Nushell, or Nu for short, is a new shell that takes a modern, structured approach to your commandline. It works seamlessly with the data from your filesystem, operating system, and a growing number of file formats to make it easy to build powerful commandline pipelines. Today, we’re releasing a beta release of 0.60 of Nu.Continue reading “Nushell 0.60”
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Simple electrical circuit learns on its own—with no help from a computer
System sidesteps computing bottleneck in tuning artificial intelligence algorithms A simple electrical circuit has learned to recognize flowers based on their petal size. That may seem trivial compared with artificial intelligence (AI) systems that recognize faces in a crowd, transcribe spoken words into text, and perform other astounding feats. However, the tiny circuit outshines conventionalContinue reading “Simple electrical circuit learns on its own—with no help from a computer”
My guiding principles after 20 years of programming
I’ve been programming since 1999 and this year I’ve officially coded for 20+ years. I started with Basic but soon jumped into Pascal and C and then learned object oriented programming (OOP) with Delphi and C++. In 2006 I started with Java and in 2011 I started with JavaScript. I’ve worked with a wide rangeContinue reading “My guiding principles after 20 years of programming”
Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability
JDK 18, the reference implementation of Java 18, is now GenerallyAvailable. We shipped build 36 as the first Release Candidate ofJDK 18 on 15 February, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then.Build 36 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production use. Read more…
The Royal Mint to build ‘world first’ plant to turn UK’s electronic waste into gold
Has announced plans to build a world first plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. The pioneering facility will help address a growing environmental issue, support jobs and skills in Britain, and create a new source of high quality precious metals for the business. The Royal Mint is using patented newContinue reading “The Royal Mint to build ‘world first’ plant to turn UK’s electronic waste into gold”
OneWeb to resume satellite launches through agreement with SpaceX
Agreement will enable OneWeb to resume its launch programme and complete satellite constellation for industry-grade secure connectivity around the world. OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, announced today that the company and SpaceX entered into an agreement that will enable OneWeb to resume satellite launches. The first launch with SpaceX is anticipatedContinue reading “OneWeb to resume satellite launches through agreement with SpaceX”
LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
We introduce LTrack, a new tracking attack on LTE that allows an attacker to stealthily extract user devices’ locations and permanent identifiers (IMSI). To remain stealthy, the localization of devices in LTrack is fully passive, relying on our new uplink/downlink sniffer. Our sniffer records both the times of arrival of LTE messages and the contentsContinue reading “LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE”
Gravity hill
A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill, mystery hill, mystery spot, gravity road, or anti-gravity hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rollingContinue reading “Gravity hill”
The Gömböc: The object that shouldn’t exist
A Gömböc is a strange thing. It looks like an egg with sharp edges, and when you put it down it starts wriggling and rolling around with an apparent will of its own. Until quite recently, no-one knew whether Gömböcs even existed. Even now, Gábor Domokos, one of their discoverers, reckons that in some senseContinue reading “The Gömböc: The object that shouldn’t exist”
Inside the Apple-1’s unusual MOS clock driver chip
Apple’s first product was the Apple-1 computer, introduced in 1976. This early microcomputer used an unusual type of storage for its display: shift register memory. Instead of storing data in RAM (random-access memory), it was stored in a 1024-position shift register. You put a bit into the shift register and 1024 clock cycles later, theContinue reading “Inside the Apple-1’s unusual MOS clock driver chip”
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