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It can be difficult to keep track of the progress being made in robotics, but one useful (if informal) marker is how good machines are at assembling Ikea furniture. OK, now these robots are starting to scare me
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Wow, two robots did what robots are designed to do!
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Glitch is a simple and powerful open-source canvas for experimenting on the web—and after a year of beta testing, it's ready for artists and coders to get stuck in. again?
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"Glitch makes programming on the web slightly less horrible" doesn't have the same impact.
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Me thinks the product name could use an overhaul. Whats next on the product pipeline, an operating system called Crash?
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There seems to be a glitch on that page. Where the images (or videos?) are supposed to be, all I see are big black boxes with
Page Not Found
Maybe a typo? Or perhaps it's moved? inside them.
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Since it first appeared in the late 80s, it has been said that Java’s days are numbered or that is being gradually dropped by the market. But we can keep hoping, can't we?
tl;dr hint about her conclusions: it's from the Oracle website...
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It's also using the TIOBES ranking system. Since TIOBS puts java as 4.5x more used than javascript, the cancer that every web dev has to suffer with regardless of their preferred backend stack I think we know how credible it should be seen as.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper. "When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave."
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Microsoft believes it can do a better job than Google, and it has released a Chrome plugin, Windows Defender Browser Protection, that brings its own anti-phishing protection to Google's browser. Now we just need an Edge extension to render in Chrome, and the full circle of life will be complete
Hakuna mabrowsa!
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Cyber-attackers are turning to tools that automate the process of finding and hijacking vulnerable servers, a study has found. What kind of world are we in, when we can't even rely on hackers to put in an honest day's work?
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It's amazing how quickly mainstream news picks up stories like this. Automated hacking tools have been around longer than I care to think.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oracle has set out on a mission to create a universal virtual machine that can support multiple languages while providing consistent performance, tooling and configuration. "What... is your quest?"
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“The Committee should be willing to consider the design / quality of proposals even if they may cause a change in behavior or failure to compile for existing code.” "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war!"
Do you think anyone would notice if they removed pointers? 
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There’s a lot more to viability than just popularity, though popularity matters. Just because no one uses it, doesn't mean no one uses it
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Researchers for the social network taught people to feel 100 words on their arms with a wearable prototype. And now I'm feeling silly
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I sense an overuse of the poo emoji in the near future...
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I can see that getting "repurposed" to fit other body parts ... "Oh! Like me! Like me! Again!" 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make all file operations on Windows run at one tenth their normal speed (or slower), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! A detective story
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Microsoft admitted yesterday that the reason it did not launch the Spring Creators Update for Windows 10 last week was because of technical issues the company encountered with the supposed final release. I thought that's what customers were supposed to find?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought that's what customers were supposed to find?
That makes at least two of us.
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I can see how naming releases by release date is less confusing than using random names like "Creators' Update" but isn't there an even easier system that the rest of us have been using for years? You know, the one where we just use incremental version numbers and rely on people's instinctive ability to realise that version 10.3 is more recent than version 10.2?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: You know, the one where we just use incremental version numbers and rely on people's instinctive ability to realise that version 10.3 is more recent than version 10.2?
MS product version numbers and names have been all over the place ever since Bill Gates decided to call Windows 4 Windows 95.
But usually there will be another number somewhere that follows something like the scheme you cite. I.e., the bigger the number the more recent the version.
Kevin
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But that had me thinking, how much effort would it be to actually embed machine readable data inside a dubstep track, while ensuring that the sound could be enjoyed by humans as well… wub wub wub
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I'm not entirely convinced that encoding in dubstep is the best approach to ensuring the sound could be enjoyed by humans.
(To be honest, I quite enjoy some dubstep, but it maybe doesn't have the broadest reach)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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