Weekly Roundup: Friday, 27 October, 2017
Android 8.1 introduces Neural Networks API and Facebook releases video datasets.
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2017
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 20 October, 2017
Serious weakness in the WPA2, Apple’s Face ID and Google’s Advanced Protection.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 13 October, 2017
Tech giants hover up AI start-ups and Google’s browser based AI experiments.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 6 October, 2017
Microsoft, Facebook and Alphabet are infrastructure builders. Facebook and BSD+Patents license.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 29 September, 2017
Apple’s new iOS and macOS, Amazon’s Echos and Facebook’s Workplace.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 22 September, 2017
Azure confidential computing and Facebook and the engineering mindset.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 15 September, 2017
ARCore, Googles answer to Apples ARKit and Facebook accounts for 16% of an average website’s code.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 8 September, 2017
Apple’s Core ML Brings AI to the Masses, Microsoft joins Facebook in sharing AI research.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 4 August, 2017
Open Internet, and Wave Goodbye to Consumer Choice? Flash is dead in 2020 and de-anonymise user data.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 21 July, 2017
AI a marketing gimmick? Apple machine learning journal, Facebook subscriptions and Oracle, ruthless or byzantine?
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 14 July, 2017
Google and Toyota launch new AI focused VC funds and audio streaming hits record high.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 7 July, 2017
All Volvo cars will be hybrid or all electric from 2019, use of medical data and how companies track you on the web.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 30 June, 2017
AI incubators and studios are now a thing, how Facebook got 2bn users and Google and the law.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 23 June, 2017
Media companies vs the platforms. In depth on Microsoft’s attempts to join the big two of AI and Amazon Grocery Services?
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 16 June, 2017
Facebook’s Safety Check the good, the bad and now adding fundraising. Amazon eats Whole Foods and SoftBank eats robots.
Apple WWDC 2017
Apple held their annual developer conference WWDC June 5-9 in San Jose. The most interesting announcements for me were ARKit, Core ML and the HomePod.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 9 June, 2017
Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory on the implications for connected device updates and the British American Security Information Council on Windows XP on nuclear submarines.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 2 June, 2017
Apple, Google and NVIDIA and the race to build AI chips. Google and Facebook gather more data, what do they do with it? better target ads of course.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 26 May, 2017
This week’s roundup of links include a designers guide to AI, efforts by organizations to tackle ‘fake news’ and are Apple moving into the health space?
Google I/O 2017 - AI
Google held their annual developer conference Google I/O from May 17-19.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 19 May, 2017
This weeks roundup of links includes Google introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud, cybersecurity following the WannaCrypt ransomware attack and Apple’s New Campus.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 12 May, 2017
This weeks roundup of links includes how the New York times saved itself, how data is the new oil and Snap’s first results as a public company.
Weekly Roundup: Friday, 5 May, 2017
This weeks roundup of links includes Instacart announce their first public dataset release, Unroll.me selling your data, net nutrality, eBook sales, TV Now, Alphabet results and Microsoft anouncements.
2014
GR8Conf Europe 2014
I attended GR8Conf Europe in Copenhagen back in June, the conference is dedicated to Groovy, Grails and the related technologies. They have published videos of many of the talks over that last month on YouTube. Of the talks I attended th...
Blog Moved to GitHub Pages
Moved this much neglected blog from wordpress.com to GitHub Pages. This is an overview of the steps used to migrate the blog.
2011
The Risk of App Development Platforms
Developing applications on platforms like Facebook and iOS allows third party developers to leverage the existing features of the platform to easily delivery their applications and give users a familiar experience. While these are great ...
Secret History of Silicon Valley
This isn’t new but anyone interested in the evolution of the technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem of silicon valley should check out Steve Blanks secret history talk. It starts with the evolution of radar during world war 2 but it ge...
2010
Reserve RDS Instance Using AWS CLI
If you have recently reserved a AWS EC2 instances you will know that it can be done easily in the AWS Management Console by selection the "Purchase Reserved Instances" option. Then you read that you can now reserve a Amazon Relational Da...
Creating iPhone App Demos
To demo an iPhone App without a phone for a presentation, video demo etc. there are a number of options each with its own advantages and disadvantages. 1. Screen captures Use the built-in screen capture shortcut (hold the "home" button, ...
Startup Weekend Dublin
Ireland’s first startup weekend held at the NDRC in Dublin, May 7th - 9th. Startup weekend is a great concept where you get 50-100 people in a room over a weekend
Skype Access
The new Skype Access service provides a very convenient way to access public WiFi hotspots in hotels, airports and other public locations.
Samsung bada Mobile Platform
Samsung have launched their new mobile platform for apps development called bada. To promote the new platform they are running developer days throughout the world, including one in Dublin yesterday.
VirtualBox
I have been using VirtialBox as an alternative to WMware Workstation for the last few months and it has proved to be a great success. My use of virtual machines is mainly for development and testing purposes so my evaluation is with that...
2009
Business Camp Dublin
A few short notes on some of the talks at Business Camp Dublin held at Trinity College on December 5th.
Vodafone Mobile Broadband Tuning
I have been using the Vodafone Mobile Broadband Stick (Huawei K3765) and noticed differences in performance (high disk and processor use) on my laptop when I was using it compared to being attached to a local network. Turning down the lo...
BarCamp Cork III
Barcamp was at the Cork International Airport Hotel on Saturday. It was a great event with lots of interesting talks and informal discussion.
PINGTEST.NET
Ookla Net Metrics have added a beta qualitative test for Internet connections called PINGTEST.NET to their existing SPEEDTEST.NET service.
Google Apps Email for your Domain
Google Apps has been around for some time but I have only recently used it to set-up email from a domain i.e. user@mydomain.com. It is straight forward to configure and you get allot for free using Standard Edition with up to 50 users wi...
Gmail on Windows Mobile
I have been using a phone running Windows Mobile 6 for some time using a POP email client and Microsoft ActiveSync running on my PC to backup contacts and calendar. While this solution worked it had several limitations:
Welcome
Welcome. This is the first of what I hope will be regular posts.