Legacy Migration – Detecting Outdated Practices

Users and project managers usually instruct a team migrating an old software product to ‘keep the functionality as close to the original as possible’. The implication of this is ‘translate line by line’. As pointed…

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This Redundant Fishing Trawler is Now a Wave Power Plant

All ships are built to withstand stormy seas but eventually end up in a junkyard. But a redundant fishing trawler has been given a fresh lease on life in Norway where it is being used…

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Auto-Lock Your Mac When You Walk Away With Sesame 2

DESCRIPTION Simply keep Sesame in your pocket, and your Mac will auto-lock every time you walk away. When you return, Sesame will auto-unlock your screen, so you can continue right where you left off. It’s…

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AT&T Launching ‘GigaPower’ in Kansas City to Compete With Google Fiber

AT&T has announced it will launch its own super-fast Internet service, “GigaPower”, in Kansas City to rival Google’s Fiber program. Google Fiber once promised internet speeds 75-100X faster than cable or DSL, but only time will…

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Exponential Growth & Disruptive Change

Business people like to think in terms of exponential increase; 3% growth per year, for example, represents a doubling in 24 years. Using Piketty’s example regarding wealth concentration, 5% per year doubles one’s asset values…

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Inside Look at Ferrari’s FXX K: The $2.9 Million Beast Only Deliverable to Race Tracks

If you have the money to splurge on Ferrari’s new $2.9 million FXX K, there will be one place and one place only you get to drive your new vehicle…a race track. That’s right. Ferrari literally…

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GE Repurposing RFID Tags as Tiny Explosive Detecting Sensors… Anti-Terrorism Breakthrough?

GE worked with Technical Support Working Group (TSWG), a task force dedicated to anti-terrorism, in order to develop a new, small RFID sensor capable of detecting explosives. Generally, the type of the devices used for detecting explosives…

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Make Your First Video Game Today with Unity 3D Developer Course Bundle

Are you ready to dive into the world of Unity 3D game creation? We have all you need to get started right here: Unity3D Game Developer Course Bundle 7 Courses, 40+ Hours of Content: Build…

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Cost Is the Critical Factor in Addressing Climate Issues

The instant I had internet access in the 1990s I started researching the state of renewable energy and CO2 sequestration. There were two thrusts to all this – first was ‘what is possible?’, the second…

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New Contact Lenses Are Miniature Telescopes For Your Eyes… Control Zoom With Winks!

New contact lenses, funded by DARPA and developed by researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are essentially miniature telescopes for your eyes. The contact itself is a scleral lens, meaning it is…

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