The content below is taken from the original (Humans – 1 Robots – 0: Mercedes deautomates production lines), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
In a surprise win for humanity, Mercedes Benz has announced that it’s ditching the robots used on its assembly line in favor of human workers because they can cope with the job better.…
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The prospective scale of the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to fill anyone looking from the outside with the technical equivalent of agoraphobia. However, from the inside, the view is very different. Looked at in detail, it is a series of intricate threads being aligned by a complex array of organizations. As with any new technological epoch, questions around shape, ownership… Read More
The content below is taken from the original (People don’t want big OpenFlow deployments, so let’s do small ones), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
OpenFlow looks like it has all the hallmarks of inevitable success: it fits into a broad stack of open networking protocols, it has lots of vendor support, it’s backed by the Linux Foundation, and it’s been under development since 2009.…
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Just as the USB port on your phone can serve as a serial connection, mass storage device, and a network connection, the Pi Zero can do the same. We’ve seen a few people turn the Zero into a single USB gadget, but what about turning the Zero into a USB HID device, network connection, and serial port all at the same time? That’s what [Tobias] did, and his method is even easier than the old one.
The old method of turning the Pi Zero into a USB device required the user to modify and recompile the kernel. Obviously, this isn’t an ideal solution. …read more
The content below is taken from the original (Google wants hard drives designed to store your cloud data), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Take a look at the hard drive in your desktop PC. It might hold terabytes of data, but the basic 3.5-inch design can be traced back to the early days of computing — not really relevant in an era when a lot of your content sits in the cloud, is it? Google wants to change that. It’s hoping to work with both the tech industry and researchers to design hard drives that are tailor-made for cloud-based storage. It wants to optimize the "collection" of disks instead of focusing on individual drives, and is more concerned about capacity and performance — the things that matter most in a bustling data center — over sheer reliability.
You shouldn’t expect any breakthroughs in the immediate future, since companies will take a while to implement Google’s ideas. Google is well-aware of the practical realities, though — while it’s pushing for physical changes (such as taller, grouped-together drives), it’s also suggesting near-term improvements like firmware updates. It might not be long before your internet services of choice run that much faster.
Source: Google Cloud Platform Blog
The content below is taken from the original (13 cheap (or free) online classes you should take to boost your digital skills), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
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We live in a digital world. Just look at where you’re reading this article right now — without that phone, tablet, or laptop in front of you, this content would never reach you.
Now, I’ll be honest and say that I’m old-fashioned, which is why I prefer using Post-its instead of Apple Calendars, holding a physical book rather than reading with a Kindle, or talking in person rather than through social media. But like everyone else, I’ve had to adapt to life’s changes — and quite honestly, it’s actually made me a lot more productive and efficient in everything I do. Read more…
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The content below is taken from the original (OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest Feb 13-19), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
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The content below is taken from the original (Thinking Different: Data Centers and IoT), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
The content below is taken from the original (Microsoft Launches Plumbago, A Paper App Competitor That Lets You Sketch & Handwrite Notes), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Microsoft’s Office suite already has a popular note-taking app with OneNote, but today the company is turning its attention to how note-taking should work on tablets that support stylus and touch-based input. The company has now released Plumbago, a digital notebook application for Windows 8.1 and 10 tablets that allows users to handwrite text, highlight, plus sketch and draw using… Read More
The content below is taken from the original (Ford Sync 3 is also heading to Europe this summer), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Ford is apparently launching the Sync 3 connected car system this summer not only in the US, but also in Europe. The voice-activated 8-inch infotainment center can easily find establishments for you — all you need to do is press a button and say "I need a coffee" or "I need gas petrol." And since the automaker baked both Android Auto and Apple Car Play support into the system, you can pair it with either an iPhone or an Android device.
Ford has added five additional European languages* to Sync 3’s knowledge bank in preparation for its debut. The company has also installed localized versions of Emergency Assistance, so drivers and passengers can initiate emergency calls in the country’s own language. Sync 3 will initially be available in Europe aboard the Mondeo, the S‑MAX, the Galaxy and eventually, the Kuga SUV. It will make its first appearance in the continent on the new Kuga at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.
(*The system’s European languages are: Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Polish (including voice control), Swedish (including voice control), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and U.K. English.)
Source: Ford
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PrimaryIO, once known as CacheBox, has the first VAIO-integrated caching software to the market to speed database apps in vSphere 6.…
The content below is taken from the original (You Can Now Dual Boot Windows and Chromium with CloudReady), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
CloudReady, the software that allows you to turn just about any old laptop into a Chromebook , now offers a dual boot option so you can check out Chromium without ditching your default operating system.
