Experience a new level of precise control for your favorite games. The Steam Controller lets you play your entire collection of Steam games on your TV—even the ones designed without controller support in mind. A limited quantity of orders will be shipped October 16th, weeks in advance of our official launch. Pre-order now and be among Steam Hardware’s first wave of … [Read more...]
Google’s Project Jacquard and Project Soli
Announced at Google I/O 2015, Project Jacquard and Project Soli are innovative and unique experiments with technology. Project Jacquard is a new system for weaving technology into fabric, transforming everyday objects, like clothes, into interactive surfaces. Project Jacquard will allow designers and developers to build connected, touch-sensitive textiles into their own … [Read more...]
Cybersecurity front-and-center of USA pilot Mr. Robot
MR. ROBOT is a psychological thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, “24”), a young programmer, who works as a cyber security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, “The Adderall Diaries”) of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the corporation he is paid to protect. … [Read more...]
YouTube celebrates 10th birthday with A-Z
YouTube celebrates 10 years of service this month since launching in May 2005. They made a video and image to go through the entire English alphabet to recap many of the things that have made YouTube great and the time just fly by. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoKkq685Hk From the YouTube blog, this picture was posted as well as a link to a YouTube trivia game: … [Read more...]
Dealing with sysadmin anxiety
From DevOpsDays NYC, an interesting presentation was given on anxiety working in IT operations. Given the stress of the job, the goal of the talk was to explain anxiety, identify sources of stress such as ongoing education and being oncall, and ways to minimize anxiety including blameless postmortems, checklists, on-call partners, and more. The last section of the talk gets … [Read more...]