Get an Android Development Education With This Nanodegree From Google

Getting into Android development can be rewarding, but there’s also a lot you need to learn. If you have some experience with code but want to transition to becoming a developer, Udacity has a year-long curriculum of material straight from Google that can get you started.

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Qualcomm And Google Hit Augmented Reality Dance Floor With Project Tango Smartphone

At Google's I/O conference, held late this week, Qualcomm announced that the next-generation Project Tango platform is going to sport its upcoming Snapdragon 810 processor. The 810 is set to be sampled in Q3, and will pack in the very capable Adreno 430 GPU.

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Open-Source Cyborg Hand is Making Prosthetics More Accessible Than Ever

A generation ago, getting a prosthetic limb fitted usually amounted to a having a heavy, nearly useless hunk of plastic and metal tacked onto your body. But bionic hands such as this one illustrate just how quickly that’s all changing.

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60M-year-old fossil can’t convince creationist that Earth is older than 6,000 years

A Canadian who happens to be on the board of directors of Big Valley’s Creation Science Museum, a place that’ll try to prove to you that Earth is only about 6,000 years old, made a stunning fossil discovery, but the historic finding can’t actually shake his beliefs.

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The BDLPSWDKS Effect

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Project Brillo is Google's platform for the 'internet of things'

Google wants to be everywhere in your home, not just hiding inside your thermostats and smoke alarms. That's why, as rumored, it's just announced Project Brillo, a super-slim operating system that's designed specifically for devices collectively known as the internet-of-things.

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Home and small office routers are being hijacked for DDoS attacks

The router security message really should have been driven home years ago, but it seems that a lack of basic security practices by ISPs, vendors and users has resulted in large numbers of hacker-controlled routers being used to launch DDoS attacks.

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House Republicans hold hearing on politics in science, don't invite any scientists

The sole witness called by the committee's Democrats was a science historian who studies the way that corporate lobbyists distort science policy. The GOP called no scientists. Oreskes didn’t directly wade into any of those issues. Instead, she took a different tack.

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A quantum leap into the future of computing

Year after year computers increase in power. Processors become faster and gain more cores, memory also speeds up and becomes more plentiful. But we're reaching the limits of what can be achieved with current technology -- a real sea change is needed to take things to the next level.

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Watch An Emormous 'Plasma Snake' Erupt From The Sun

Over the course of April 28–29, a gigantic filament, briefly suspended above the surface* of the sun, broke off and created an enormous snakelike eruption of plasma that extended millions of miles out into space.

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Microsoft reveals Code editor for Windows, Mac, Linux

As you’d expect with this kind of tool, there’s syntax highlighting, autocompletion, bracket matching and similar support for a lot of languages: C++, jade, PHP, Python, XML, Batch, F#, DockerFile, Coffee Script, Java, HandleBars, R, Objective-C, PowerShell, Luna, Visual Basic, Markdown, JavaSc

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Degree-Off

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