Hello WebAssembly
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems
There are multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems bundled by Ruby.It is reported at the official blog of RubyGems.
Red Lang goes blockchain
Here we are, ready to leap into the future. This is a new page opening in the Red history book. It is a great day for us to finally be able ...
A Visual Guide to What's New in Swagger 3.0
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden
Last year we launched new AWS Regions in Canada, India, Korea, the UK (London), and the United States (Ohio), and announced that new regions are coming to France (Paris) and China (Ningxia). Today, I am happy to be able to tell you that we are planning to open up an AWS Region in Stockholm, Sweden […]
Some fun with π in Julia
A Pi Day tour of π in Julia: how Julia represents π, computing it with inline assembly and Taylor series (Madhava and Machin), and finding guaranteed bounds with interval arithmetic.
Population-based training of neural networks
Neural networks have shown great success in everything from playing Go and Atari games to image recognition and language translation. But often overlooked is that the success of a neural network at a particular application is often determined by a series of choices made at the start of the research, including what…
Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
The Zen of Just Writing CSS
I would say this is the future, but we’re already doing it.
How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013)
A front-page report in today’s New York Times based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirms that the NSA, like the DHS, uses airline reservation data as part of its profiling and social network analysis of US citizens and foreigners. Today’s report also raises new questions, and suggests some…
An On-Device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection
Apple started using deep learning for face detection in iOS 10. With the release of the Vision framework, developers can now use this…
California updates laws around salary and criminal histories of job applicants
California has updated its labor laws around the salary and criminal histories of job applicants. Find out how to stay compliant.
IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
Lisk: Blockchain development in JavaScript
Company news, product updates, and guides for finance teams running money operations globally.
What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?
Ben Treynor Sloss interview with Niall Murphy, discusses about sre & sre roles and responsibilities; highlights how SRE differs from traditional operations.
Google Brain Toronto
A “vector” is a geometric object with two important properties: magnitude and direction. These two attributes might also describe Canada’s AI sector today, as key inves…
Making math more Lego-like
A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.
Ways to paginate in Postgres (2016)
Pagination, pervasive as it is in web applications, is easy to implement inefficiently. This post examines different methods of server-side pagination and their tradeoffs in PostgreSQL. Methods explored include limit-offset, cursors, keyset pagination, as well as more exotic techniques.
LogDevice: a distributed data store for logs
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Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroEarlier this year we performed research into Broadcom’...
HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present
Remember, in `may 1996`, the very first HTTP protocol version (HTTP/1.0) was born.
Fast desktop-scale extrusion 3D printing
On-demand printing: A new MIT 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts.