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Raspberry Jam at the National STEM Centre York, Saturday 8th June 2013

2013-05-20T17:35:00.017-07:00

A post from Mr Raspberry Jam himself, Alan O'Donohoe. This one promises to huge and fabulous, and the National STEM Centre is an outstanding venue. I am strangley drawn to joining the trans-Pennine convoy from Preston. "You may have seen that we are holding a big Raspberry Jam in York on Saturday 8th June, 3 weeks today.Read more »

The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars

2013-05-20T17:35:00.015-07:00

It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumb

Two Arduino-based Kickstarter projects worth a look

2013-05-20T17:35:00.013-07:00

Some weeks ago I read an article on the New York Times talking about Kickstarter. The author was exploring the logic of the platform and especially in which way backers shouldn't really be considered like investors. They aren't because their main aim is not looking for the project that will give them the greatest return on their money.Read more »

A brilliant trip back to the technological future

2013-05-20T17:35:00.011-07:00

Continue reading page |1 | 2 Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony Book information Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Joanna Zylinska Published by: University of Minnesota Press Price: $34.95 Lem concluded we should abandon analysis for creative activity (Image: Aleksander Jalosinski/Forum/Reuters/Corbis) WHEN Germany occupied Poland during the second world war, a young Pole was scratching a living under false papers as a car mechanic.Read more »

Customizing Unity

2013-05-20T17:35:00.009-07:00

?With Linux, it is easy to customize many settings and features including appearance. Unity (one of many desktop interfaces) is no exception. Unity is the desktop interface that is maintained and deRead more »

Sharing made simple for iOS apps

2013-05-20T17:35:00.007-07:00

Today we?re making sharing from your iOS apps e

NEC phone is liquid-cooled and gender-specific

2013-05-20T17:35:00.005-07:00

(Phys.org) ?Pink is the color of princess fairy-tale gowns, magic slippers, upscale cupcake icing, and everything else favorable to girls who just want to be girls. "Ladyphones" appear to be concepts Read more »

The Inflector class from Cake 1.2 ported to C#

2013-05-20T17:35:00.003-07:00

Source code provided by [url]http://www.thinkingmedia.ca[/url][code] /// /// The Inflector class takes a string and can manipulate it to handle word /// variations such as pluralizations or camelizinRead more »

Expectations high for next Xbox

2013-05-20T17:35:00.001-07:00

It's almost time for a new Xbox. Eight years have passed since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360, double the amount of time between the original Xbox debut in 2001 and its high-definition successor's laRead more »

Sally Ride National Tribute at Kennedy Center Tonight

2013-05-20T17:34:00.023-07:00

NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight's "Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy," a national tribute to America's first woman in space. The Read more »

International Space Station Program, Science Briefing Set

2013-05-20T17:34:00.021-07:00

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a news conference and social media event at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, May 22, to preview the upcoming Expedition 36 mission aboard the InternaRead more »

NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media

2013-05-20T17:34:00.019-07:00

NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will hold media availabilities at all three of the agency's centers in California this week, highlighting progress on the asteroid mission, commercial crew transportation and space technology development.Read more »

Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in NASA Student Launch Challenge

2013-05-20T17:34:00.017-07:00

The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build and fly small rockets Read more »

NASA, Bigelow to Discuss Private Sector Human Space Exploration and Development

2013-05-20T17:34:00.015-07:00

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency's Space Act Agreement with the company for its insight on collaboratiRead more »

NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride

2013-05-20T17:34:00.013-07:00

NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride WASHINGTON -- NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space.Read more »

The Inflector class from Cake 1.2 ported to Java

2013-05-20T17:34:00.011-07:00

Source code provided by [url]http://www.thinkingmedia.ca[/url][code]import java.util.ArrayList;import java.util.HashMap;import java.util.Iterator;import java.util.LinkedHashMap;import java.util.List;iRead more »

Terminology: Modules

2013-05-20T17:34:00.009-07:00

Learning modern modular frameworks like Backbone.js and AngularJS involves mastering a large amount of terminology, even jus

The Mood Lamp recognizes your facial expressions and turns them into light

2013-05-20T17:34:00.007-07:00

The Mood Lamp project by Vittorio Cuculo, is a system using interactions to communicate an emotional state to a physical object and receive back a coherent response. In particular, through your facial expression you communicate your emotional state to an RGB color lamp .Read more »

A week of symfony #333 (13->19 May 2013)

2013-05-20T17:34:00.005-07:00

A week of symfony #333 (13->19 May 2013) This week, the new Symfony 2.3 branch was created. In addition, the first Symfony 2.3 release candidate version was published, which includes tons of great small improvements. Lastly, one of the biggest Symfony events of the year, the Symfony Live Portland 2013 conference, will take place next week.Read more »

Maker Faire Google Hangout with Eben

2013-05-20T17:34:00.003-07:00

We?ll be talking more later this week about the New Out Of the Box System (NOOBS) wh

A look back at NASA's planet-pinpointing space 'scope

2013-05-20T17:34:00.001-07:00

The space agency says the Kepler space telescope is having equipment issues. With the mission threatened, we look back at Kepler's mind-expanding search for Earth-like exoplanets. (Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech) NASA announced this week that a key piece of gear on its Kepler space telescope has run into trouble.Read more »

New in the Swag Shop: recycled CD case pencils!

2013-05-20T17:33:00.021-07:00

These feel lovely when you sharpen them, have a beauteous Raspberry Pi logo at the end, and are made in solid colours from recycled CD cases. Buy some, look funky when you doodle, help fund computi

Robots Podcast #130: Autonomous lethal weapons

2013-05-20T17:33:00.019-07:00

In episode #130, interviewer AJung talks with Pete

RoboGames 2013: Combots-General vs Toro - (watch video)

2013-05-20T17:33:00.017-07:00

General faces off against Toro in an exciting Combots match at RoboGames 2013.Read more »

CakePHP Modular Admin And Structured Content - Cloggy

2013-05-20T17:33:00.015-07:00

Every website that we made, still need an administration area to manage their users,contents, and others. This is a mission of Cloggy. To help programmers to manage their admins.Today i want to introdRead more »