Ted Martin
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Imaginative Man Builds a Video Game Inspired Folding Shed Door That Opens Geometrically
Warwick Turvey, a very handy logistics professional who lives in Mackay, Queensland, Australia built a really wonderful shed door that folds open and …
Web HostingThis robot maintains tender, unnerving eye contact
Humans already find it unnerving enough when extremely alien-looking robots are kicked and interfered with, so one can only imagine how much worse it will be when they make unbroken eye contact and mirror your expressions while you heap abuse on them. This is the future we have selected.<p>The …
RoboticsMicrosoft Patch Tuesday: 60 vulnerabilities resolved including two active exploits
A total of 19 vulnerabilities are deemed critical, including two zero-day flaws being actively used in the wild.<p>Microsoft's Windows Patch Tuesday …
Information SecurityFreezing Your Code — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
Freezing Your Code¶<p>“Freezing” your code is creating a single-file executable file to distribute to end-users, that contains all of your application …
Python ProgrammingParrot tells firefighter to 'f*ck off' during rescue attempt
This bird was not in the mood to be saved.<p>Jessie, a bright yellow and turquoise Macaw parrot, escaped her home in Edmonton, UK over the weekend and …
London Fire BrigadeiOS Users: Don't Forget to Grab the 'Obscura 2' Camera App for Free
<b>iOS:</b> The words “Apple” and “free” are a bit like oil and water—just ask anyone who works at the company and doesn’t get to partake in the Silicon …
Apple StoreHyperloop at 5: Sci-fi transport quickly becoming more sci than fi
Hyperloop has been with us for half a decade now, but it's still hard to separate the hype from the reality.<p>In the five years since Elon Musk published his open-source concept for a supersonic floating tube-train, some very real progress has been made. But promises have also been broken, and the …
High-speed RailCanadian troops come to fight B.C. fires as some ask what took so long
Firefighters from around the world are battling wildfires across B.C., with more help on the way from the Canadian Forces.<p>But there are concerns the …
ForestsTurkey is boycotting iPhones, but it hurts Turkey more than Apple
Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan announced today that the country would boycott all electronics from the United States after President Donald Trump …
Interest RatesBARR-C Aims to Make Us Better Programmers
<i>“I’d spell ‘creat’ with an e.” – Ken Thompson, when asked what he’d change about Unix.</i>Look up “panacea” and you’ll find a bunch of C programming …
CompilersFlip your fridge, washing machine or dryer door for easier access
In small spaces, how your fridge, washing machine or dryer door opens can either mean easy access or aggravation.<p>Luckily, many large appliances are made so that the door can be opened from either side. The switching is simple, and all you need is a screwdriver or a No. 2 square bit driver.<p>Does your …
Washing MachinesWestminster car crash: Man arrested on suspicion of terror offences
<b>A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament.</b><p>The vehicle swerved into cyclists and pedestrians shortly after 07:30 BST, injuring three people.<p>The 29-year-old suspect is not believed to be known to MI5 or counter-terrorism police, …
ExtremismContractor confident Ottawa LRT construction will finish on time
The City of Ottawa's contractor is confident the new LRT system will be ready on time, but there is still a lot of work to do, according to the …
CanadaTrump can't reach NAFTA deal without Canada: Quebec chief negotiator
The Trump administration doesn't have the legal authority to sideswipe Canada and sign a bilateral trade deal with Mexico, Quebec's chief NAFTA …
CanadaMicrosoft stands up Azure Stack for government as JEDI contract looms
Microsoft announced today that it’s released Azure Stack for Azure Government at a time when it’s battling rivals at Amazon and other cloud companies for the massive winner-take-all $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract known as JEDI.<p>Azure Stack provides customers with a similar set of cloud services …
CustomersLenovo made a super thin laptop for people who travel for work
With a 4K HD display<p>Lenovo made a new business laptop that’s thinner and nearly as light as a MacBook Air, meant for people working on the go. It also made a meatier desktop replacement that will definitely challenge people’s biceps as they work out of hotels and airports.<p>The ThinkPad P1 is slimmer …
MacBook AirWith Pentagon cloud contract in the balance, Microsoft’s hybrid-cloud product, Azure Stack, now certified for government use
As the federal government reviews submissions from cloud computing companies for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud contract, Microsoft …
U.S. Dept. of DefenseDecorators in Python: What you need to know
Python decorators are a powerful concept that allow you to “wrap” a function with another function.<p>The idea of a decorator is to abstract away …
Python ProgrammingSmoke from hundreds of wildfires darkens skies over B.C.
<i>For the latest evacuation alerts and orders, visit Emergency Info BC.<br>For the latest road closures and conditions, visit DriveBC.</i><p>Hundreds of wildfires …
WildfiresMichael Dell gambled billions and saved his company — but can he do it again?
How Michael Dell played the game and saved his company from the brink<p>The first reports broke over five years ago: Michael Dell was planning to take his eponymous technology company off the public market.<p>The news came after a particularly bad year for Dell. Revenue in 2012 was down 7 percent year …
Michael DellLiberal government has no plans to bring back long-gun registry, Trudeau says
The Liberal government has no plans to resurrect the controversial long-gun registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Monday as Canadians struggled to come to terms with a deadly shooting last week that killed four people, including two police officers.<p>Trudeau, who spent the day visiting …
CanadaTake a look inside the Furby's leaked source code
The source code to the original Furby has leaked. If you were a parent in the 1990’s annoyed by its incessant chirping (or indeed, if you were a kid doing the annoying), now’s your chance to dive into its internals and see how it works.<p>The Furby’s source code is written in 6502 assembly. That said, …
NESThe SuitX exoskeleton gave me crazy strength
I feel superhuman.<p>I just lifted a 50 pound box like it weighed almost nothing -- no gym time required. I'm wearing an exoskeleton by SuitX that's supporting my back, using a clever system of springs and clutches to give me a boost.<p>Industrial exoskeletons, or exosuits, are designed to enhance your …
ExoskeletonsAnnouncing Azure Stack for Azure Government customers to enable IT modernization and tactical edge scenarios
<i>This post was contributed by Natalia Mackevicius, Program Director, Azure Stack at Microsoft.</i><p>Today, we’re announcing that Microsoft Azure Stack is …
Canadian Little Leaguer not able to join team at World Series due to immigration issue
As the other young baseball players from Whalley, B.C., ran to each other on the diamond to celebrate their national Little League championship …
World SeriesSecond Referendum Or End Of the Tory Party
The cold hard reality of what could happen to us is becoming clear<p>SEBASTIEN COURDJI via Getty Images<p>The Brexiteers would have us believe that the …
Great BritainExplaining blockchain basics
Following my studies of blockchain, I've focused to have a deeper understanding of what is a blockchain and how it works. Of course a lot of you may …
BlockchainGeneral Magic—how tech superfriends assembled, dreamt up smartphones, and failed
New film chronicles an overlooked tech company with a landmark idea and lessons to share.<p>The story of General Magic, which is chronicled in a new …
Silicon ValleyHands on with Windows 10 build 17733
Build 17735 is out for Insiders, so let's go hands on with all the latest changes found in the recent builds!We're back with another exciting Windows …
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