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https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/mit-shows-how-smartphones-could-peek-around-corners  Magically seeing around corners to spot moving people or objects may not rank first in most people’s superhero daydreams. But MIT researchers have shown how they could someday bestow that superpower upon anyone with a smartphone. Their secret to peeking around corners is detecting slight differences in light patterns reflected from moving objects or →

Today is a special day: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th  Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which can be the case at least once every year, and up to three times a year. The superstition surrounding this day may have arisen in the Middle →

http://www.edn.com/design/analog/4458856/How-to-send-full-duplex-data-over-a-single–twisted-pair–CAT-5-cable?utm_content=bufferc3b4e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Higher data throughput, shorter response time, and lower installation costs are the key drivers behind the ongoing improvement efforts in industrial network design. That is why allowing the immediate and continuous exchange of binary data has made the full-duplex bus the preferred interface choice in point-to-point connections.  The world of RS-485 users is seeing →

https://opensource.com/business/16/6/managing-passwords-security-linux?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY →

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-caffeine-does-to-your-body-and-brain/ Many of us depend on caffeine – especially many coders. For starters, caffeine makes most of us feel more alert and awake. But while it can keep us focused, too much can also backfire. And it also affects everything in our bodies from our digestion to our metabolism and vision. Caffeine excites our brain →

https://www.flightradar24.com/ This is a cool service when you want to know what is happening when flights are late. Flightradar24 is the best live flight tracker that shows air traffic in real time.  Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides you with real-time information about thousands of aircraft around the world. The service is currently →

I have written on journalism and media trends eariler few years ago. So it is time for update. What is the state of journalism and news publishing in 2017? NiemanLab’s predictions for 2017 are a good place to start thinking about what lies ahead for journalism. There, Matt Waite puts us in our place straight →

https://medium.com/@likid.geimfari/the-list-of-interesting-open-source-projects-2daaa2153f7c#.7meqjqdvv →

http://hackerboards.com/open-source-lab-on-a-board-costs-29/ →

http://www.zdnet.com/article/snoopers-charter-expansive-new-spying-powers-becomes-law/ 2016 looks too much like “1984″. →