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A 15-year-old British pilot led his team to victory in the inaugural World Drone Prix in Dubai. The event was organized by the World Organization of Racing D… Read More
Humanity was very proud to enter the cosmic age just 60 years ago. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite and The Soviet Union lau… Read More
Reduce, reuse, recycle or send it to space! On the face value of shuttling waste to space will definitely be a tidy response to the garbage menace. No more eyesore landfills. However, is the… Read More
Happy Holidays! Way back in Part 1, we looked at how to set up a Windows 10 UWP app that would use MonoGame to draw some sprites on the screen. If you are wondering how to move things around… Read More
The sounds are short lived and rare. For over a decade since the first cosmic sounds were detected, astronomers have been left scratching their pate in an attempt to explain the source of th… Read More
The first snowboard built in 1964 by a young surfing enthusiast Sherman Poppen. He bolted two kids’ skis together with a 1.2-meter plastic plank and rode it on the ice. Snowboards have… Read More
There’s high probability that the 28th January will likely pass rather quietly for most of the planet with little notice of it being Serendipity Day, arguably the most significant day… Read More
Weapons of war have crossed over to the mainstream. I am referring here to a specific piece of technology, UAV technology, or as we know them… Read More
Amazon isn’t planning to take a breather. Instead, the e-commerce giant is looking to completely redefine the delivery mechanism with the use of drones. The company has already complet… Read More
While Amazon is looking to solve last-mile delivery problems with the use of drones, its competitor Walmart plans on employing them within its retail stores. Yes, drones could soon become in… Read More
As a horror author I am always looking for a new setting for my next story. The area is almost as important as the story itself and can influence the direction the story will take. Most of t… Read More
My 22yr Navy carrier really make this hit 'home.'"Navy orders investigation of Pacific fleet after two recent collisions" by Lolita C. Baldor, Annabelle Liang, and Stephen Wright (AP)… Read More
GameMaker Studio is a free, code-optional game engine. It creates 2-Dimensional games and is a well-documented tool that has been a staple in the independent games community for many years… Read More
The C# language is great for developer's productivity and I'm glad for the recent push towards making it more suitable for high-performance applications.
Here is an example: C# 5 introduced… Read More
Keeping track of global shipping has previously suffered from a lack of data. Current tracking technology has transformed the problem into one of an overabundance of information, as huge amo… Read More
NOTE: During my 22yr carrier in the Navy (now retired) I served on a Court Martial Trial board. The charges in these cases are appropriate."Harsh legal charges for U.S. Navy ship… Read More
High visibility safety vests can be one of the most effective promotional items for your organisation. With the advancement in health and safety, most businesses have a need for safety vest… Read More
As part of our engineering processes in Microsoft, we often share best practices and stories of change across the engineering teams in the company. At our latest internal engineering confere… Read More
If you're familiar with C#, then you most likely heard that you should always override Equals and GetHashCode for custom structs for performance reasons. To better understand the importance… Read More
Welcome to the July update of the Developer Preview. With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. We also include over 90 resolv… Read More
Guest post by Nana Asiedu-Ampem University College London, Master of Engineering (MENG) student, Imperial College London, Computing Degree
Introduction
Psychotherapy is a form of treatment… Read More
By Mike O'Cull
The Kelly Bell Band is exactly the kind of genre-bending, rule-breaking, and color-smearing group the music scene of 2019 desperately needs. Originally formed 24 years ago to… Read More
Moving to the big city, whether it’s New York, Berlin or Los Angeles, is an inherently exciting concept. Whether you’re moving from the suburbs or a small town, whether you&rsquo… Read More
Major Offshore-Wind Developers are concerned that the President could take aim at their Fast-Growing Industry next, Affecting Two Major Projects recently announced in New York.
In recent d… Read More
Bicycle Safety in Los Angeles
A bicycle accident can cause devastating injuries and other losses for bikers and their loved ones. Cyclists can reduce their risk of injury by wearing appropri… Read More
There are several different methods for securely hashing a password server-side for storage and future authentication. The most common one (a.k.a. the one that FIPS allows you to use, if com… Read More
If you’re reading this wondering if you should stop using AES-GCM in some standard protocol (TLS 1.3), the short answer is “No, you’re fine”.
I specialize in secur… Read More
Dark matter is one of the most elusive substances known to mankind. It has been calculated to be five times more common than regular matter present all around us. It makes up about 85% of th… Read More
This is the first entry in a (potentially infinite) series of dead end roads in the field of cryptanalysis.
Cryptography engineering is one of many specialties within the wider field of s… Read More
A crater is formed by the impact of some solid object striking a planet’s surface or a moon. They can be found everywhere in the solar system, and most of the craters are thought to ha… Read More
Imagine you’re a software developer, and you need to authenticate users based on a username and password.
If you’re well-read on the industry standard best practices, you&rsqu… Read More
As we look upon the sunset of a remarkably tiresome year, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about cryptographic wear-out.
What is cryptographic wear-out?
It’s the thresho… Read More
Human beings are messy. They tend to leave Rubbish behind them wherever they go, and to expect someone else to clear that Rubbish up. This is true even in Outer Space. The Problem of Orbitin… Read More
Mission to Clean-Up Space Junk with Magnets set for Launch.
It's Invisible in the Night Sky, but above us there is a Cloud of more than 9,000 Tons of Space Junk, equivalent to the weight o… Read More
NIST opened public comments on SP 800-108 Rev. 1 (the NIST recommendations for Key Derivation Functions) last month. The main thing that’s changed from the original document published… Read More
It happened again. You were doom-scrolling on the hellsite (a.k.a. browsng Twitter) and stumbled upon some stranger’s tweet that was so stunningly ignorant that it almost seems artific… Read More
Bruising Questions https://gafacom.website/bruising-questions/ Health and wellbeingBruising Questions Many things can cause a bruise: minor injuries, falls, small collisions. While bruises… Read More
Our planet Earth is full of wonders and marvels. From nature and marine life in the oceans and rivers, mountains and waterfalls to the complicated yet miraculous structure of the human body… Read More
The Dawn of the IKEA Mafia - by Aron SolomonWhat’s more Swedish than Swedish House Mafia?Correct. The answer is “IKEA.”Even if you were thinking “Swedish meatba… Read More
Sundays are fun days. But we often spend them doing mundane tasks such as cleaning our homes. Though needful, we are mostly drained afterward and have little energy for extra activities. The… Read More
The Toyota Crown is a large sedan, a model that replaces the Toyota Avalon for 2023. The Crown name is one of Toyota’s oldest, a model that’s been absent from the U.S. for decade… Read More
The majority of drivers believe that aggressive cyclists are a threat to their safety, with many believing the problem is getting worse. Drivers are also largely unwilling to support a law a… Read More
The Ultimate Guide to Drone Buying: Hobby, Photography, and Racing
The Best Drone For You
Drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) are widely used for recreation and to take stunning aerial photogr… Read More
The Volkswagen Tiguan is a compact crossover utility vehicle that seats five. This model comes with a turbocharged engine paired with an automatic transmission. Power routes to the front or… Read More
Two people have died and another pedestrian has been seriously injured in a series of collisions in Coventry on Sunday morning. A pedestrian was hit by a car on Gosford Street and a cyclist… Read More
The Philippines summoned the Chinese Ambassador over two incidents in the South China Sea, filing a fresh diplomatic protest against China. One incident involved a collision between a Philip… Read More