It was a slow news day, but there is still plenty to read. CoinLab shows us that anonymity is not quite guaranteed when dealing with Bitcoin. They give us an interesting looks at what information you can find when looking at the data. Mark Suster has an excellent article on Both Sides of the Table… Read More Geek Reading July 1, 2016 #1140
Some interesting acquisition news starts our week, with both items reported by VentureBeat. First, Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs. Next, Samsung buys Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Joyent will continue to operate as a separate company, so no major concerns there. On Digital Trends, they talk about a man who built a… Read More Geek Reading June 20, 2016 #1131
Starting our day, The Android Blog talks abou ta new feature, Nearby, which allows you to discover things around you. It obviously requires Location services to be active, but it supposedly requires bluetooth as well, which might mean it will be hooking into beacons at some point. Tim Romero’s post about turning down investment money… Read More Geek Reading June 13, 2016 #1126
There was no major news from yesterday, so our focus will just be on good content. Ilya Sher gives us an excellent article on threads, race conditions and deadlock. This is a good read for anyone that needs to write code using threads or locks. On FastML, they talk about adversarial validation, something that is… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113
Amazon dumped a pile of updates on us today, so we have a few highlights. First, AWS Elastic Beanstalk now has managed platform updates. Amazon Cognito adds user pools to their offering. AWS Device Farm updates so that you now get remote access to devices for interactive testing. There are a bunch of other updates… Read More Geek Reading April 21, 2016 #1089
Leading our day is a report from VentureBeat about Twilio adding Facebook Messenger as a supported platform. This is interesting because Twilio has been focused on SMS/MMS for a long time and adding Messenger could change the pricing and overall dynamics of the service. WordPress released v4.5 “Coleman” of their CMS. As always, it is… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2016 #1084
We have some interesting stories for today. First, from The National Museum of Computing, we get the “Lorenz” story. It is a bit of historical computing that many people tend to forget about. At Overtone Recipes, we get a way to recreate Daft Punk’s Da Funk. I know it is a bit different than my… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2016 #1080
Today we start with a huge list of data mining, data science and machine learning blogs from KD Nuggets. There are a lot of good sources, some of which I already share, so if you are interested in those topics definitely take a look. On FastML, we get an excellent post on Bayesian Machine Learning.… Read More Geek Reading March 30, 2016 #1073
My apologies to those of you that expect a new post every weekday. I took a day off from work and the internet 🙂 While I am sure I missed a bit of news over the weekend, I still have a good list of articles for you today. First, Docker announced the beta of clients… Read More Geek Reading March 28, 2016 #1071
Another slow news day yesterday, so we have a continued focus on development. First, on NOUPE they talk about the Google Resizer tool which shows you how your site responds to different sized devices. It is not a perfect tool, so depending on how you developed for mobile, you might not be getting the right… Read More Geek Reading March 4, 2016 #1056
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