Day: April 9, 2020

Apple is Developing ‘Clips’ Feature For Using Apps Without Requiring Full Downloads

Apple is working on a new way to offer specific parts of third-party apps across the system without needing to have them installed, 9to5Mac has learned based on an early build of iOS 14. From a report: The feature would allow users to experience parts of an app’s functionality by scanning a QR Code. If…


Graph analytics and knowledge graphs facilitate scientific research for COVID-19

State of the art in analytics and AI can help address some of the most pressing issues in scientific research. Here is how top scientists are using them to facilitate coronavirus research. …read more Source:: ZDNet


No Windshield? No Problem, Says McLaren

All the best sports cars look like they’re moving when they’re just sitting there, and the lines on McLaren’s newest limited-edition plaything redefine that look of speed standing still. Maybe it’s the sneering headlights or the streamlined, reverse-1966 Batmobile styling. Whatever it is, the 804-horsepower two-seater project Elva looks like it’s leaping off the line…


AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where’s Docker Engine? Ah, ‘deemed unnecessary’

Bezos cloud crew chops ‘bells and whistles’ in favour of native support, adds shared storage Amazon Web Services has launched Fargate 1.4, an update to its serverless container platform that adds support for shared Elastic File System storage and removes use of Docker Engine.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Schneier on Hacking Society

How the hacker mindset and skill set could play a role in improving and securing societal systems, according to renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Cloudflare Dumps reCAPTCHA as Google Intends To Charge For Its Use

Internet web infrastructure company Cloudflare announced plans to drop support for Google’s reCAPTCHA service and move to a new bot detection provider named hCaptcha. From a report: Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google’s future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have “added…


Toyota, Denso work to promote coronavirus treatment development – Roadshow

Denso, which Toyota still holds a stake in, will support Canadian research into treatments. …read more Source:: CNet


Still on-premises? Iron out your hybrid cloud plan with the help of Nutanix

Find out how to widen your cloud options while keeping control Webcast While it’s trendy to go entirely off-premises and hybridize your cloud, many will nod and smile at the suggestion while having no intention of actually doing it.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Tekton Pipelines hits beta: ‘Ragdoll Norby’ to sort continuous integration for Kubernetes

And ‘difficult to understand, hard to debug’ PipelineResources have been deprecated Tekton Pipelines, the major component in an open-source project for CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) on Kubernetes, has reached the milestone of beta status.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Ultrasonic Sensor Helps You Enforce Social Distancing

If you’re going outside (only for essential grocery runs, we hope) and you’re having trouble measuring the whole six feet apart from other people deal by eye, then [Guido Bonelli] has a solution for you. With a standard old HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, an audio module and a servo to drive a custom gauge needle he’s…