Instagram no longer intended for photo sharing
Facebook’s head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds. “We’re no longer a photo-sharing app or a square photo-sharing app,” Head…
Boondoggle: Oregon’s smart phone contact tracing app failure
Smart phone contact tracing apps are a technology whose time never arrived: Months after agency officials said they were actively “assessing the results” of a trial conducted at Oregon State…
Revisting UW IHME’s Covid-19 projections
This part of the post was written on September 4th, but not published until December 30. On September 4th, the UW IHME disease modeling team projected 410,000 deaths in the…
Thank you: Microsoft will continue paying wages of hourly vendor workers that have not been able to work since March
Very, very cool: First, Microsoft will continue to pay the wages of hourly workers of vendors that provided services on the company’s campuses before the pandemic but who have not…
Best tutorial on learning to use Fusion 360
Computer aided design (CAD) tools like Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks – are difficult to learn to use. Most available online tutorials are out of date as the software is updated…
What is the most power efficient (least electricity use) programming language?
Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Last year a team of six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate…
IOT, Covid: Smart Watch fitness trackers may help predict Covid-19 infections and outbreaks
Combines self reported data and information such as heart rate, from fitness trackers and smart phones to identify potential Covid-19 infections: Source: Early results from DETECT study suggest fitness trackers…
Software: Is coding a must-have life skill of the future?
“Kids who code early start thinking of themselves as people who can create. In the future, you can either be a creator or a consumer of technology. If you are…
Software: The greatest software error in history?
In The Price of Panic, a detailed, albeit dated, overview of the world’s Covid-19 response, the authors note the use of Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid simulator software – and its…
“Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google”
I stopped reading Ars Technica when I reached the last 5 words: The distinction between a program and an API makes intuitive sense to computer programmers who regularly use APIs…