Why Are Wireless Chargers So Slow?
Over the last 5 years, wireless charging speeds have leaped from around 5 watts to 10 or 15 watts in a handful of phones. That ain’t too...
What Does “NGL” Mean, and How Do You Use It?
Despite NGL’s popularity on Reddit and Twitter, it hasn’t gained the mainstream use of some other abbreviations. NGL stands for “Not Gonna Lie,” and it’s still...
State of Clojure 2020 reveals Clojure usage shifting to enterprise
Clojure, a general-purpose, dynamic language that targets the Java Virtual Machine, is closely related to Lisp. The annual State of Clojure report celebrates its tenth year...
Rightsholders Want Google and Facebook to Scrub Links to Pirate Sites
Australia has often been described as a hotbed for piracy. Some people link this phenomenon to long release delays and high prices. However, former Village Roadshow...
Weekly Review: GraalVM 20.0, OpenJDK, 2020 software engineer trends & more
Top 2020 trends for software engineers: Hired survey insights Using data from over 400,000 interview requests and surveying 1,600 software engineers, Hired released a report detailing...
The Xperia 1 II Brings Over Even More High-End Features From Sony’s Camera Division
Even though MWC 2020 has been canceled, Sony is still forging on. Today the company is introducing a new member to its smartphone family: the Xperia...
Why you should consider WebAssembly in your next frontend project
WebAssembly is a new web standard that enables you to run native code as part of your current JavaScript framework. This talk from the International PHP...
The view of quantum threats – from the front lines
The future is here. Or just about. After a number of discoveries, researchers have proven that quantum computing is possible and on its way. The wider...
Scala 2 community build is now complete
In a blog post, Seth Tisue from the Scala team at Lightbend announced that the Scala 2 community build has reached its goals and is now...
Hashtag Power of #HongKongProtests, Twitter Bots, PsyOps and Media Literacy
Yesterday morning I listened to a fantastic World Affairs (@world_affairs) podcast interview with UC Irvine professor, historian, and author Jeff Wasserstrom (@jwassers) by MaryKay Magistad (@MaryKayMagistad)....
