Curious I.T.

How Design Thinking Turned One Hospital into a Bright and Comforting Place

Long dreary corridors, impersonal waiting rooms, the smell of disinfectant — hospitals tend to be anonymous and depressing places. Even if you’re just there as a visitor, you’re bound to wonder, “How can my friend recover in such an awful place? Will I get out of here without catching an infection?”<p>…

Les entrepreneurs européens ne rougissent plus face à la Silicon Valley

Brexit ou pas, l'écosystème de start-up européen est en passe de devenir un acteur majeur de la Tech à l'échelle mondiale, selon le rapport «<i>The</i> …

Here are all the crazy-advanced robots built by Google's Boston Dynamics group

Boston Dynamics, a robot group born out of MIT and currently owned by Google, makes absolutely incredible robots.<p>From giant dog robots to ones resembling humans, these are definitely the most advanced robots we've ever seen.<p>Here's Boston Dynamics' wild robots:

The future of 3D-printed prosthetics

The recent ubiquity of 3D printers and innovations in prosthetic design, manufacturing and distribution offer a viable solution for the millions of people living with limb loss around the world. In the United States alone, close to 200,000 amputations are performed each year, yet, with prosthetics …

Periodic Table of DevOps Tools

• GhGithub<br>• AwsAmazon AWS<br>• Gtgit<br>• DmDBMaestro<br>• ChChef<br>• PuPuppet<br>• AnAnsible<br>• SlSalt<br>• DkDocker<br>• AzMicrosoft …

Global Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker

After over a year of development and production use at Netflix, we’re excited to announce that our Continuous Delivery platform, Spinnaker, is …

Pushbroom Stereo : le MIT met au point un drone qui évite les obstacles

Tous les propriétaires de drone ont un jour eu la crainte que leur appareil percute un obstacle, la technologie Pushbroom Stereo risque donc …

5 Raspberry Pi Projects to Build This Weekend

Here are some of my favorite recent Raspberry Pi projects. Each project will take you less than a weekend and if you’re super quick, you might able to make them all before Monday morning.<p>Dig out your Raspberry Pi, grab a handful of components, and get making!<p>Security<p>With security vulnerabilities …

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

Most companies consider strong product management to be the “glue” that holds together products as they are being conceived of and built. They treat …

GoTTY - Share your terminal as a web application

GoTTY is a simple command line tool that turns your CLI tools into web applications.<p>Installation<p>Download the latest binary file from the Releases …

stable|kernel blog - Atlanta Mobile App Developers

Jeff Bezos responds to attack on Amazon’s employment practices

Following a New York Times piece on the alleged stifling work conditions at Amazon, a company spokesman forwarded an email to us penned by CEO Jeff Bezos:<p>Dear Amazonians,If you haven’t already, I encourage you to give this (very long) New York Times article a careful …

Dating app Once finds $3.5M to help you find ‘the one’

Don’t swipe right. Don’t swipe left. Just focus on one match, for one day. That is the solution that matchmaking app Once offers to its users to find “the one.”<p>New York-based app Once told VentureBeat that it received a $3.5 million seed round from Partech Ventures and some private investors to …

Exploding Software-Engineering Myths

October 7, 2009 | Posted by Microsoft Research Blog<p><i>By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research</i><p>At Microsoft Research, there are computer scientists and …

Handling five billion sessions a day – in real time

Since we first released Answers seven months ago, we’ve been thrilled by tremendous adoption from the mobile community. We now see about <i>five billion</i> …

Stratos' Bluetooth connected payment card works everywhere, available this April

Everyone wants a piece of the payments space and if the excitement for Coin proved anything, people want a single card that replaces all the separate ones they’ve already carrying around.<p>Stratos, launching today, is a new payments card that exists to replace every single plastic card in your …

A “calculus” for Open Data – Arnaud Sahuguet – Medium

A "<i>calculus"</i> for open data<p>by Arnaud Sahuguet, David Sangokoya<p>Open data makes great promises and offers untapped benefits for individual, public and …

Inside Adobe’s Innovation Kit

Need to unleash innovation in your company? Trying raising an army of Kickboxers.<p>No, it’s not quite what you think.<p>Adobe Systems has recently launched a program to drive innovation from within, the Adobe Kickbox. The Kickbox is a small, red cardboard box containing everything an employee needs to …

Bas Vodde on the LeSS Framework

At the recent Agile Singapore conference Bas Vodde spoke about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) – the scaling model he and Craig Larman have introduced. He …

Digital Nomad : quelques infos pour choisir un pays

Partir au soleil et travailler à distance ? Avant de faire vos valises, lisez ceci…<p>Selon la définition très formelle de Wikipédia, les digital nomad …

Aliens, Robots, Cheetahs, Oh My! Watch These “Face Hackers” Use Projectors To Modify Their Faces In Real Time

Happy Sunday! Ready to have your mind blown?<p>By mixing ultra-bright projectors and advanced facial tracking with some damned fine visual design, these guys are able to use their faces as a canvas some truly wild work.<p>Watch on as they morph from human, to alien, to cheetah, to robot overlord on the …

Monument Valley Team Reveals The Cost And Reward Of Making A Hit iOS Game

Games and the formula that leads to their success can be a bit of a mystery, perhaps more so on mobile. One of 2014’s big hits, both in terms of critical and audience success, was Monument Valley by ustwogames.<p>The isometric 3D puzzler was breathtaking in terms of its visual design and had nice …

tidytabs

The problem<p>Like a buck showing off its woods, I often end up with several browser windows opened, each exposing many tabs corresponding to a common …

iCloud Development Held Up By 'Deep Organizational Issues' at Apple

Development on new features for iCloud is being held up by "deep organizational issues," according to a new report from <i>The Information</i>, which suggests organizational problems are complicating iCloud products and holding up releases. Much of <i>The Information</i>'s report requires a subscription to access, …

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