Films and TV shows often feature computers. Some of the computers display code on the screen, but is the code real? What would the code actually do? Well some people have gone to the trouble of checking it out in detail and, of course, there’s a blog dedicated to collecting it You’ll find screenshots and […]
Twitter has launched “Vine on the Web”, which means that if you reserved your custom URL / profile it’s now live. The profile page of a user is quite similar to what we’re used to seeing with Twitter, in fact, most of the experience is similar. However there are differences. For example, while you can […]
While Apple’s “12 Days of Gifts” app has been nice, though quite mixed, some of the best deals on iPhone apps are available from the developers themselves. Several people have been sharing links to Scanner Pro, which is currently free. What is it? It basically turns your iOS device into a portable scanner. You can […]
Google’s image recognition “deep learning” systems have evolved to the point where the engineers working on them no longer understand how they are “thinking”. At the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco last week, Google Engineer Quoc V Le revealed that the company’s image recognition cluster has learned how to identify items which the programmers don’t […]
I mentioned Patch Tuesday yesterday. Did you know that it is 10 years old this month? Prior to October 2003, Microsoft issued updates on an ad-hoc basis. This caused problems for their customers, particularly in large organisations where configuration management must be carefully handled. I worked in one of those at the time and […]
When it comes to politics, the story’s in the data, and it always has been. Interpreting “the numbers” has traditionally been the preserve of a priest-like caste of tallymen and vote managers, who possess the ability to read the raw code of The Matrix. For the rest of us, understanding data comes down to how it’s […]
Google have announced that they’re dropping support for IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) at the end of the year. We decided to do this to both accelerate the pace at which we can innovate new product features, and to facilitate adoption of newer web technologies in the design of the Google Analytics product. Our ultimate goal […]
The Linux Foundation has released their latest report and also produced a nice little graphic to help illustrate it. Here are some of the headline numbers: Nearly 10,000 developers from more than 1,000 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began in 2005. Just since the last report, more than 1,100 developers from […]
Online music service Deezer has announced that their apps will soon be available on a broader range of Smart TVs. The Deezer app will be available on Panasonic, Philips, Loewe, TCL Thomson, Sharp and Vestel (some via NetRange). Samsung and LG users will be able to access more features via the app’s latest upgrade, which […]
RTE’s player app is now available for Android. The app has been available on iOS since late 2012 and has been downloaded over 700 thousand times to date! Full details on the new release here
