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Google is releasing mini-games http://sdt.bz/67634 to developers to show off Google Glass' gaming capabilities. The mini games include Tennis, Balance, Clay Shooter, Matcher and Shape Shooter, built to showcase how Glass' voice invocation, sensors and simplicity lend themselves to quick, easy gameplay.
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President Obama has commissioned a comprehensive review of Big Data and privacy http://sdt.bz/67631. Senior White House advisor John Podesta has been tasked with leading a group including Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, presidential science adviser John Holdren, Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to look at how data collection and analysis are affecting everyday privacy. According to Podesta's blog post http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog..., upon completing their review the group expects to provide the president a report on future technological trends examining the questions of collection, availability and the use of Big Data for the government and nation.
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JavaScript leapfrogged Java as the top-ranked programming language http://sdt.bz/67625, with PHP, C# and Python rounding out the Top 5. The RedMonk bi-annual rankings were devised by selecting and counting repository languages from GitHub and StackOverflow. In the January 2014 Programming Language Rankings just released http://redmonk.com/sogrady/201..., Python fell one spot from last year while Ruby fell two to #7, as C# and C++ both moved up and CSS made its first appearance at #10.
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rjmarvin writes:
Intel and NVIDIA are taking diverging paths in 2014. The two companies, brought together back in the mid-90s by OpenMP, are pulling away from each other, pushing supplemental high performance computing capabilities. Intel's HPC offering is its new line of Xeon Phi coprocessors. NVIDIA, on the other hand, is taking a different route by pushing OpenACC support into the GNU Compiler Collection http://sdt.bz/67623. NVIDIA looks to compile OpenACC applications with GCC, with the ultimate development goal of implementing OpenACC 2.0.
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rjmarvin writes:
Smartphone and password software provider SplashData compiled the “Worst Passwords of 2013” http://sdt.bz/67621 list from files containing millions of stolen passwords posted online in the past year. The most popular password of the year was '123456,' in a upset over the reigning champ, 'password.' The company stated that this year’s list was influenced by the 38 million passwords released in the Adobe breach http://sdt.bz/65281, accounting for passwords such as “adobe123” and “photoshop.”
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Recounting the breach http://sdt.bz/67613 to a House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee panel last week, TrustedSec CEO David Kennedy called his attack "rudimentary." Kennedy previously testified about the security vulnerabilities in Healthcare.gov last November, and said it has only gotten worse. Along with 8 other white hat hackers, they signed and released a joint statement https://www.trustedsec.com/fil... about how the glaring vulnerabilities in Healthcare.gov and the lack of security best practices have made a massive identity theft breach all but inevitable.
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rjmarvin writes:
Microsoft released the final version http://sdt.bz/67610 of Update 1 for Visual Studio 2013, targeting a few key areas for fixes and improvements based on customer feedback. The main components of the update were for better Internet Explorer support for older versions than IE10, along with fixes in debugging, Direct Graph Markup Language, Visual C++, ASP.NET frameworks and tools and XAML tools.
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rjmarvin writes:
Google released version 1.1 of its Dart open-source web programming language today, with new features and improved tools http://sdt.bz/67599. The Dart Editor is updated with improved debugging, code implementation and more descriptive toolkits, and new UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and documentation support command-line and server-side Dart applications. Google also highlighted benchmarks such as the Richards benchmark where Dart 1.1 is running 25% faster than JavaScript http://news.dartlang.org/2014/01/dart-11-features-up-to-25-faster.html, as part of the larger competition between Dart and JavaScript http://sdt.bz/67591 in creating more complex applications in the web development space.
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rjmarvin writes:
Google's Dart programming language looks to rewrite the rules of web development http://sdt.bz/67591. Dart co-creator Lars Bak explains how exactly Dart is designed to improve on JavaScript, particularly in writing larger, more complex web applications. On the other side of the web development space, Mozilla research fellow and ECMAScript project editor Allen Wirfs-Brock talks about the current state of JavaScript and how ECMAScript 6, targeted for implementation this December, addresses many of Google's criticisms with the first major enhancement to the language since 1999.
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rjmarvin writes:
The rate of change in the API economy is accelerating as more and more organizations understand the power provided by apps and APIs, and the agility provided by Big Data analysis. Five changes http://sdt.bz/67594 that will shape the API economy this year start with the difference between APIs and SOA, and the proliferation of app-specific APIs...
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rjmarvin writes:
Apple's new patented technology is a "variable device graphical user interface" that adjust and predictively remaps in response to motion http://sdt.bz/67585. Existing iPhone mechanisms like the accelerometer and gyroscope measure device movement interpreted by the GUI, which then makes adjustments such as enlarging elements and remapping displays to decrease user swiping errors are they're running or walking. The iOS interface was first filed for patent http://www.google.sc/patents/US20090100384 in 2007.
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Someone is finally pausing TV shows and movies to figure out if the code shown on screen is accurate or not http://sdt.bz/67573. British programmer and writer John Graham-Cumming started taking screenshots of source code from movies such as "Elysium," "Swordfish" and "Doctor Who," and when it became popular turned the concept into a blog. Source Code in TV and Films http://moviecode.tumblr.com/ posts a new screenshot daily, proving that, for example, Tony Stark's first "Iron Man" suit was running code from a 1998 programmable Lego brick.
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rjmarvin writes:
HTML5 has gained popularity ever since it was completed in December 2012, but its use in web development is still held back by 5 common misconceptions http://sdt.bz/67571 about the markup language. HTML 5 is a collection of features, not one big thing. Existing web apps don't need to be "converted" to HTML5...
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The Atheer One, an eyewear device that works as an accessory to Android smartphones, not only lets you view virtual objects but touch and move them in 3D space http://sdt.bz/67569. The Google Glass competitor projects a 26-inch Android tablet with a sensor depth capability called "air touch" that lets you touch and manipulate it. After a successful Indiegogo campaign http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atheer-one-what-it-feels-like-to-have-superpowers that raised the initial $100,000 with 25 days to go, Atheer Labs has raised $1.5 million more of a planned $6.1 million funding round. Through Android compatibility the augmented reality glasses already support more than 800,000 Google Play apps. The SDK will ship early this year with the Atheer One to follow by the end of 2014.
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rjmarvin writes:
Since Monday morning there have been a flood of new hardware out of Las Vegas, with product announcements keynotes have been firing off about new wearable technology and the chips to power them, curved TVs, further advancements in virtual reality, and all manner of gadgets and gizmos http://sdt.bz/67556. The most outlandish wearable gadgets include a smart baby onesie, an Internet-connected toothbrush, smart jewelry with UV sensors and a smart patch that detects slouching posture. Not to mention celebrity cameos from Michael Bay and the SNL Weekend Update crew to Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown driving a DeLorean.
