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April 27 - May 3, 2017
Book Reviews
- OpenGL Programming Guide
OpenGL is the open source graphics system you probably need to learn and this is its official guide. Mike James gave it a rating of 3 out of 5.
- Learn to Program with Scratch
Lucy Black awarded this title, aimed at anyone who wants to learn programming as well as Scratch, a full 5-start rating, concluding:
This is not a book for dummies, but I can recommend it to anyone wanting to use Scratch as a way to graduate to full programmer status and have a lot of fun on the way.
News
Windows 10 S App Store Only! Wednesday 03 May
Windows 10 S could be Microsoft's best chance to gain market share, specifically that of the educational market. Is it time to take the Windows Store seriously or abandon Windows?
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Self Driving Cars Can Be Easily Made To Not See Pedestrians Wednesday 03 May
This is another chapter in the ongoing and long-running story of universal adversarial perturbations. In this case the technique has been extended to image segmentation and the perturbations can make pedestrians invisible to a neural network and yet appear unaltered to human vision.
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How Many Tracks Does A DJ Have To Play? Tuesday 02 May
Music is important but do we know how people listen to it? Does it depend on them or on the genre they are listening to? And the really important question - how many tracks does a DJ have to play to keep everyone happy?
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TypeScript 2.3 Released Tuesday 02 May
The latest release of Microsoft’s open source typed superset of JavaScript is now available. TypeScript 2.3 features generators and iteration for ES5/ES3, generic parameter defaults and more.
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Asus Takes Tinker Board Seriously Now Shipping In US Monday 01 May
Back when the Tinker Board launched in the UK we were puzzled by the less than solid support for it from Asus. Even UK distributor CPC dropped the product a few days later. Now things are looking very different.
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Google Assistant SDK Released Monday 01 May
The Google Assistant SDK, launched as a Developer Preview, means developers can now embed Google Assistant in projects on their own hardware.
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Forget The Turing Test It's The MacGyver Test That Matters Sunday 30 April
There are lots of generalized Turing tests which all work on the general principle that if you can't tell the artificial from the natural then they are for all intents and purposes the same. Now we have the MacGyver test which is aimed at seeing how much devious problem-solving intelligence a system has.
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New Developer Economics Survey Saturday 29 April
Vision Mobile has launched its Developer Economics Q3 2017 survey and you'll find a space journey theme and a smattering of programmer jokes as you complete it. The incentive is prizes to win and personalized charts and graphs to show how you compare to other developers in your country or region.
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Amazon Underground Developer Program To Close Friday 28 April
Amazon has announced that it will stop accepting new Android apps for the Underground Actually Free program on May 31st, 2017. Existing apps, will still be available for customers to download until 2019 and will continue to generate royalties for developers for a 6-month wind-down period after that.
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R 3.4 Brings Performance Improvements Friday 28 April
R 3.4.0, codenamed “You Stupid Darkness”, a major release of the R language used for data science, big data analysis, predictive modeling and visualization, has been released. It has a long list of new features and bug fixes and their overall effect is improved performance.
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Apple Releases LivePhotos JavaScript SDK Thursday 27 April
Until now Apple's Live Photos were largely confined to your iPhone 6S, 6S Plus or SE so you were limited in how you could share them. Thanks to a new SDK you can now add LivePhotos to a website.
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Amazon Updates Data Offerings Thursday 27 April
Amazon announced a raft of improvements to its databases at its AWS Summit in San Francisco, ranging from accelerators for DynamoDB to the ability to query exabytes of unstructured data directly in S3 storage.
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The Core
jQuery 3 - Using Events Monday 01 May
jQuery provides both a general framework for handling events and event-specific functions. While you can use the general functions - on, off and one - to deal with all events, the event-specific functions do focus the mind on how events are used and are worth knowing about.
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Babbage's Bag
Information Theory Thursday 27 April
So you know what a bit is – or do you? How much information does a bit carry? What is this "information" stuff anyway? The answers are, unsurprisingly, all contained in the subject called Information Theory, which was invented by one man.
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