http://makezine.com/2017/05/29/gdc-weird-video-games-controls/ This article shows some unconventional game controllers. “Unsurprisingly, microcontrollers like Arduino and its endless variants are the brains behind many of these interfaces.” →
https://techcrunch.com/gallery/internet-trends-2017/ Here are the must-read stats about what’s happening with Internet adoption, smartphones, ads, ecommerce, entertainment, gaming, enterprise healthcare, China, India, and startups. →
I visited Embedded Conference Finland 2017 around one month ago ( May 3, 2017). I wrote about it in Finnish to Uusiteknologia.fi web site. Ufortuantely I did not have time at the moment to write material on it to this blog. Here is some material on that here. Here are some slides and advice picked →
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/05/29/527892222/in-public-understanding-of-science-alternative-facts-are-the-norm?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170529 The notion of alternative facts was roundly mocked on social media. But there are many alternative facts that are just as absurd from an empirical point of view but widely endorsed nonetheless: that dinosaurs once coexisted with humans; that vaccines cause autism; that genetically modified foods are dangerous to eat; that humans are not responsible for →
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-with-creative-personalities-really-do-see-the-world-differently/ As Pablo Picasso put it: Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. The idea that some people see more possibilities than others is central to the concept of creativity. Psychologists often measure creativity using divergent thinking tasks. The aspect of our personality that appears →
I visited today NOHAU seminar on industrial IoT and security related to it. The seminar content was in mixed Finnish and English language: Seminaari: Varaudu kyberhyökkäyksiin – Miten liität sulautetun laitteen turvallisesti internettiin? http://nohau.fi/events/hyodynna-ja-hallitse-teollinen-internet/ Ohjelma: 8.30 Aamupala ja rekisteröinti (breakfast and registration) 8:45 Tervetuloa – Nohau (wellcome) 9:00 Teollisen internetin businessmahdollisuudet, Jukka Nurmi, Director, IoT →
http://makezine.com/2017/05/30/extraordinary-dev-boards/ This article showsv hot new board highlights in four key categories: Education, Robotics, IoT, and Art. →
https://fossbytes.com/tor-anonymity-things-not-using-tor/ Being Anonymous online is the need of the hour, and TOR browser does that job quite efficiently and honestly. But there are some things that you need to keep in mind so that you don’t blow your anonymity cover while using the TOR network. →
https://opensource.com/life/16/4/open-source-robotics-projects?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY Robots are playing an increasing role in our world, and while we perhaps haven’t reached the utopian future with robotic housekeepers imagined for us in the Jetsons, robotics are making advances in many fields. Now, with the advances of self driving cars, drones, and other transport technologies, the line between what is a robot →
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/gif-turns-30-ancient-format-changed-internet/?mbid=social_fb Wilhite finished the first version of the GIF specification on May, 1987. Compuserve began using the format the next month. This was two years before Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced his World Wide Web project and six years before the Mosiac browser made the web widely accessible. It was the web that made the GIF what it is →