February 2011
Hey, You HFT Bashers! Are You Ready For This? «... →
The quantum computer has been underway for 20 years now. But scientist are still not sure how to use them in real life, or for what. However, they’ve just made another amazing discovery; the quantum computer will be able to run – even with faulty programming and missing components.
Jenkins CI | A Jenkins community resource →
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
RubyGems 1.5.0 Released: Now Supports Ruby 1.9.2 →
Eric Davis has announced the release of RubyGems 1.5.0. It comes just a month after the release of 1.4 which, notoriously, didn’t work with Ruby 1.9.2. These problems have now all been ironed out and Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 users alike can safely upgrade (fingers crossed).
10BEIJING263 @ Cable Viewer →
A cursory walk through their labs seemed to indicate they had already succeeded in single-particle quantum teleportation and are now trying to conduct dual-particle quantum teleportation.
January 2011
Introducing "Silver" | ehinton →
Enter Silver. Silver is designed to be a simple, lightweight wrapper for all your calls to a database that you want to cache or index with Redis. It is completely database/web-service agnostic so you should be able to use if for anything you can imagine caching. This is all well, but you are just here to see how this works. Right. (What follows is taken from Silver’s README. If you have...
London Stock Exchange 'under major cyberattack'... →
The London Stock Exchange’s new open source trading system may have been hacked last year, according to a report. The alleged attack came as the LSE began the switch over to the Linux-based systems, according to the dates referred to in the Times newspaper.
BBC News - Is there a genius in all of us? →
The notion of a fixed IQ has been with us for almost a century. Yet the original inventor of the IQ test, Alfred Binet, had quite the opposite opinion, and the science turns out to favour Binet.
Quantum Entanglement Could Stretch Across Time |... →
In the weird world of quantum physics, two linked particles can share a single fate, even when they’re miles apart. Now, two physicists have mathematically described how this spooky effect, called entanglement, could also bind particles across time.
“There’s just one problem: Humans can’t see individual photons. The retina needs...”
– How to See Quantum Entanglement | Wired Science | Wired.com
How to See Quantum Entanglement | Wired Science |... →
“In general you think these quantum phenomena that involve only a few particles, they’re really far removed from us. That is actually not so true anymore,” said physicist Nicolas Brunner of the University of Bristol. “You could really go to an experiment by just having people look at these photons, and from there really actually see entanglement.”
'The right people are there, now it's a matter of... →
Is it correct that a new quantum age is beginning? Certainly. There are a number of tasks that were earlier impossible to perform using classical means but they are possible now using quantum entanglement. Certain kinds of quantum cryptography are an example. Completely secure cryptography is now possible using quantum entanglement. Admittedly, there are other quantum mechanical schemes that...
Tevatron to Shut Down in September - US News and... →
The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron will shut down by the end of September, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced, dashing hopes that the 25-year-old atom smasher in Batavia, Ill., might win a transatlantic race to find the most sought-after elementary particle in high-energy physics.
iPhone 5 Chip Overloads Samsung Production... →
The upcoming iPhone 5 is rumored to be among the new iOS devices to feature a next-generation PowerVR GPU. Recent shipping numbers revealed that Apple shipped almost 50 million iPhone 4 units in 2010. Soon, the Verizon iPhone will further increase the demand for Apple chips.
The Pyramid Web Application Development Framework... →
Pyramid is a small, fast, down-to-earth Python web application development framework. It is developed as part of the Pylons Project. It is licensed under a BSD-like license.
Advance in Quantum Computing Entangles Particles... →
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic particles in silicon. The research offers a glimpse of a future computing world in which individual atomic nuclei store and retrieve data and single electrons shuttle it back and forth.
One Step Back From the Digital World - NYTimes.com →
Clive Thompson, a technology columnist for Wired magazine, said that last year he began to completely ignore his e-mail “from Friday night to Monday morning,” so he doesn’t accidentally get involved in work and pulled away from his family.
11 Predictions for the World in 2030 That May... →
All futurism is speculation. It’s time someone made some claims. I’ve picked developments I honestly consider plausible. Here are my 11 predictions for the world of 2030. I’m backing these claims up with previous writings. To access the relevant article, just click the title of each point.
More information about the MHTML Script Injection... →
Today we released Security Advisory 2501696 to alert customers to a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the MHTML protocol handler. This vulnerability could allow attackers to construct malicious links pointing to HTML documents that, when clicked, would render the targeted document and reflected script in the security context of the user and target location. The end result of this type of...
