React Native

The developers at Facebook have been showing off React Native for a few months, but it’s finally been released on GitHub: facebook/react-native. I went to a Facebook tech talk about React Native earlier this month, and as someone who has experience developing iOS apps, I was extremely excited about it.

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Facebook desenvolve AI para interpretar vídeos e textos

O Facebook já pode saber praticamente tudo sobre os seus utilizadores, mas prepara-se para saber muito mais sobre os vídeos que colocamos e os textos que escrevemos. Graças aos avanços nas áreas da Inteligência Artificial, o Facebook começa a ter capacidade para reconhecer e interpretar tudo o que vir e ler.

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Using Twilio to Advance the State of Wedding Tech

As someone entering that certain age, where a heavy cardstock "save the date" gracing my mailbox is a near weekly occurrence, I've been reflecting on the state of wedding technology. It's pretty rough.

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Controlling a LED with a Raspberry PI 2 using Mono and C#

My fellow MVP Peter Nowak from Germany pointed me to this awesome kit on Amazon.de that has this vast array of sensors in it. It comes with 37 sensors and peripherals that can be controlled with a Raspberry PI2. It’s originally made for the PI B+, but as this is pin compatible with the PI 2 this works fine. It comes with a mini CD with sample code, but unfortunately this is all C - you need to compile it using GCC.

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Google's Data Saver for Chrome Optimizes Web Pages to Use Less Data

Google's new Data Saver extension for Chrome helps you reduce data usage by compressing the pages you visit. It could come in handy if you sometimes go online from your laptop via a mobile hotspot or your smartphone. As soon as you install the extension, it starts working immediately.

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Amazon launches unlimited cloud storage for $60 a year

Amazon has announced a restructuring of its Cloud Drive storage service, with two new plans - both of which offer unlimited storage at a pretty affordable price. The difference between the two plans - aside from cost, of course - is what each one allows you to store in Amazon's cloud.

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DARPA is working on something way better than GPS

When your location marker on Google Maps is pinging all over the place, it's usually due to temperamental GPS signal. DARPA thinks this isn't cutting it anymore, and is developing a "radically" new tech that will offer real-time position tracking -- something that'll work despite blind spots or jamming efforts.

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