Last weekend’s news in the tech world was flooded with a “story” about how a “chatbot” passed the Turing Test for “the first time”: Many media outlets were reporting that a computer programme pretending to be a 13-year-old boy from the Ukraine passed the Turing test for artificial intelligence on Saturday. The problem is that →
jsFiddle is a well worth to check out online playground for your JavaScript, HTML, CSS code at http://jsfiddle.net/. It it provides on-line code editor and a custom environment (based on user selections) to test (or fiddle with) your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code right inside your browser. Getting up and running with jsFiddle is as →
Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. The Agile Manifesto introduced the term in 2001. Since then, the Agile Movement, with all its values, principles, methods, practices, tools, champions and practitioners, philosophies and cultures, →
Soviet blockbuster computer game Tetris is 30 years old. Tetris (Russian: Те́трис, pronounced [ˈtɛtrʲɪs]) is a Soviet tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984. It was the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US. The versions of Tetris were →
Every once in a while, an interesting product appears on the market. Not a Joke: Texas Instruments Unveil SEXY Amplifier article from few years back has this nice example of interesting naming: This is LM358, a Dual Operational Amplifier by Texas Instruments was seen in PC motherboard. Be deliberate or accidental, we believe that geek porn fans →
This week marks the year of Edward Snowden NSA revelations began. I have covered news on NSA relevations on my blog pretty much (Security trends 2013 and Security trends 2014). Register magazine article NSA: Inside the FIVE-EYED VAMPIRE SQUID of the INTERNET is a good wrap-up of what has been revealed over the years and →
Ever wanted to start hacking the kernel? Don’t have a clue how to begin? Let us show you how it’s done… Be a kernel hacker – Write your first Linux Kernel module is article is a good starting point to learn about Linux kernel programming. Kernel programming is often seen as a black magic because →
I was some day wondering how to connect IO to Android smartphone or tablet.One well known option is to use IOIO or IOIO-OTG board connected to Android device USB port. The IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) is a board specially designed to work with Android devices and robust connectivity to an Android device via a USB or →
10 Articles Every Programmer Must Read web page is a nice collection of links to “What Every Programmer Should Know” articles worth to look at. You will see classic what every programmer should know article from topics like memory, Unicode, floating point arithmetic, networking, object oriented design, time, URL Encoding, String and many more. This →
Arduino Leonardo is a micro-controller board based on the ATmega32u4. This board form factor and functionality is quite similar to Arduino UNO (7.1 cm x 5.3 cm x 1.5 cm ; 20 g) , with the exception that the USB interface is built into the micro-controller itself instead of using external serial-USB converter IC on →