Xamarin now free in Visual Studio
The Xamarin SDK is also being open sourced.
Hasnain says:
They do this AND they relicense Mono under the MIT license? Dayum
Posted on 2016-04-01T04:32:53+0000
From the Canyon Edge: Ubuntu on Windows -- The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
Dustin Kirkland is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, led by Mark Shuttleworth. Dustin leads the technical strategy, road map, and life cycle of the Ubuntu Cloud and IoT commercial offerings.
Is AlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal? | Quanta Magazine
The Go-playing program teaches itself to replicate something very much like human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.
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Posted on 2016-03-30T06:14:24+0000
Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes from Human T-lymphoid Cells by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing
We employed an RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 DNA editing system to precisely remove the entire HIV-1 genome spanning between 5′ and 3′ LTRs of integrated HIV-1 proviral DNA copies from latently infected human CD4+ T-cells.
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Posted on 2016-03-30T06:09:50+0000
Google BigQuery Public Datasets
A public dataset is any dataset that is stored in BigQuery and made available to the general public. This page lists a special group of public datasets that Google BigQuery hosts for you to access and integrate into your applications. Google pays for the storage of these data sets and provides publi…
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Posted on 2016-03-30T05:52:18+0000
Spotify raises $1 billion in debt with devilish terms to fight Apple Music
On-demand streaming music is inevitable, so Spotify is taking whatever fuel it can get to win the race against Apple. Whoever can sign up customers faster to..
Oculus Rift gets bad reviews on launch day
Oculus Rift made its debut on the consumer market on Monday, and with it, a host of terrible reviews.
Hasnain says:
I love it when reporters don't do any research at all
"The skepticism has been routed in the fact that headsets are still very clunky and overpriced. The Rift must be used with a pricey gaming console -- the best of which recommended by the company is called Asus and retails for about $1,500, Fowler says."
Posted on 2016-03-29T16:51:08+0000
Too much of a good thing
Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition
Hasnain says:
"Large firms no longer employ all that many people in America: the domestic employee base of the S&P 500 is only around a tenth of total American employment. New firms would invest more, employ more staff, and force incumbents to invest more in order to compete. If this sounds pie in the sky, consider the shale revolution over the past decade. Although the industry is now suffering from low oil prices, it is a rare example of entrepreneurial spirit taking on a stodgy industry to the benefit of all. A new commitment to competition could be the source of optimism that America is desperately searching for. After all, it is only a healthy dollop of greed and a belief in a better future that prompts people to start from scratch and try to cross the moat that has been dug around corporate America."
Posted on 2016-03-29T16:02:03+0000
Texas woman arrested after responding to police Facebook post about meth tainted with Ebola
Central Texas police put out a fake news story claiming that supplies of methamphetamine and heroin had been tainted by the deadly Ebola virus. Guess what happened next.
Hasnain says:
1) poor woman
2) now if there's an actual legit issue with contaminated drugs, no one will come forward and we'll have unnecessary deaths
In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and train…