Tomorrow it will be exactly a year since we wrote about 3D printers, now one of the staples of Maker Spaces in libraries. But for…
OPLIN 4cast #346: Arduino for Makers
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Tomorrow it will be exactly a year since we wrote about 3D printers, now one of the staples of Maker Spaces in libraries. But for…
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Shooting video with your smartphone is about to take on a whole new dimension with the advent of 360-degree lenses you can attach to your…
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There was an interesting posting on the codeinsecurity blog a little over a month ago, which we didn’t see until recently, called “The anti-virus age…
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The next big technology excitement looks like it may be the advent of smart watches – or maybe not. Smart watches in themselves are probably…
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Last month, Amazon decided to try to make some money by legitimizing “fan fiction,” the growing trend for fans of a story or book series…
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People who use Internet searches to place products in front of potential buyers pay a lot of attention to how the rest of us use…
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The recent revelation of the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, which the U.S. government has used to access people’s phone and Internet search data, has caused…
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Google has a lot of power to control which websites receive web traffic and which don’t, simply by altering the way they present search results.…
After reading the title of this post, you might jump to the conclusion that someone has finally created technology to effectively control rush-hour traffic. Sorry,…
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A couple of weeks ago, the National Literacy Trust in the UK released the results of a study of the reading habits of about 35,000 British…