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Here at Modular Robotics we’ve been working hard on an exciting new product that enables people to wirelessly control and reprogram their Cubelets. We’re getting ready to release that system to the world, but thought we’d give our friends in Boulder a sneak peek. So! We’re hosting a Hackathon to give you a chance to play with Cubelets and be the first to try out our...

Since Apple came to its present prominence because it changed the world we live in, an analysis based on change is appropriate. Companies such as Apple go through five stages of change. Even if Jobs were alive, more than likely he would not have been able to overcome the obstacles that come along with being in the fourth stage of change.

My investment method is based on profiting...

Various posts by the hAkkers in the Akka Team and the Akka community.

When an Actor stops, its children stop in an undefined order. Child termination is asynchronous and thus non-deterministic. If an Actor has children that have order dependencies, then you might need to ensure a particular shutdown order of those children so that their postStop() methods get called in the right order. This pattern approaches that problem by introducing an Actor type that we...

This document provides a graphical overview over the Scala 2.8 Collections API types most relevant to Scala developers. It is based on the APIs scaladocs and is updated regularly.

Distributed Collections for Scala is a library for large scale data processing that uses different cluster computing frameworks as the back-end. Library inherits Scala 2.9.1 collections generic interface enriched with additional methods like join, reduceByKey etc. Currently the library uses only Hadoop as the back-end processing engine. However, we are aiming to extend the library to work with...

A list of the new features planned for Scala 2.10. Seems to be updated well.

At 56, Ms. Whitman, the eBay billionaire who spent a fortune unsuccessfully trying to become the governor of California, has found her Act III. She has been chief executive of Hewlett-Packard for a little more than a year, and many people are still waiting for her to get her message out about the place.

Here it is: Meg Whitman believes in H.P., and believes that this company matters to...

Lisp - The language from which the gods wrought the universe.

A collection of weather related photos from WGN Chicago.

Follow this year's litter of sled dog pups as they learn and grow in the Denali Kennels. The camera will go off-line in late September, 2012, once the pups are old enough to live in their own individual areas.

When you manage in the big leagues for 33 seasons, you’re going to pick up fans and detractors along the way. Sporting News’ Ken Bradley caught up with four players who were managed by Tony La Russa during his career as a manager, which began in 1979 with the Chicago White Sox. Here’s what some of them had to say about their time on the field—and in the dugout—...

Venture capitalists are still investing in flashy Internet start-ups, but the "Next Big Thing" is more likely to be a maker of humdrum Internet plumbing for businesses. The Wall Street Journal's third annual ranking of the top 50 venture-capital-backed companies shows a crop of contenders that overall are focused less on online consumers than in years past.

Apple’s decision to jettison Google Maps was not an emotional one. Indeed, the decision was done to make sure they owned their customers data and did not give Google any help with Android. And as iOS users give Apple feedback on map data and accuracy, a very rich mapping database will emerge that could be even better than what Google offers today.

Ask any ex-Yahoo employee what's wrong with the company and one of the first three things they'll tell you is that the place is too slow.

Too slow to figure out what to do. Too slow to do it.

After two months on the job, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is aware of the problem.

On Tuesday, she gathered all Yahoo employees for an all-hands meeting to announce her turnaround plan for...

Raising a crushing $80 million in SF Beta’s investment simulation game, revolutionary data startup PreCog swept to victory at SF Beta :: DataWeek Edition on Sept. 25, 2012.

Boulder, CO-based Precog is a cloud-based data warehousing and analysis platform. Precog’s infrastructure APIs allow companies to capture, store, and deeply analyze event-oriented data, without having...

Wells Fargo (WFC) is one of the most attractive options in the financial industry. Current shareholders should hold long-term, and interested investors may look toward the third quarter's end as an opportune time to buy. The combination of additional quantitative easing and management's projection for a 17 basis point reduction in net interest margin may bring Wells Fargo's stock down slightly...

Barnes and Noble announced Wednesday that it has two new Nook Tablets, specifically designed for better video viewing. The announcement comes just a day after the bookseller unveiled its plans for a video service of its own.

The new tablets are called the Nook Tablet HD and Nook Tablet HD+, 7- and 9-inch devices that show Barnes and Noble is jumping into the tablet market with both feet...