Archive for May 2016

http://www.geek.com/news/new-form-of-light-may-change-the-future-of-fiber-optics-1655201/ Interesting finding. May have some uses in optical communications. →

http://www.geek.com/news/11-awesome-youtube-channels-where-people-destroy-stuff-1655296/ Sometimes seeing annoying things destroyed is enjoyable. You don’t need to do this yourself. →

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Correalition does not always indicate causation. Check also related comic xkcd: Correlation →

http://www.geek.com/news/firefox-steals-second-place-from-internet-explorer-1655346/ Some new statistics on popularity of web browsers. Chrome is clear number one. →

Is your password in this art? Those are the most popular passwords. Source: Arrow IoT Summit →

https://openmedia.org/en/eu-commission-and-terrible-no-good-very-bad-idea This idea of “link tax” is a really bad one. →

Nokia gave an interesting keynote speech in it’s IoT plans at Arrow IoT Summit to 19.5.2016. Here are some selected slides:   Nokia keynote memo: – Lots of new traffic coming – some cases cellular signaling can take more bandwith than IoT data – Nokia supports many IoT technologies – Too many players in IoT →

Stripboard is the generic name (also known as Veroboard) for a widely used type of electronics prototyping board characterized by a 0.1 inch (2.54 mm) regular (rectangular) grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running in one direction all the way across one side of the board. Stripboard is available from many vendors. Stripboards →

http://thelongandshort.org/society/future-of-archiving Finland is plannning to digitize archives and burn aging paper that is not needed. →

Finnish gaming industry’s two biggest stars are Supercell and Rovio. While Supercell has been the greatest start in mobile games, Rovio has been expanding to a larger entertainment company with large bet on Angry Birds movie that Rovio did with Sony Picture. Angry Birds movie is based on Rovio’s popular Angry Birds game, the film →