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2:26 pm Mon
May 24, 2010
I met 8-year-old Sylvia and her parents at Maker Faire this weekend. She handed me a cute business card with robots she drew on it. The card had a URL for her Super-Awesome Maker Show, and I watched episode 1. It's super awesome!
Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show: Episode 01, Drawdio
Here’s an ad from Hikvision, the worlds’ largest security camera company, boasting of its products’ utility in detecting people’s ethnicity. James Vincent writes that it “speaks volumes about the brutal simplicity of the techno-surveillance state.” [via @CharlesRollet1, who points to an archived webpage that details the “Uyghur detection” feature]
The Verge’s Dieter Bohn reviews Microsoft’s Surface Pro X laptop. It’s pretty and it’s small, but it’s slow. … the core of Windows 10 runs just fine for me [but] there are still occasional, confounding slowdowns, especially when waking from sleep. In general, I just didn’t have as strong a feel for what would and […]
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Just about everybody from small-time app developers to big database administrators loves Linux. But just because it’s open-source doesn’t mean its secrets are open to everybody. For that, you need a comprehensive training program like the Complete Linux System Administrator Bundle. If you’re chasing any kind of career in coding, this is the online regimen […]
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