François Hollande’s presidency has taken a fresh turn for the worse after a poll showed he would lose to Marine Le Pen tomorrow, as the far-Right leader claimed her National Front party is “the centre of gravity” of French politics.
Sam Bland has spent a lot of time with Google Goggles. He’s learned how it sees the world and how it communicates — they play games together.
There’s a sea of interesting public data out there just waiting to be tapped into, but there’s a problem — most people have no earthly idea how to access it. And even if they’re able to make some headway, there’s still an untold number of connections between that data and even..
Charts can help us understand the aggregate but they can also be deeply misleading. Here’s how to stop lying with charts without even knowing it.
Article pages now have added depth and context, providing more opportunities for readers coming from social media to discover more content.
Over the last few years, as hacking has moved out of the shadowy corners of the web and into the mainstream, the world has become increasingly familiar with the tools and techniques involved. One of the ones you hear about most frequently is the DDoS, or distributed denial of service attack—not an attempt to hack a web site so much as bring it to its knees by swamping it with activity.
Kickstarter-funded Bitponics was showing off its finished product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Hardware Alley today in New York, which is shipping out to backers in the next few weeks according to company cofounder Michael Zick Doherty. The Bitponics system is a cloud-based hydroponic garden ma..
