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Introducing our next presenter of "Connections" (it's dated, especially the hideous clothing styles, but still fascinating.)
Mockery can be entertaining, but you never know if or what small piece of some trivial, or even dumb invention, will be pivotal in a significant development. (It might not even be something that works, but something that doesn't and why it doesn't work may end up being really important.)
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Amazon has started designing a custom artificial intelligence chip that would power future Echo devices and improve the quality and response time of its Alexa voice assistant Echo devices with custom onboard AI chips would be faster and more efficient than relying solely on the cloud
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This is the story of how I trained a simple neural network to solve a well-defined yet novel challenge in a real iOS app. Not a short read. Better grab a coffee first.
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A security flaw in Skype's updater process can allow an attacker to gain system-level privileges to a vulnerable computer. The bug grants a low-level user access to every corner of the operating system.
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Aren't they scheduled for a complete rewrite? It's been a few months since the last one.
Sorry, back to my cave time off.
TTFN - Kent
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Yes. The user interface is too complex, and there are too many options. 
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The company is shaking up its development program to focus more on key features and push back others to the following year. "Apple software has become prone to bugs and underdeveloped features." Get out of town.
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"Instead of keeping engineers on a relentless annual schedule and cramming features into a single update" they will keep engineers on a relentless two-year schedule while cramming features into two updates!
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Does Apple (and Microsoft, and Oracle, etc.) not use TDD? If they do--and I bet they do--isn't that a testament to the fact that TDD is just another trend with hype that doesn't deliver on its promise?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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What’s eating away at BitTorrent? Why is BitTorrent the only kind of internet traffic not growing nor expected to grow? Valar morghulis
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Now, in the wake of fake news and other troubles at tech companies, universities that helped produce some of Silicon Valley’s top technologists are hustling to bring a more medicine-like morality to computer science. Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.
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Its the new SDLC.
Build new tech
See which social group complains the most
Apologize with a politically correct statement
Promise changes
repeat
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If you live in the US and want home Internet service at speeds of at least 100Mbps, you will likely find one Internet service provider in your area or none at all. Even at 25Mbps, 43 percent of the US had zero ISPs or just one.
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The popular cross-platform, open-source video player VLC has received a significant update in 3.0. It adds support for HDR, including both 10-bit and 12-bit color and 360-degree video.
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In 2016, delivery transactions made up about seven per cent of total U.S. restaurant sales. In a research report published last June, analysts at Morgan Stanley predicted that that number could eventually reach forty per cent of all restaurant sales "It’s worth noting that, even while charging restaurants steep rates, most delivery platforms are not yet profitable, either."
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AHEEC (Association of Ethical Humanoid Eating Cannibals) spokesperson Dr. Maria Lecter commented: "Nothing like a fresh deliverer to your door; so much nicer than bagging a waiter or waitress in situ."
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Only for caged animals big cities dwellers. Most of the people live outside big cities and these services are far more scarcer since the distance to cover would make them unprofitable.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Legacy technology can be a major obstacle to digital transformation projects and, according to a new survey of financial services technology decision makers carried out for business consultancy Janeiro Digital, almost 51 percent say existing technology is holding back innovation. On the plus side, their WinXP machines never need to restart for updates.
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I want to spend a little bit of time talking about a deceptively hard problem django-registration has to deal with: usernames. Any questions? Yes you there, BoatyMcBoatface?
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Hacker group fail0verflow shared a photo of a Nintendo Switch running Debian, a distribution of Linux The group claims that Nintendo can’t fix the vulnerability with future firmware patches
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Scientists working at one of Russia’s top-secret nuclear facilities have been arrested by state police for allegedly trying to use the site’s powerful research computers to mine cryptocurrencies. The scheme blew up in their faces
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From the article: The bungling miners have been detained by the competent authorities.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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