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As more cities want more footage, companies like Taser are all too happy to oblige. 
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Andy Wilkinson talks about what should be included in your RESTful API's documentation and what should be omitted. Using real-word examples, both good and bad, he discusses how the documentation should be structured so that it's informative, succinct, and easy to read. He also discusses some of the tools that are available for documenting services built using Spring.
Farid Mheir's insight:
If you are in the business of exposing APIs via RESTFul web services, listen to this before you document your API.
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a call to action for CIOs: They have to rethink their integration strategy if the are to succeed with their digital transformation strategy. A move toward do-it-yourself, self-service pervasive integration carried out by specialists and nonspecialists - including LoB developers, SaaS administrators, data analysts and business users - is imperative to support strategies such as digital business, bimodal IT, post-modern ERP and analytics. The research also features two notable case studies from Eni and Adobe.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Also get the Gartner report on mulesoft research page: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-2K50B88&ct=150729&st=sb
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Yahoo may be about to die but its engineering blog remain one of the best. Read it.
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Amazon continues to expand its worldwide network of data centers, with Montreal, the UK, China, and India all slated to become part of its chain.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Great news for Montreal and Canada as Amazon announced plans to open a new data center in Montreal. Montreal is recognized for its cheap and very green hydro electric power. Montreal also has amazing fiber network connectivity with other North American and European regions. Also, Canada may provide better data protection and privacy laws than the US - although this may be debatable. This is great news for Montreal and for Canadian businesses looking to move to the cloud!
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The Intercept has written that if you have bought a Windows PC recently then Microsoft probably has your encryption key. This is a reference to Windows' device encryption feature. We wrote about this feature when it was new, back when Microsoft introduced it in Windows 8.1 in 2013 (and before that, in Windows RT).
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Microsoft windows 10 stores disk encryption keys in its cloud oneDrive for backup purposes. This article explains why this may represent a privacy concern and what you can do to retrieve the key and store it somewhere else. In the context of the needs to encrypt data to protect our information this is an essential knowledge for Windows 10 owners.
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The new model has a larger Glass prism and can fold up!
Farid Mheir's insight:
Pictures have started to emerge but what I find most interesting when reading the patent application is that Google proposes to use magnetic material to change the shape of the device using a new kind of material to better fit the user head shape. Very interesting and promising. Also read the FCC patent application: http://pimg-fpiw.uspto.gov/fdd/67/950/091/0.pdf
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Posts source to his Facebook page, asks for bug reports.
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Very impressive coming from a political figure.
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It's the project management system you need to visualize your work. Here are 8 of the best ways you can implement kanban into your team, along with 8 great apps to pick from.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great review of the Kanban system and the tools that you can use to manage projects using kanban. I use trello all the time and it is great.
Jennifer Kading's curator insight,
January 8, 2016 2:34 PM
this truly sounds like the app that has been missing from my tool kit all along - somehow my work flow never seemed to fit into any of the others quite the way I needed it to. I found myself adjusting my work styles to fit the application...that never works! Must take a closer look at this.
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from Microsoft, a webinar on experience to move to devops.
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Rooms and rooms of cables, switches, and freezing cold air. It’s difficult to define “the cloud.” Even more difficult, perhaps, is photographing it. But that’s precisely what Peter Garritano set out to do with his photo essay The Internet. Taken over the course of the past year, Garritano visited five of New York City’s most interconnected spaces, colloquially called “carrier hotels.” Inside these buildings, like 60 Hudson and 111 8th Avenue, hundreds of fiber-optic cables, fans, servers, and machinery connect to form the Internet.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Actually 15 pictures of a typical colocation data center in downtown manhattan.
Elías Manuel Sánchez Castañeda's curator insight,
January 6, 2016 10:05 PM
“‘The cloud’ is in fact a very physical space, expanding and evolving; full of real machines and real people,”EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN 
Karlo Pommier-Granillo's curator insight,
January 7, 2016 10:48 AM
Un vistazo al "interior" de la nube #thecloud 
Bettina Thompson's curator insight,
January 8, 2016 3:18 PM
Holy Cow! The internet of things is a complex system of spaghetti! It truly is humbling and eye opening to see the inner workings of the thing we are all so addicted to and dependent on! And I thought the wires behind my desk were a melange of wires, wait til you get a look at these babies! "Oh what a tangled web we weave...", if 'Will' only knew what that could imply in 2016. Enjoy!
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Isobar is a global full service digital marketing agency driven by the purpose to deliver borderless ideas enabled through technology, to transform businesses and brands. With 4000 people in 70+ offices across 43 markets worldwide, Isobar has built a borderless agency able to tackle global assignments with local depth.
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A review of top companies to hire to help you implement your digital transformation. Also read the Forrester blog post about it: http://blogs.forrester.com/sarah_sikowitz/15-11-05-introducing_the_forrester_wave_digital_experience_service_providers
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“We are predicting that by 2020, it will cost .50 cents to internet enable a product,” Mr. LeHong said. This enables functionality such as a dryer alerting a homeowner that the laundry is done. Amazon has already created touch buttons for reordering products (Amazon Dash) and Mr. LeHong noted that some retailers believe that the connected home will be the next retail store.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Short on details, I still find the Gartner website full of useful insights and things to ponder.
