Epic Games — a large video game vendor is taking on Apple — one of the largest smartphone vendors in court regarding Apple’s decision to suspend Fortnite from the app store. Epic Games allegedly violated Apple’s app store policy by creating a payment option that bypasses Apple’s payment system. Apple collects a percentage of apps’…
Web hosting is a service that allows you to run software remotely and make it accessible anywhere in the world via the Internet. However, there are many variations of web hosting services — each of which suit a certain niche. Below I cover which type of web hosting service you could use for common website…
EOS.IO 2.0 has been released. The latest version of the blockchain development platform now has EOS VM, multi-threading support in net_plugin, and more.
NVidia has been manufacturing artificial intelligence-focused single board computers (SBCs) for years. They were powerful, however, they weren’t cheap. The Jetson TX1 and TX2 were both over $400 dollars and equipped for computer vision applications (for example: autonomous cars). One of the most popular single board computers out there right now is the Raspberry Pi,…
Microsoft has open-sourced the Project Zipline data compression technology used in their Azure cloud services. Project Zipline is capable of compressing datasets with up to two times the compression ratio of the Zlib-L4 64KB model. At a time when the scale of data collection and storage has increased, the need for strong data compression is…
Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) have been helping type 1 diabetes patients to respond to their insulin needs quicker via continuous monitoring and notifications, but there’s plenty of room for improvement. Incorrect insulin levels can be life-threatening, and so sleeping through the CGM’s alarm is potentially dangerous. For Dana Lewis, this was a problem (usually at…
When an organization decides to outsource one or more than one operations of its business, it does so to make sure that they can operate efficiently and the operations are managed at minimum possible costs. Outsourcing lets a business benefit from the core competencies of another business who might be having a competitive advantage in…
Amazon Web Services, one of the largest web hosts in the world has announced that they are now offering blockchain templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric. This aims to make it easier for AWS users to deploy their own blockchain networks. Ethereum is a global, blockchain-based decentralized app platform (DApp) on which people have deployed…
This Hercules RM57L code sample shows you how to construct your very own PWM fan speed controller using few lines of code, and only a few parts.
If you’ve been forced to migrate from a Back-end As A Service provider (BaaS) like Parse, or pre-built back-end framework such as Deployd, you’re not alone. One alternative is to create your own API using a back-end programming language and the help of a database management system (DBMS) such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or MySQL. API is…