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  • Cyber Tea

    Just not my cup of tea.

  • Revolv Smart Home Service being shut down

    Remember the Revolv home automation hub? Probably not. The device was released in late 2013, and while fantastic, it largely flew under the radar before Google’s Nest division bought the company,…

    Well, neither do I remember the Revolv devices, and they’re apparently out of sale since they were acquired by Nest/Google. Now that their cloud service is being shut down, they make a good point for open standards though. Without the possibility to operate them further and their manufacturer out of business, the hardware will only be good as a doorstop starting May this year.

    via: TechCrunch

  • DIY Killer Drone

    Chainsaw Copter:

    Only in Finland.

  • Give us your password

    Give us your password and we tell you how strong it is.

    Yes. Really.

  • Microsoft's event-triggered serverless Azure

    After Amazon Web Services launched their Lambda offering in 2014, they apparently had some success. Just a few weeks after Google announced their serverless offering, today Microsoft also announced they’d be offering a technology to execute code event-driven, on demand.

    Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that lets programmers create event-driven triggers without deploying any underlying…

    via: TechCrunch

  • Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled

    Linux, the open source operating system that virtually powers all of webservers, billions of Android phones as it’s kernel just as well as the majority of home routers and IoT devices, turns 25 years this year. IEEE Spectrum runs an article on the history and why the open kernel became so successful.

    Timing, cost, and the right license made all the difference.

    Also, Linus Torvalds has an approach that would be called agile these days. Bringing a feature in place is more important than having the 100% solution, and Linus explains this approach in the accompanying Q&A session:

    I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.

    via: Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled – IEEE Spectrum

  • Business jargon we got used to

    Everybody hates management-speak and corporate jargon, but here are some terms that people used to think of as horrible jargon that we all got used to. Maybe one day we’ll all be leveraging deliverables without a secon

    via: Business jargon we got used to

  • Zigbee for #IoT

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    Dresden Electronic Raspbee

    Zigbee is a wireless protocol for applications not requiring lots of bandwidth, e.g. home automation, lighting or sensor networks. The idea is to create so called Personal Area Networks. The specification is standardized as IEEE 802.15.4.

    Dresden Electronic offers the Rasbee (Picture to the left) to get started with low budget Raspberry Pi Hardware.

  • John Oliver talks about Encryption

    John Olivers ‘Last Week Tonight’ on encryption in general and the the case Apple vs. FBI in particular.

  • Blah Blah blah … I don't care!

    Nice rant every technical person in the industry can relate to.

    Blah Blah blah … I don’t care! To hell with your tech marketing bull.

    Also:

    In tech, filtering signal from noise is a full-time job

    True.

    via: The Register