Camlistore →
a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
Bird size UAS by 2015, now where have we seen that... →
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is working to design and build unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) as small as a bird, or even a large insect, according to Mikel Miller, chief scientist for the Munitions Directorate AFRL at Eglin Air Force Base.
What Startups Are Actually Getting Money?: Tech... →
The flood of venture capital from 2005 through 2007 slowed considerably, but after a slow 2009, the money and venture investors seem to be back in funding action. For the full year, 2,792 companies raised a total of $23.7 billion, but while the amount of fundings have returned, the deals change.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon S3 - Bigger and... →
The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second.
Missing method: How to delete from Okasaki's... →
Balanced-tree-based maps are a workhorse in functional programming. Because of their disarming simplicity, Chris Okasaki’s purely functional red-black trees are a popular means for implementing such maps.
Starship Asterisk* • View forum - Classroom:... →
Welcome to the Asterisk! The Asterisk* is first and foremost an interactive bulletin board where topics in astronomy and space can be discussed by anyone willing to conform to a few simple rules. In particular, the Asterisk* is currently the main venue for the discussion of Astronomy Pictures of the Day (APODs), as this board was initially set up by Robert Nemiroff (RJN), an APOD (co-)...
Entangled Particles Seem to Communicate... →
Of all the weirdness in the universe, the quantum mechanics phenomenon called “entanglement” may be the most mind-boggling. Physicists have long shaken their heads at the theory that two particles that become entangled will always and instantly mirror each other’s properties, no matter how far they are separated, which seems to go against all other physical understanding.
Study marks spooky step towards quantum computers... →
Scientists have moved a step closer to creating ultra-fast quantum computers by generating 10 billion bits of quantum entanglement in silicon for the first time.
In the Blink of Bird’s Eye, a Model for Quantum... →
Quantum entanglement is a state where electrons are spatially separated, but able to affect one another. It’s been proposed that birds’ eyes contain entanglement-based compasses.
Sublime Blog » Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha →
Sublime Text 2 started life as Sublime Text X, and was first available as a preview to registered users several months ago. Since then, there’s been an average of one new release a week. It’s come a long way, and it’s time to open it to a wider audience.
xetorthio/jedis - GitHub →
Jedis is a blazingly small and sane Redis java client. Jedis was conceived to be EASY to use. Jedis is fully compatible with redis 2.0.0.
Home | NFC Times →
The premier source for news, analysis and commentary on Near Field Communication and all contactless technology
The Open NFC Project →
Open NFC™ is a portable software stack implementing NFC functionalities on top of a NFC hardware. The implementation is hardware independent with the usage of a Hardware Abstraction Layer for the NFC chip. Open NFC is a collaborative Open Source project hosted on Source Forge. The implementation of Open NFC is provided in Open Source license Apache 2.0.
Open NFC | Download Open NFC software for free at... →
Open NFC is an open source stack implementing the NFC functionnalities for many OSes. The Open NFC stack offers a comprehensive set of NFC API for Android, Linux and Windows Mobile. This project includes also a full implementation of JSR 257.
jmonkeyengine - Project Hosting on Google Code →
jMonkeyEngine was made especially for game developers who want to create 3D games with modern technology standards. The software is programmed entirely in Java, intended for wide accessibility. The engine is used by several commercial game studios as well as university (game-) classes. While the project will continue to support and develop its most popular 2.0 branch for years still to come, a 3.0...
TTSLibraryExplanation - eyes-free - Project... →
BTW, if you’re wondering why the TTS needs internet connectivity, it’s because when an app first tries to use it, it will download some speech data files to your SD card. The speech data files are stored on the SD card instead of being shipped with the app to minimize the amount of space that the TTS needs to take up in your phone memory. After that, assuming that you keep your SD card...
The Deacon Project →
Deacon is a push notification library for Android and Java applications. It uses the flexible Meteor web server to deliver notifications using comet technology. For more information, check out the About Page. You can also learn how we got started, or visit our repository on GitHub.
android-json-rpc - Project Hosting on Google Code →
JSON-RPC is a lightweight cross-language remote procedure call protocol that simplifies the creation of web services providers and clients. JSON serialization is typically more efficient than XML based serialization and is more suited for mobile environments like android. On the server side, several libraries exist to implement JSON-RPC services in the language of your choice (Python, Java, C#,...
The NERD tree - A tree explorer plugin for... →
The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform simple filesystem operations.