In the 1980’s, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote a suite of computer programs to simulate evolution. These artificial life programs were integral to Dawkin’s work on evolution, and in particular to his ground-breaking books The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable. Mount Improbable, an interactive site is based on his original code. A few minutes of […]
Read More →Attach AirBar magnetic strip and plug in the USB port to your PC and boom your old notebook is now having a touchscreen. Use Windows gestures like Pinch, swipe, zoom and scroll. It does not drain away your battery. Works with your fingers, gloves, brush or whatever. AirBar projects an invisible light field on the […]
Read More →Capture The Flag(CTF) are computer security/hacking competitions which generally consist of participants breaking, investigating, reverse engineering and doing anything they can to reach the end goal, a “flag” which is usually found as a string of text. A CTF is a system of increasingly-difficult challenges that can’t be too easy or too hard. A well-designed […]
Read More →Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) empowers developers by providing a modular open source toolkit based on modern JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 design and development principles. Oracle JET is targeted at intermediate to advanced JavaScript developers working on client-side applications. It’s a collection of open source JavaScript libraries along with a set of Oracle contributed JavaScript […]
Read More →Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript programming language, has unveiled his latest project: Brave, a Web browser that blocks ads by default. Users also have the options of replace, block, or allow ads and tracking. Brave Software, the company behind the eponymous browser, will take a 15 percent cut of the […]
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