Friday, April 1, 2016

Tesla Model 3, Microsoft's bots: Podcast 261

Wired podcast

Tesla has unveiled its Model 3, and we discuss Microsoft's plan to make artificial intelligence bots the new apps. 

By: WIRED.co.uk,

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Web Development Reading List #131: Git 2.8, CSS Grids And The Key To Good Code


  

Although it's April 1st, and people go all crazy making up jokes and spreading hoaxes, I'm sending out this edition to you without any April fools. Instead, I want to challenge you to put more effort, more thoughts into your code.



Build what matters


Instead of blindly following a given path to build the solution with the least effort, what about thinking more about your users? Wouldn't a lot more users benefit from you spending an additional hour on building a form on your own instead of relying on a third party that involves tracking? Wouldn't they benefit from a smaller website that doesn't contain big libraries?

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Barbie's reinvention inspired a tidal wave of change at Mattel

The toy-maker is reimagining its entire stable of brands

Here's what's happening in the hedge fund and alternative investment space today…

Here's what's happening in the hedge fund and alternative investment space today…

Archaeologists may have discovered additional Viking settlements in the New World

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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a second Viking settlement in the New World. The site could change our understanding of how the Norse settled the North American continent and shed new light on their trade relations with indigenous cultures.

Here's what's happening in the hedge fund and alternative investment space today…

Here's what's happening in the hedge fund and alternative investment space today…

Thursday, March 31, 2016

This beetle-computer hybrid is controlled by humans


Researchers have created a remote-controlled living robot beetle with adjustable gait and walking speed

By: Matthew Reynolds,

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