Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.
New Scientist – News » Saturn’s flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge
The Cassini spacecraft just made its final flyby of the small moon Atlas, grabbing the best pictures yet and showing a surprising softness [Link]
ProgrammableWeb.com » Twilio's Top 3 Tips For Building APIs So Developers Actually Use Them
Harnessing the power of APIs is the key to competing in the new era of software. APIs provide the agility developers and businesses need to iterate and innovate quickly, and they’re everywhere. Businesses all over the world are looking to roll out or even acquire APIs, but if they don’t succeed at winning over developers, those services are not likely … [Link]
Popular Science » The Pentagon just dropped the 'mother of all bombs,' its biggest non-nuclear weapon
Military It's still orders of magnitude smaller than Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima Everything you wanted to know about the MOAB bomb. [Link]
Popular Science » 10 ways to shield yourself from the sun
Gadgets Protection for vampires and shade lovers 10 ways to shield yourself from the sun. Read on. [Link]
ProgrammableWeb.com » Kaltura Releases Mobile Video Player SDK Version 3.0
Kaltura, a video platform provider, has released version 3.0 of its Mobile Video Player SDK for Android and iOS. The latest version of the Kaltura Mobile Video Player SDK has been designed from the ground up so that it is leaner and load faster than the previous version (2.0).
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Popular Science » The curious story of Magic Girl, the would-be greatest pinball machine of all time
Technology At $16,000 it was the world's most expensive pinball machine. It was also the most fraught. You've never played a pinball machine like Magic Girl, and you probably never will. [Link]
New Scientist – News » Fast CRISPR test easily detects Zika and antibiotic resistance
A method that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to recognise certain DNA sequences could make it quick and cheap to test for pathogens or genetic variants [Link]
New Scientist – News » Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea
The Cassini spacecraft has found molecular hydrogen spurting in the watery plumes from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, an energy source for anything that might live there [Link]
New Scientist – News » Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines
It’s harder than you think to make up a random sequence. Our ability to do so changes with age – and could give insight into cognitive decline [Link]
New Scientist – News » The bright lights of big cities help blackbirds thrive
Blackbirds do better when they nest near street lights, but all city birds seem to hate the noise [Link]
New Scientist – News » Meta-analysis muddle: reviews of evidence are too often flawed
Pooling many studies to get at the truth of which food is healthy or which pills work is being let down by bias and bad data, says John Ioannidis [Link]
New Scientist – News » Why the Trump administration is taking science out of forensics
Closing down the National Commission on Forensic Science cuts scientists out of advisory role, returning forensic science to lawyers and politicians – and may lead to more false convictions [Link]
New Scientist – News » Virtual syringe lets surgeons practise piercing skin and muscle
A virtual reality simulation of knee replacement surgery uses a stylus with haptic feedback so doctors can feel their way as they inject a painkiller [Link]
New Scientist – News » EVE Online gamers will seek real exoplanets in virtual universe
A new citizen science initiative within the EVE Online game will ask players to find distant worlds lurking in data from space observatory missions [Link]
O'Reilly News and Commentary » #Ebook Deal/Day: Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL
Get "Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook" today using code DEAL and save 50%!This sale ends at 2:00 AM 2017-04-14 (PDT, GMT-8:00). [Link]
Slashdot » Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins
Microsoft has officially retired the security bulletins this week, which were issued to detail "each month's slate of vulnerabilities and accompanying patches for customers — especially administrators responsible for companies' IT operations," writes Gregg Keizer via Computerworld. "The move to a bulletin-less Patch Tuesday brought an end to months of Microsoft talk about killing the bulletins that included an aborted … [Link]
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