Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Found: Hunting With Drones From the Comfort of Your Couch

In the future there might be no need to sit in a deer blind for hours, freezing and bored. Instead, all you'll have to do is walk out your front door, launch your drone, pop a cold one and wait for it to shoot dinner.

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/hunting-drone-spoof/

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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Chocolate-Bunny Boxes, Yawning Tortoises and Masturbation Distractions: 10 WTF Research Highlights

Even as a boy, Marc Abrahams had a calling: to collect funny, unexpected and generally weird examples of science. Now he's the editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, the world's preeminent journal of strange scientific findings and sponsor of the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes. Recipients have studied such phenomena as contagious yawning in turtles, sword-swallowing's side effects and the results of cracking knuckles in one hand but not the other for 50 years. Wired talks to Abrahams about his some of his favorite science.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/improbable-research/

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First look: Driving VMware vSphere 5.1

Today marks the official release of VMware's vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there's much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have been comfortable wearing the number 6.

There's a lot going on in 5.1, and I've had only a few days to play with it in the lab. Still, my overall impression out of the gate is positive, with a few qualifications.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/first-look-driving-vmware-vsphere-51-202031?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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Virgin Mobile Shrugs as Coder Warns Accounts Are Easily Hijacked

When a start-up developer told Virgin Mobile a month ago that their online account security was abysmal, he didn't expect they'd blow him off and refuse to fix the problem. But that's exactly what he says happened, and the flaws remain.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/virgin-mobile/

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‘This Is Responsive’: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Responsive Design

Keeping up with the world of responsive design can be a full time job, but a new site from developer Brad Frost puts everything you need to know in one place. "This is Responsive" is even hosted at GitHub so you can add your own clever ideas to the mix.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/09/this-is-responsive-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-responsive-design/

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Cloud API and service designers, stop thinking small

Back in June, I walked you through the steps to define and design a cloud computing API or service. My goal was to get those who build private, public, and hybrid clouds to think a bit more around how these APIs are designed, developed, deployed, and managed.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-api-and-service-designers-stop-thinking-small-202003?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Twitter sings like a canary -- and we all lose

You know that blue bird Twitter uses as its mascot? Turns out it's really a stool pigeon. Two days ago, Twitter agreed to hand over the tweets and other information of one of its users to a New York municipal court.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/twitter-sings-canary-and-we-all-lose-202527?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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