America’s mayors have spent the past nine months tripping over each other to curry favor with Amazon.com in its high-profile search for a second headquarters. More quietly, however, a similar story has been playing out in startup-land.
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Count your bees with this Raspberry Pi project
Bees need all the help they can get. Thus programmer Mat Kelsey created a bee counter to see just how many of his winged honeymakers are hanging out in his hives. His system, which uses a Raspberry Pi and a machine learning algorithm that recognizes the number of individual bees entering a hive, is used […]
View More Count your bees with this Raspberry Pi projectUizard raises funds for its AI that turns design mockups into source code
When you’re trying to build apps, there is a very tedious point where you have to stare at a wireframe and then laboriously turn it into code. Actually, the process itself is highly repetitive and ought to be much easier. The traditional software development from front-end design to front-end html/css development to working code is […]
View More Uizard raises funds for its AI that turns design mockups into source codeExploit puts popular web and mobile apps at risk
A new exploit could allow users to bypass security checks in Electron, a popular cross-platform development framework. The exploit, posted by Trustwave, has been patched and developers should update their apps as soon as possible. The exploit could allow cross site scripting in some apps by turning on nodeIntegration, a method that allows the app […]
View More Exploit puts popular web and mobile apps at riskMicrosoft brings its Visual Studio App Center lifecycle management tool to GitHub
Late last year, Microsoft launched Visual Studio App Center, its new unified mobile app development lifecycle solution for developers who want to write iOS, Android, Windows and macOS apps. The service allows developers to automate the building, testing, distribution and monitoring of their Objective-C, Swift, Java, C#, Xamarin and React Native apps through a single […]
View More Microsoft brings its Visual Studio App Center lifecycle management tool to GitHub’90s kids rejoice! Microsoft releases the original Windows 3.0 File Manager source code
Microsoft has released the source code for the original, 1990s-era File Manager that is so familiar to all of us who were dragging and dropping on Windows 3.0. The code, which is available on Github under the MIT OSS license, will compile under Windows 10. File Manager uses the multiple-document interface or MDI to display […]
View More ’90s kids rejoice! Microsoft releases the original Windows 3.0 File Manager source codeHere are the five things I learned installing a smart mirror
I recently received a review unit of the Embrace Smart Mirror. It’s essentially a 24-inch Android tablet mounted behind a roughly 40-inch mirror. It works well when third-party software is installed. Here’s what I learned. It’s impossible to get a good photo of the smart mirror I tried a tripod, a selfie stick and every […]
View More Here are the five things I learned installing a smart mirrorGitLab adds support for GitHub
Here is an interesting twist: GitLab, which in many ways competes with GitHub as a shared code repository service for teams, is bringing its continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) features to GitHub. The new service is launching today as part of GitLab’s hosted service. It will remain free to developers until March 22, 2019. After […]
View More GitLab adds support for GitHubThe world’s largest DDoS attack took GitHub offline for less than tens minutes
In a growing sign of the increased sophistication of both cyber attacks and defenses, GitHub has revealed that it weathered the largest-known DDoS attack in history this week. DDoS — or distributed denial of service in full — is a cyber attack that aims to bring websites and web-based services down by bombarding them with so much traffic that their services and infrastructure… Read More
Apple is none too pleased with seeing leaked iPhone source code on GitHub
Apple’s legal team has been busy.
Less than 24 hours after Motherboard reported that a leaked version of some iPhone source code was posted to GitHub, the iBoot files in question have been pulled down and replaced with a Digital Millennium Copy…
Appcanary shuts down its vulnerability scanning service as the team joins GitHub
Appcanary, a Y Combinator-incubated service that helps developers scan the third-party packages and libraries they use to write their code for potential security vulnerabilities, today announced that it will shut down its service on June 1 and that the team is joining GitHub.
The two companies did not disclose the financial details of the transaction, but our understanding is that this is… Read More