With their special requirements, naval aircraft are different from their land-based counterparts. The UK’s Fleet Air Arm Museum museum celebrates 100 years of these amazing planes. …read more Source:: CNet

The annual Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing coincided with a contentious round of Senate hearings over sexual assault accusations. …read more Source:: CNet

Ford uses technology to save money and speed up development, whether it’s for NASCAR or family cars. …read more Source:: CNet

His biographer talks about Armstrong’s experiences as a pilot and astronaut, and why the new movie has a dark side to it. …read more Source:: CNet

Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, thinks it’s broken and he has a plan to fix it. The British computer scientist has announced a new project that he hopes will radically change his creation by giving people full control over their data. Tim Berners-Lee: This is why I have, over recent years,…

Some legged robots end up moving with ponderous deliberation, or wavering in unstable-looking jerks. A few unfortunates manage to do both at once. [MusaW]’s 3D Printed Quadruped Robot, on the other hand, moves in rapid motions that manage to look sharp and insect-like instead of unstable. Based on an earlier design he made for a…

Your iPhone buying guide for Apple’s three new phones. …read more Source:: CNet

“There is a kind of programming trap I occasionally fall into that is so damn irritating that it needs a name,” writes Eric S. Raymond, in a new blog post: The task is easy to specify and apparently easy to write tests for. The code can be instrumented so that you can see exactly what…

If you have a microcontroller to program, it can be an easy enough process to hook up a serial lead and perform the task. If however you have hundreds of microcontrollers on PCBs to program, connecting that lead multiple times becomes an impossibility. In manufacturing environments they have pogo pin jigs, an array of spring-loaded…

Mads Torgersen, the lead designer of C# at Microsoft, remembers “Project Roslyn,” which built an open-source, cross-platform compiler for C# and Visual Basic.NET “in the deepest darkness of last decade’s corporate Microsoft: We would build a language engine! A unified, public API to C# code: We would redefine the meaning of “compiler”. Of course, once…