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The Internet in real time
I came across this statistics site earlier today and was blown away. It is just incredible how much data is being used and made every second. In the time it took to create this post (all 7 minutes), the following happened:
Heartbleed
Heartbleed Following the Heartbleed security bug in the OpenSSL Cryptography library, a fixed version of OpenSSL was released on the 7 April 2014. What is OpenSSL? Open SSL is an open version of the SSL and TLS protocol that was founded in 1998 to provide a free set of encryption tools code on the internet. It is believed to be …
3D printing at CES 2014
3D printing has now got its entire own section at CES 2014 and from a quick walk through you can see why. There were numerous manufacturers but the two that stood out most were “The Sugar Lab” who are 3D printing food from sugar and MakerBot who seem to be completely owning the market at the moment.
Edible printed 3D candy CES 2014
3D printing is all the rage at CES 2014. If you are at the event and do not go look at the 3D section you are missing out, literately missing out. They have “The Sugar Lab” there who are printing candy with 3D printers. The little shapes in the bowl you see below are bits of sugar that has been …
808 portable sound CES 2014
The news seems to have hooked on that CES 2014 is about wearable tech. Whilst there is a fair amount of wearable tech it is nothing compared to the vast amounts of exhibitors showing off their latest portable sound devices. I gave up counting these exhibitors at 34, all plugging their latest sound boxes. However, 808 Audio were a little bit …
LG Curved CES 2014
The very first stand I came across this year was LG. This was surprising as last year in the main hall Samsung dominated everything (except Sony’s wrap around screen that was impressive.) LG had a very impressive passive 3D display which was just incredible to watch, unfortunately the images and video don’t translate very well. There was nothing dramatically new …
Qualcomm Formula E Launch for CES 2014
Today Qualcomm launched the Formula E car in the US. The car has made several appearances but this was its first public demonstration. Formula 1 driver Lucas di Grassi drove the 150mph capable Spark-Renault SRT_01E giving the crowd a rather quick demonstration in the Mandalay Bay parking lot. What a great way to start CES 2014, watching a giant radio …
Install motion on a Raspberry Pi
I have spent many days now looking at litterelly hundreds of ways to install Motion on a Raspberry Pi . There are many pretty simple solutions if you are using a powered USB Hub and standard Webcam. However, if you are using a Raspberry Pi Cam or the new NOIR Cam them you’re out of luck. Luckily there is a …
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Officially part of the UK CES 2014 Delegation CES 2014
CES 2014 It’s Confirmed! I have just received my confirmation that I will be part of the official UK Delegation to CES 2014. For the CES 2013 event there just didn’t seem to be enough time in the day to get everything done so for 2014 there is going to have to be a lot more planning. If you don’t …