Computer science pioneer Alan Curtis Kay, Ph.D., will deliver this year’s Lindberg-King Lecture in the Lister Hill Auditorium. His talk is noscriptd, “The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?” A child prodigy, Dr. Kay was…

Web rendering surface for Node applications. Contribute to GoogleChromeLabs/carlo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Many caveats apply, and the results involve radio frequencies long out of routine use.

The RBI flagged the matter in a report that has been placed before the audit committees of banks.

Most cities’ zoning and development regulations obsess over things that are easy to measure, like building height and density, at the expense of the things that actually determine whether we’re building quality places.

After he retired from making feature length films in 2013, legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki started work on a short film using CGI animation techniques, which he had never worked with before. For two years, a film cre

In Apache Spark 2.4, the community has extended this powerful functionality of pivoting data to SQL users. In this blog, using temperatures recordings in Seattle, we’ll show how we can use this common SQL Pivot feature to achieve complex data transformations.

They were fashionable and functional, used for dining and self-defense.

A series of benchmark results have shown up on Geekbench for the new iPad Pro, and its new eight-core A12X Bionic chip is truly a powerhouse. ...

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AT&T has blocked its HBO and Cinemax channels for Dish and Sling TV customers over a carriage dispute. This is the first channel blackout for HBO in its 40 years of operation. AT&T acquired HBO when it bought Time Warner for USD 85.4 million, a transaction…

The summary of tips and tricks used in Graveyard Keeper to make different graphical effects and apply them on a pixel art picture.

Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term. The score can determine the prices you pay, the products and ads you see and the perks you receive. “Not all customers deserve a company’s best efforts.”

In this paper we present Horizon, Facebook’s open source applied reinforcement learning (RL) platform. Horizon is an end-to-end platform designed to solve industry applied RL problems where datasets are large (millions to billions of observations), the feedback…

I recently did a corporate TLA+ workshop and some people asked what TLA+ specs look like in practice. If you looked at the most common public examples, you’d probably come away thinking that people only used it for critical consensus algorithms. This is a…

Apple reported its fourth quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, November 1, 2018.

For the last month or so, I’ve been playing with a new project during my work at Collabora, and as I’ve already briefly talked about at XDC 2018, it’s about time to talk about it to a wider audience.