Two Minute Papers checks out the paper “Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation.”
Two Minute Papers checks out the paper “Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation.”
A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system that runs multi-threaded applications and can meet real-time deadlines.
Digi-Key explains.
In case you’re wondering why you would want to “de-Google” your phone, then watch this Al Jazeera documentary.
In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used.
Pegasus is manufactured by an Israeli technology company called the NSO Group and is among the most advanced spyware in the world. It can access and infiltrate a smartphone without the owner clicking a link, opening an email or even answering their phone – meaning it can go undetected.
This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware and how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” – including to target journalists.
The Linux Experiment has been trying to degoogle his life as much as possible lately, but there are 2 main holdouts: YouTube, and Android.
In this video, he takes a look at the /e/ project.
Learn how to use Power Apps Patch to update or insert into a SQL Server table or in this case, a SharePoint list. Brian also covers how to update into special data types like Choice and People Pickers.
Advancing Analytics takes a look at the recently released Azure Purview.
One of the major selling points of modern data catalogues is the ability to track data lineage – this is vital for both evaluating how trustworthy data is based on it’s source, but also performing impact analysis when working out what is consuming data downstream.
In this video, Simon takes a first look at the lineage detection inside the Azure Purview preview, associating a Data Factory asset and looking at what gets automatically tracked against some existing assets
For more info on Azure Purview’s Lineage features – see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/concept-data-lineage
ColdFusion explores the recent controversial changes to the WhatsApp terms and conditions.
In today’s video, NeuralNine going to build an intelligent AI chatbot using neural networks and natural language processing in Python.
In this video Hussein Nasser goes through the new features in Apache Kafka 2.7, and examines the amount of work Apache Kafka is doing to get closer to removing ZooKeeper
CES is virtual this year and here’s one innovation by TRC Robotics that will kill viruses by leveraging UV-C light.