Our entire workflow centers around Java and the JVM. Considering the scale... more »
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Meteor on Windows
This page is being transitioned to provide an overview of the Unofficial community supported options for both getting Meteor running... more »
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Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft
A criminal serving a five-year sentence "for supplying gadgets to an organized crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers" has... more »
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fish shell 2.0
fish 2.0 is now released! fish is a fully-equipped command line shell (like bash or zsh) that is smart and user-friendly. fish supports... more »
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One Week of WeatherSignal
It’s been just over a week since we launched WeatherSignal, we billed it as “the most ambitious Weather crowdsourcing project ever” –... more »
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Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop
Backdoor took screenshots, sent them to attackers.
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Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1B, All-Cash Deal for Tumblr
According to sources close to the situation, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sunday night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 billion... more »
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What’s New in Node.js and libuv this Week – May 17, 2013 - Debugger, Load Balancing and Crypto Performance
Welcome to this week’s wrap up of the week in Node and libuv covering May 9 through May 15. The purpose of this blog is to recap a subset... more »
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Zynga Ports Cocos2D-X to Emscripten
If I could snap my fingers and wake up the following morning with any one problem at work just solved, you know what it would be?
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Mark 1 FORTH Computer
This computer has no microprocessor. The CPU is discrete TTL logic.
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Yahoo, Tumblr tie-up in the works?
Where there's smoke, there's fire -- maybe. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly seeks to attract a younger, hipper demographic and Tumblr... more »
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Add one touch credit card payments to your app in 15 minutes
The Braintree iOS SDK was upgraded last month to include two great new features. A drop-in payment form and Venmo Touch. To demonstrate... more »
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