It’s one thing to be able to transcribe music from a flute, and it’s another to be able to make a flute play pre-written music. The latter is what [Abhilash Patel] decided to pursue in the flute player machine, an Arduino-based project that uses an air flow mechanism and PVC pipes to control the notes…

Which programming language saw the biggest jump on TIOBE’s index of language popularity over the last year? Unlike last year — it’s not Python. An anonymous reader quotes TIOBE.com: It is good old language C that wins the award this time with an yearly increase of 2.4%… The major drivers behind this trend are the…

Save 45% on a subscription to multiplayer gaming on your PS4, PS3 or Vita. …read more Source:: CNet

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17-year-old Wolf Cukier made a big discovery on the third day of his internship at a NASA space flight center last summer. Iwastheone quotes ABC News: Wolf Cukier, 17…was tasked with going through data on star brightness from the facility’s ongoing Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission or TESS. The Scarsdale High School senior was looking…

Having many hands in API creation can quickly send API programs off the rails. Here’s a call for greater transparency to ensure the business is getting something for its money. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems — and now owned by Oracle — due to licensing issues,” reports ZDNet: As reported by Phoronix, Torvalds has warned kernel developers against using ZFS on Linux, an implementation of OpenZFS, and refuses…

With Tormach and Haas capturing a lot of the entry-level professional market for CNC machines, we don’t see too many CNC conversions of manual mills anymore. And so this power drawbar conversion for a Precision Matthews mill really caught our eye. What’s that, you say? Didn’t [Physics Anonymous] already build a power drawbar for a…

Q Acoustics has added a second bookshelf speaker to its excellent 3000i range, promising many of the benefits of a floorstander but in a more compact and cheaper design. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: I’m so ready to dump my kid into the arms of a robot. Does that make me a terrible parent? …read more Source:: CNet