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Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at innovation

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab: Newspaper companies will continue to struggle with digital innovation without better cashflow — Newsonomics: Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at innovation Newsonomics: Razor-thin profits are cutting into newspapers’ chances at innovation http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/05/newsonomics-razor-thin-profits-are-cutting-into-newspapers-chances-at-innovation/ It’s taken lots of cuts to keep American newspaper companies even slightly profitable. But without better →

The future of Javascript

After almost 20 years, JavaScript is still growing by all measures: deployed apps, github usage, framework innovation, and of course standardized language evolution. The 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6, is all but done. ES7, the next edition, is under parallel construction in order to be finalized a year after ES6. Check out what →

Lock opening robot!

I just saw this interesting article: This Little 3-D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds article tells that a well-known hacker Samy Kamkar published on his website the blueprint and software code for a 3-D-printable Arduino-based lock-opening robot he calls the “Combo Breaker.” Attach it to any of millions of Master Lock combination →