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Intel Takes a Step Back In The Internet-of-things

https://www.open-electronics.org/intel-takes-a-step-back-in-the-internet-of-things/ A few weeks ago,  Intel has quietly discontinued its three SBC boards, the Joule, Edison and Galileo. These pretty much represented the presence of x86 chips in the IoT market. SBCs are perfect for the IoT space. So, why would Intel kill off its SBC boards? It could be read as an admittance that its IoT strategy has not →

How Google Turned Open Source Into A Key Differentiator For Its Cloud Platform

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2017/07/09/how-google-turned-open-source-into-a-key-differentiator-for-its-cloud-platform/#55587878646f Open source software has come of its age. Today it’s impossible to think of a platform company that doesn’t have an open source strategy. Even Microsoft – a company that once compared open source to cancer – has embraced it fully.  Of course, we have companies like CloudBees, Red Hat and Docker that built →

How to install PHP 7.x as PHP-FPM & FastCGI for ISPConfig 3.1 with apt on Debian 8 and 9

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-php-7-for-ispconfig-3-from-debian-packages-on-debian-8-and-9/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3B%2FwhvEjEgRhisaaV5VB6iug%3D%3D available now. PHP 7.1 is the next generation of the PHP programming language, it is up to 2 times faster than PHP 5.6 and 14 times faster than PHP 5.0 according to the release notes. The new PHP version is not 100% compatible with PHP 5.x as some deprecated API’s have been removed. →

These Four Lifestyle Changes Will Do More To Combat Climate Change Than Anything Else | IFLScience

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/these-four-lifestyle-changes-will-do-more-to-combat-climate-change-than-anything-else/all/ We’ve argued in the past that the most valuable thing you can do for climate advocacy is to vote for politicians that are pro-science and pro-environment. There are plenty of other things you can do too, but as highlighted in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the best courses of action are often rarely reported about. This may →

Chip Hall of Fame: Acorn Computers ARM1 Processor – IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/chip-hall-of-fame-acorn-computers-arm1-processor Unsatified with the processors then available on the market, the Acorn engineers decided to make the leap to creating their own 32-bit microprocessor. ARM1 was released in 1985. They called it the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM. In 1990, Acorn spun off its ARM division, and the ARM architecture went on to become the dominant →

Reverse Engineering One Line of JavaScript

https://www.alexkras.com/reverse-engineering-one-line-of-javascript/ This article analyses one line of JavaScript that renders an interesting moving image. You can see it in your browser here. This script was created by author of www.p01.org where you can find this and many other cool demos. The article writer found it was fun trying to understand the code. →

Reducing Arduino Power Consumption – Hackster.io

https://www.hackster.io/chauhannaman98/reducing-arduino-power-consumption-f8d49d?ref=explore&ref_id=trending___&offset=0 The ATmega328P, used on popular boards like the SparkFun RedBoard, Arduino Uno, and Pro Mini are actually quite power hungry for small battery powered devices (15 mA for UNO). It is possible to drastically bring power consumption down with just a few tricks. In this guide we’ll see if we can reduce the supply →