There is something that you realize really quickly when you start programming games, and it’s that materials are coded differently than anything else. They work almost in mysterious…

Apache Cassandra 4.1 is now available with updates to improve ease of use.  Apache Cassandra is a distributed NoSQL database, and is an open-source project under the Apache…

Some thoughts from an old fogey May 21, 2021 by ferniglab What is important for your career in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of…

Bloomberg reports the demise of Amazon Scout, the delightfully-shaped last-mile sidewalk delivery robot. Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said the Scout team was being disbanded and would be offered…

From a distance, they looked like clouds of dust. Yet, the swarm of microrobots in author Michael Crichton’s bestseller “Prey” was self-organized. It acted with rudimentary intelligence, learning,…

Maritime Launch Services Inc. (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF) and Nanoracks have signed a Letter of Intent with State Space Agency of Ukraine to support the development of a…

Looking for a data lineage tool? These are the key “gotchas” and features you should be asking about. Data lineage can be a mess. Think of it like…

Machine translation has come a long way since it was first developed in the 1950s. It’s said that the machine translation market will have a compound annual growth…

The key to any successful startup is close collaboration between product and engineering. This sounds easy, but can be incredibly difficult. Both groups may have conflicting goals and…

November 4, 2022 I’ve been in the software industry for 15+ years now, and as time goes on, I feel like I’m becoming increasingly delusional. As a fellow…