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Step by step into a droid future

Dataconomy

Meanwhile, companies like Pebble started experimenting with smartwatches, bridging the gap between fashion and technology. Wearable computers may appear sleek and unassuming on the outside, but beneath their stylish exteriors lies a complex integration of hardware, software, and communication technologies.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Technology Short Take 133

Scott Lowe

Netflix has a good post on how they use prioritized load shedding to provide a good user experience during system outages. Servers/Hardware. In the last Technology Short Take , I mentioned that some testing with macOS Big Sur indicated that Apple had left itself a backdoor for network traffic from its own applications.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Like it or not, systemd looks like it’s here to stay. (As an aside, I do find it fascinating that new storage startups often emerge with support for Linux first, then add other operating systems afterward.). Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Yes, please! (I

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Technology Short Take #83

Scott Lowe

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #83

Scott Lowe

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60
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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

October 2016: Cook tells BuzzFeed News that while “VR has some interesting applications,” AR is superior to VR because “there’s no substitute for human contact. The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away.

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