Scala Foundation
Project: Scala Foundation Web Site and Logo Development Client: Scala Foundation Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; WordPress; Divi PageBuilder, MailChimp. Description: Web site development, logo, and Emailing outreach program. URL: scalafoundation.org
Your drone looks chilly, does it want this sweater?
by Kaitlyn Tiffany From The Verge For a mere $189 you can take your drone from maybe a little chilly to definitely toasty-warm. Wouldn’t you like to do that for your drone? If you would, San Francisco-based artist Danielle Baskin will help you. She makes this...
How to Downgrade from iOS 10.2 to 10.1.1
BY JOSH SMITH 12/12/2016 This guide will show you how to go back to iOS 10.1.1 from iOS 10.2. If you run into iOS 10 problems or don’t like the performance on your iPhone or iPad after upgrading you can go back. Here’s how to downgrade from 10.2. Apple just released...
Urban Ethnography: A Conference and a Retreat
Project: Conference Book/Program (Online and Print), Layout and Design Client: Yale University/UEP, New Haven, CT Technologies: CS6: Photoshop; InDesign CS6 Description: Layout and Design Brochure: Ethnography-3-31-14
Researchers find weakness in common computer chip
2016-10-25 BINGHAMTON, NY – Researchers from Binghamton University—State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems...
Researchers invent “smart” thread that collects diagnostic data when sutured into tissue
Advances could pave way for new generation of implantable and wearable diagnostics Threads penetrate multiple layers of tissue to sample interstitial fluid and direct it to sensing threads that collect data, such as pH and glucose levels. Conductive threads deliver...
The Verge 2016 tech report card: Facebook
by Casey Newton From The Verge Another 12 months have flown by. As we look back at this year in tech, The Verge staff members are grading each major company and product category in the industry on how they fared in 2016. Last year, with its profits surging and user...
For Fact-Checking Website Snopes, a Bigger Role Brings More Attacks
NEW YORK TIMES | By DAVID STREITFELD DEC. 25, 2016 SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of the modern internet is in a downscale strip mall near the beach. Snopes, the fact-checking...
How to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds
New York Times By J. D. BIERSDORFER DEC. 15, 2016 Q. My photos posted on Instagram (along with my captions) function like a visual diary of my years. Is there a safe way to preserve them — off my phone, maybe even to transfer them to hard copy? I would be devastated...
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Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems. The advances are being used to secure everything from unmanned drones to the internet. By Kevin Hartnett September 20, 2016 From Quanta Magazine...
RESEARCHERS FIND THE RIGHT BALANCE TO SPEED WIRELESS DOWNLOADS THROUGH JUDICIOUS USE OF DUPLEXING
A full duplex radio system developed at NYU Tandon School of Engineering by Professor Mike Knox Award-Winning Paper by NYU Tandon and Trinity College Authors Demonstrates How to Gain the Efficiency of Sending and Receiving Signals on the Same Radio Wave While Avoiding...
Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
The New York Times By QUENTIN HARDY DEC. 25, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software. That is because Amazon Web Services, his...
U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media
By TONY ROMM From Politico NEW YORK — The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a move designed to spot potential terrorist threats that drew...
Biggest Tech Failures and Successes of 2016
New York Times By Brian X. Chen If you love technology, it may be time for a group hug: This year has been rough for consumer technology. From exploding smartphones and hoverboards to the proliferation of fake news on social media, many of our tech hardware, software...
Why Netflix Lets Movie Lovers Down, and What to Do About It
By GLENN KENNY Almost half a century ago, if you had enough disposable income and a certain amount of technical agility, you could have your own YouTube channel. Sort of. You could share your videos with friends who came over to your place to watch them, or you lend...
Troll hunters: the Twitterbots that fight against online abuse
Social media has a big problem with racist and misogynistic harassment and human intervention isn't working. Time to bring in the bots By Sally Adee WHEN Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones was hounded off Twitter last month, having braved several days of racist and...
4 big plans to fix internet security
Internet security is in crisis. These four proposals offer tangible solutions -- including one scheme to change the Internet's workings from top to bottom By Fahmida Y. Rashid From InfoWorld The Internet is all-encompassing. Between mobile devices and work computers,...