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In Defense of Technologytmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
As products and services advance, plenty of nostalgists believe that certain elements of humanity have been lost. One contrarian argues that being attached to one’s iPhone is a godsend. -
Alan Turing’s Universal Computing Machinemedium.com
What are Turing Machines, why are they useful, and how do they apply to modern computers? -
How to build a fairer citytheguardian.com
In the first in an occasional series looking at how to make cities fairer for all, four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence over ostentatious tower blocks - github.com
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E Ink at CES 2015eink.com
E Ink's unique and dynamic materials for architecture and design incorporating its new color changing electronic ink technology - queue.acm.org
- selectorgadget.com
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I2P Anonymous Networkgeti2p.net
Anonymous peer-to-peer distributed communication layer built with open source tools and designed to run any traditional Internet service such as email, IRC or web hosting. - news.ycombinator.com
- umiacs.umd.edu
- networkfilter.blogspot.com
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DIY calculator: HP30b to WP34S!thereminworld.com
<p>In the not so distant past, engineers - like gunslingers! - had slide rules strapped to their belts, itchy fingers fidgeting nearby, ready to whip it out and calculate at the drop of a hat. With the advent of IC CPUs scientific calcul... -
Java application servers are dead! - JAXenterjaxenter.com
Eberhard Wolff continues his examination of why we need to revise the role of Java application server in deployment, devops and microservices. - etotheipiplusone.net
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Teaching Quantum Chemistry with IPython Notebookstmarkovich.com
I recently gave a talk at the Boston Area Python User Group Meeting about a new style of Quantum Chemistry class that I helped develop in the fall of 2014. My PhD advisor, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, as wel... -
On the duality of operating system structuresblog.acolyer.org
On the Duality of Operating System Structures - Lauer and Needham, 1978 The pendulum currently says "threads and locks are bad, events are good." Vigourous defences are mounted in favour of one sys... -
x.ai and the emergence of the AI-powered applicationmattturck.com
AI is experiencing an astounding resurrection. After so many broken promises, the term "artificial intelligence" had become almost a dirty word in technology circles. The field is now rising from... -
The Algorithm That Unscrambles Fractured Images | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
The ongoing revolution in image processing has produced yet another way to extract images from a complex environment. - christophermanning.org
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'Silk Road Reloaded' Just Launched on a Network More Secret than Tormotherboard.vice.com
The new destination for illicit drugs and fake IDs may be found on a lesser-known anonymity service called I2P.