For DevOps and agile to move forward in the year ahead, it’s important that the business understands what’s in it for them. ‘One of the biggest challenges to pursuing DevOps is a lack of urgency.’ …read more Source:: ZDNet

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the New York Times: Twirling above a strip of land at the mouth of Rotterdam’s harbor [in the Netherlands] is a wind turbine so large it is difficult to photograph. The turning diameter of its rotor is longer than two American football fields end to end. Later…

We’re on iOS 14, but there’s still plenty of work Apple could do to make it better come iOS 15. …read more Source:: ZDNet

For whom the return key tolls 12BoC Ah, Christmas dos. Remember them? A chance to humiliate oneself in front of colleagues and make the odd drunken confession or two*. Welcome to the tenth whoopsie of our Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC) series*… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Printers are all well and good, but they’re generally limited to smaller paper sizes and use expensive ink. If you instead want to produce art on a larger scale, a plotter can be a great way to go. [tuenhidiy] built a tidy example using an old blackboard as a base. These days, such a build…

Want a security camera that identifies faces? Here are our favorites. …read more Source:: CNet

Want to keep an eye on your home for less money? We’ve got you covered. …read more Source:: CNet

Mozilla is “investigating” a design refresh for its Firefox browser. Ghacks reports that the refresh is referred to internally as “Photon.” Information about the design refresh is limited at this point in time. Mozilla created a meta bug on Bugzilla as a reference to keep track of the changes. While there are not any mockups…

Like many of us, [Emily] found herself on COVID-19 lockdown over the summer. To make the most of her time in isolation, she put together an optical audio decoder for old 16 mm film, built using modern components and a bit of 3D printing. It all started with a broken 16 mm projector that [Emily]…

Microsoft’s LinkedIn has a seemingly comfortable position as the ‘Facebook for business.’ Yet when it suggests I should work for Facebook, it’s worth wondering what goes on in LinkedIn’s algorithmic head. …read more Source:: ZDNet