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FizzBuzz Recipe
From The Noisy Channel

FizzBuzz Recipe

For a while I’ve been determined to make a cocktail called a FizzBuzz. Beyond being tasty, it needed to have enough fizz and buzz to merit…Continue reading on Medium...

Bay Area girls stream into summer coding camps
From Phys.org Technology News

Bay Area girls stream into summer coding camps

It already feels like the dead of summer, but the girls over at Adobe's coding camp are making it snow.

Atlantic flights disrupted by Iceland air traffic glitch
From Phys.org Technology News

Atlantic flights disrupted by Iceland air traffic glitch

Iceland's airport authority says the country briefly closed its airspace to flights because of a technical problem at its air traffic control center.

Researchers create new 3-D imagery and documentation of Native American artifacts
From Phys.org Technology News

Researchers create new 3-D imagery and documentation of Native American artifacts

Idaho State University researchers are working with Grand Teton National Park and various tribes to better document about 50 Native American artifacts from the...

Businesses can't afford to ignore the human element of IT, study says
From Phys.org Technology News

Businesses can't afford to ignore the human element of IT, study says

Mood and personality play an important role in how companies should manage their IT systems, according to a new study co-authored by a researcher at Binghamton...

Punch Hard
From The Noisy Channel

Punch Hard

If you’ve read my posts on reducing scope and incremental product development, you may have concluded that I’m conservative about the…Continue reading on Medium...

Flight 370: With search suspended, a cold-case file awaits
From Phys.org Technology News

Flight 370: With search suspended, a cold-case file awaits

For two years and more, it has been a lost ship, a metal container carrying 239 souls that simply disappeared one late Asian night never to be seen again. And now...

Gireesh, thanks for the response.
From The Noisy Channel

Gireesh, thanks for the response.

Given the interest in this post, I’ll try to follow it up with further thoughts about scoping and prioritization.Continue reading on Medium »

Reduce Scope
From The Noisy Channel

Reduce Scope

When I left the cocoon of academia nearly two decades ago to become a software engineer, I quickly learned two lessons.Continue reading on Medium »

MH370 mystery spurred efforts to improve aircraft tracking
From Phys.org Technology News

MH370 mystery spurred efforts to improve aircraft tracking

As investigators prepare to wind down the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search after more than two fruitless years, the airline industry is still working to raise...

Southwest says technology outage fixed but more flights cut
From Phys.org Technology News

Southwest says technology outage fixed but more flights cut

Southwest says it has fixed computer problems that caused hundreds of flights to be canceled, but it is telling passengers to get to the airport early because there...

Oceanographer says Flight 370 could be north of search area
From Phys.org Technology News

Oceanographer says Flight 370 could be north of search area

The oceanographer whose calculations helped an American adventurer find potential debris from Flight 370 said Thursday that the Malaysia Airlines jetliner could...

Southwest suffers technology outage; flights held at gates
From Phys.org Technology News

Southwest suffers technology outage; flights held at gates

Some Southwest Airlines flights are being held up while the airline tries to fix a technology outage.

Facebook films Muncie Animal Shelter's 'Pokemon Go' walks
From Phys.org Technology News

Facebook films Muncie Animal Shelter's 'Pokemon Go' walks

The director of an Indiana animal shelter says Facebook has hired a production company to shoot video about its effort to encourage "Pokemon Go" players to walk...

New training videos leverage ESnet's expertise to improve network performance around the world
From Phys.org Technology News

New training videos leverage ESnet's expertise to improve network performance around the world

The Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon are teaming up to create...

Airport app concept nets UNT students win in first contest
From Phys.org Technology News

Airport app concept nets UNT students win in first contest

Ever been lost in an airport terminal or nearly miss a flight because you were late? An airport app concept created by University of North Texas students may provide...

How Pokemon Go is helping road safety researchers
From Phys.org Technology News

How Pokemon Go is helping road safety researchers

Pokemon Go is giving a glimpse of how gaming can keep drivers safer behind the wheel, according to QUT's Dr Ronald Schroeter.

Utah votes to let authorities disable drones near wildfires
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Utah votes to let authorities disable drones near wildfires

Utah authorities likely will be among the first in the nation to be allowed to disable and crash drones for flying too close to wildfires after lawmakers approved...

Can Mankind Survive Scientific Illiteracy?
From Blog@Ubiquity

Can Mankind Survive Scientific Illiteracy?

Science is not taught as science at all. Students are taught how to do science, but not what science actually is. They suffer from scientific illiteracy. The post...

Does music sound better on vinyl records than on CDs?
From Phys.org Technology News

Does music sound better on vinyl records than on CDs?

Vinyl is back, no doubt about it. Sales of vinyl records have been soaring, although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry's revenues:...
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