Craig Broadbent's curator insight,
January 3, 2016 5:15 PM
Exciting time to be in 3D printing and IT!
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We present a method to continuously blend between multiple facial performances of an actor, which can contain different facial expressions or emotional states. As an example, given sad and angry video takes of a scene, our method empowers a movie director to specify arbitrary weighted combinations and smooth transitions between the two takes in post-production. Our contributions include (1) a robust nonlinear audio-visual synchronization technique that exploits complementary properties of audio and visual cues to automatically determine robust, dense spatio-temporal correspondences between takes, and (2) a seamless facial blending approach that provides the director full control to interpolate timing, facial expression, and local appearance, in order to generate novel performances after filming. In contrast to most previous works, our approach operates entirely in image space, avoiding the need of 3D facial reconstruction. We demonstrate that our method can synthesize visually believable performances with applications in emotion transition, performance correction, and timing control.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Not my field of work but a great example of the power of digital technology in image processing. Here, seamless combination of two video streams: look at the video it is truly impressive and you don't need technical expertise to appreciate the work they've done. And you have to question every movie you see from this point forward!
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We mapped the 9 categories driving the future of the Internet of Things. IoT startups are targeting the Industrial Internet of Things and major spaces like healthcare.
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Interested in internet of things: here's a review of 100 companies laying this field. My prediction: 700 by year end 2016 and 3000 by year end 2017. This field is going to explode.
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The demand to be at every touchpoint in the customer lifecycle is no longer an option - it’s a requirement. To manage, deliver, and optimize experiences consistently across all touchpoints, organizations are looking to digital experience platforms as the foundation of their digital presence.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Recent forrester wave reviews the digital platforms available. Many options available but no leader means there is room for consolidation and growth in the future. If you have to pick a solution, do it with your current needs in mind first, as you may need to change in the 3 to 5 years to come when a true leader emerges from the pack.
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And in certain situations, Google says, this quantum annealing can outperform simulated annealing that runs on a single-core classical processor, running calculations about 100 000 000 times faster.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Quantum computing remains a very elusive topic as researchers have a hard time proving that their machines are actually leveraging quantum mechanics to solve problems. But if they do there are great opportunities ahead.
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Digital Attack Map - DDoS attacks around the globe
Farid Mheir's insight:
Very informative insights by Google Idea and great questions raised by Luigi.
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Canadians have always been early adopters of new technologies. Canadians have been at the forefront of development and use of communications technologies. This trend continued in 2013 with Canadians’ use of the Internet and adoption of new technologies like smartphones.
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Full of data about Internet penetration and usage in Canada. Of particular interest in the usage of netflix, above or near 20% everywhere but in QC...
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You must have heard of "51 percent attack", "double spend" and other frightening phrases that disturb cryptocurrency-related communities. Although such caution is not unf
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I have heard of denial of service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, or SQL injections, I had never heard of attacks that were specific to digital currencies such as bitcoins. Well, here we are. See OWASP for a list of attacks you should be aware of in this day and age.
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With Blackhat USA behind us and Defcon in its full throes, there seems to be a trend away from purely digital hacks and toward physical devices. In that spirit, here are nineteen amazing hacks that cross the physical divide.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A review of 19 security hacks on physical devices Compromise Cars, Pacemakers, Mobile Phones, and ATMs. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT As more devices become digital, more hacks become possible. Get used to it!
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The three initiatives, led by the National Farmers' Federation (NFF), will see the establishment of an online platform to be used by farmers; the formation of an agricultural startup incubator named Sprout; and the founding of the Digital Agriculture Service (DAS). Via TechinBiz
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A paper on Australian initiatives to provide farmers and other agriculture workers with telecommunications and other digital tools to support their transformation.
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A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that captures human learning abilities, enabling computers to recognize and draw simple visual concepts that are mostly indistinguishable from those created by humans. Via Wildcat2030
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Review of work done to make computers learn like humans, the experiment shows that new algorithms can learn from very large sets of images - 60 000 examples to learn how to draw digits 0 to 9.
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Netflix is the biggest bandwidth hog, making up more than 37% of all downstream traffic during peak hours. Google's YouTube is a distant second, with about...
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Video now accounts for more than half of Internet traffic. This is inline with other bandwidth information I have seen. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Internet used to be about browsing websites and chatting with friends on Facebook. Today it is all about viewing video which means telcos should really be scarred about cord cutters - people moving away from cable or satellite TV. In the future, I assume the proportion of bandwidth will continue to increase. With billions of internet-connected devices showing up in the next 10 years, will IoT become the bandwidth hog then?
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The price is the big news here because it shows just how cheap computing power has become. This is just an announcement summary. More details here: http://bit.ly/1QLypP8 WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT There will be a computer in everything very soon. Chairs, tables, food packages, name it, there will be a computer in there. Because it costs nothing - or close to it. This is what we call Internet of Things, and why everyone is saying it will be HUGE. Believe it.
Carlos Diego's curator insight,
December 2, 2015 12:55 PM
O RaspberryZero mal foi entregue pela revista MagPi e zerou nas lojas online. Bom, útil e barato vamos esperar a próxima remessa! 
Philippe Guillaume's curator insight,
December 3, 2015 7:15 AM
Si petit et si peu cher qu'il a été donné en goodies, vendu avec le magazine Magpi... Extra pour créer des objets connectés de plus en plus puissants... |
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