The content below is taken from the original (ARM Cortex-R8 aka ‘Now your hard drive will have a quad-core CPU in it’), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Brit processor designer ARM has drawn up a quad-core Cortex-R8 CPU so storage drives can cope with the demands of increasing capacities – and phones can download stuff faster.…
The content below is taken from the original (IBM open sources its blockchain code – the non-crazy part of Bitcoin), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
IBM has open sourced a significant chunk of the blockchain code it has been working on, putting its weight behind the Linux Foundation and its Hyperledger project.…
The content below is taken from the original (Microsoft’s new Wireless Display Adapter is more responsive), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Like other Miracast HDMI dongles, Microsoft’s Wireless Display Adapter lets you easily mirror the screen of your Windows (or Android) devices on monitors, TVs and projectors — anything with an HDMI input, really. Redmond’s reasonably priced dongle has been kicking around for roughly 18 months now though, meaning its high time for an updated model. Microsoft’s next-gen Wireless Display Adapter improves on its predecessor in two ways. For starters, the HDMI dongle itself has been almost halved in length, though it still draws power from a tethered USB cable. More importantly, the new version improves responsiveness (aka latency), so your poorly framed smartphone video should pop up on your living room TV that bit quicker.
As the dongle simply mirrors the screen of the source device directly, you’re not limited to specific, supported apps. Your PC, tablet or smartphone, however, will need to be running Windows 8.1 or above, and any Android device with Jelly Bean (4.2) or later should also be compatible. The new Wireless Display Adapter is available to pre-order from Microsoft in the US now for $49.95 ($10 cheaper than the previous generation’s launch price), heading to other outlets including Best Buy and Amazon when it’s officially released on March 1st.
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As useful as Nest’s Dropcam is, it isn’t the best looking home monitoring camera. Still, there aren’t many of them that do a better job design-wise. Silk Labs, a startup founded by Mozilla’s former CTO, Andreas Gal, sees this as an opportunity to offer something different. Enter Sense, which is similar to Dropcam in functionality but also comes with a few notable differences. For example, it’s said to be smart enough to recognize multiple faces; that can be used to let you know if it thinks a stranger is in your home, or play music based on a particular individual’s taste.
Sense (pictured above) also pairs with third-party hardware, such as Sonos speakers and smart light bulbs, among others. Not surprisingly, you’ll find a built-in microphone and speaker on the back of it, used for voice recognition and more features that may be added in the future. Meanwhile, the Sense’s industrial design is intended to blend with people’s lifestyle, according to Gal. It’s supposed to be "something you’re happy to put in your living room," he says.
Gal, who left the Firefox team in 2015, told me that Silk Labs’ goal with Sense is to create a whole new Internet of Things platform: "We are not a hardware company," he says. Instead, Gal hopes the device will drive interest from both developers and manufacturers, especially since Sense and the software powering it are going to be open source. The Kickstarter is launching today, with the product priced at $225.
And Gal doesn’t want you to worry about it being a crowdfunded project, because Silk Labs isn’t financed that way. "Kickstarter is just a way to bring this to people," he added.
Source: Kickstarter (Silk Labs)
The content below is taken from the original (‘5D’ discs can store data until well after the sun burns out), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Researchers at the University of Southampton’s Optical Research Center announced on Tuesday that they’ve perfected a technique that can record data in 5 dimensions and keep it safe for billions of years. The method etches data into a thermally stable disc using femtosecond laser bursts. The storage medium itself holds up to 360 TB per disc, can withstand temperatures up to 1000 degrees C and are estimated to last up to 13.8 billion years at room temperature without degrading.
Each file is comprised of three layers of nanoscale dots. The dots’ side and orientations, as well as their position within the three standard dimensions, constitute its five dimensions. These dots change the polarization of light travelling through the disc which is read using a microscope and polarizer.
The Southampton team originally demonstrated the technology back in 2013 though, at that point, they could only fit a 300kb test file onto a disc. In the three years since their first demonstration, they’ve essentially perfected the recording technique and have since recorded the entirety of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton’s Opticks, Magna Carta and Kings James Bible.
"It is thrilling to think that we have created the technology to preserve documents and information and store it in space for future generations," Professor Peter Kazansky from the ORC said in a statement. "This technology can secure the last evidence of our civilisation: all we’ve learnt will not be forgotten."
Source: University of Southampton
The content below is taken from the original (Getting Ready For HTTP/2: A Guide For Web Designers And Developers), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol that governs the connection between your server and the browsers of your website’s visitors. For the first time since 1999, we have a new version of this protocol, and it promises far faster websites for everyone.
< i>In this article, we’ll look at the basics of HTTP/2 as they apply to web designers and developers. I’ll explain some of the key features of the new protocol, look at browser and server compatibility, and detail the things you might need to think about as we see more adoption of HTTP/2. By reading this article, you will get an overview of what to consider changing in your workflow in the short and long term. I’ll also include plenty of resources if you want to dig further into the issues raised.
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The content below is taken from the original (NICE catch, Amazon: Bezos buys HPC toolkit from Italy), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Amazon’s sparking speculation a more ambitious high-performance computing (HPC) plan with the acquisition of Italian company NICE Software.…
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The content below is taken from the original (Sick and tired of modern Windows? Upgrade to Windows 3.1 today – in your web browser), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
The Internet Archive is taking us back to 1992 with the release of over 1,000 programs and games that run on what was arguably the first mass-market graphical interface: Windows 3.1.…
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Here’s a tip on creating colorful emails with PowerShell.
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The content below is taken from the original (Ready for a nostalgia kick? Usborne has put its old computer books on the web for free), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
UK publishing house Usborne is giving out its iconic 1980s programming books as free downloads.…