This is bringing our staff back to the days of when high school lists would float around the school, telling us which kids were “hot or not.” Instead of a list, we now have a selfie bot that will rate your selfie. Andrej Karpathy is part of a project involving deep neural networks. On his … continue reading
Google is planning to bring its personal computer operating system, Chrome OS, to its mobile operating system, Android. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new operating system will be unveiled in 2017, but users can expect a preview of the early version by next year. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, recently told analysts that … continue reading
Incentive, a leading provider of a complete social intranet for mid-market organizations and enterprise teams, today announced the general availability of its Fall Edition 2015. The new release includes an enhanced user experience and advanced features such as polls, autosave, an improved search function and a Windows File Server integration that enables companies to collaborate … continue reading
Moving forward at a breakneck pace, Node.js reached version 5.0 today. The new version includes several changes, but is also the first release to include the fruits of a reworking of the Node Package Manager. Indeed, Node.js 5.0 comes shortly after the release of Node.js version 4.2.0, which was the most recent long-term support (LTS) … continue reading
The software development industry is growing by leaps and bounds every day, but security still seems to be a problem that hasn’t been conquered. Many businesses have had the displeasure of dealing with hack attacks, and we read about them almost every week. So here comes SourceClear: a security company focused on software developers that … continue reading
Tomorrow is Halloween, and to honor the holiday, we are featuring this creepy animation in our GitHub Project of the Week. Halloween eyes is a motion-sensitive animation that makes electronic eyes go from sweet and friendly to mean and spooky when you get closer. “For Halloween this year, some friends did a sort of ‘mini … continue reading
Microsoft is furthering its commitment to Big Data with new products designed to help businesses make smarter decisions about their data. The company announced an upcoming preview of SQL Server 2016 3.0, its intelligent Big Data platform. “We live in the age of data, and the ability to extract actionable intelligence from data is driving … continue reading
Despite 20 years of Java history, this was the youngest JavaOne conference yet. That’s due to the high number of teenagers at the show, many of which were there with their high school programming classes. Suri Nair, IT operations manager for the Overhead Door, said, “It’s really exciting. I see a lot of millennial people … continue reading
The Ceph Community, an open-source object and file cloud storage stack, has formed an advisory board that will work in governance with the community. The Ceph Advisory Board will assist the community in driving open-source software-defined storage technology, and in collaborating with the community’s technical and user committees. (Related: Why open-source storage is worth looking … continue reading
Last time, I wrote of my conversation with Grady Booch, a legendary thinker who first made his mark in the mid-1990s (as co-inventor of the Unified Modeling Language and contributor to the Rational Unified Process). He continues to be on the cutting edge of development in his role as IBM Fellow. He spoke of a … continue reading
Verizon is focusing on the Internet of Things in its next venture. The company announced a global strategy to make developing IoT solutions simpler, and to accelerate market adoption. “Continued innovation in smart cities, connected cars and wearables demonstrates that IoT is the future for how we will live and work,” said Mike Lanman, senior … continue reading
The Internet of Things is all around us, and every day we’re soaking it in. It is giving the Internet senses for the first time, which will drive us to the future of business technology. Sensors are a huge part of the Internet of Things—and soon a big part of the Internet as a whole. … continue reading
