Web3 is the next iteration of the web which consists of decentralized networks built on blockchains. Developers need to become familiar with the tools used to build it.

Gentle introduction to the machine learning models that power ChatGPT. Starting with the Large Language Models and dive into the revolutionary self-attention mechanism that enabled GPT-3 to be trained.

The era of utilizing digital technology to its most beneficial potential is close. Blockchain, IoT, Metaverse, Metahuman as well as Machine Learning will make it possible.

Use cases for blockchain are not restricted to NFTs and coins. There is much to be developed on the customer experience and marketing campaigns.

Creating a Solidity Project with VSCode, Hardhat, Waffle, and ethers.js

Most new Web3 developers have trouble understanding: when you ship code, it can’t be patched and updated later. This is a big departure from the iterative development method that we all know and love...

Last year, I started researching technology advances around carbon-neutral housing. When looking at the Japanese construction standards in Hokkaido, I find it disappointing. I continue my research into building a green-home.

John Croft built an amazing 17,000 sq-ft (1579 sq-m) dream home that is completely powered by solar and geothermal energy.

I consider how to use geothermal technology to power the electricity in my home. The long-term implications are astounding. However, the main reason we don't see this proliferate the globe is ignorance & upfront costs.

MIT created a new kind of thin-film speaker that’s as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper, but is also able to generate clear, high-quality sound, even when bonded to a rigid surface like a wall.

Use AWS SAM with Parameter Store to build multiple environments across multiple AWS accounts securely.

A sucker is born every second. Do your research before blindly opening your wallet to anyone & anywhere online.

Brief overview of the different layers of the Blockchain.

Solar panels for home has been a disruptive technology, but what if we could scale down wind turbines and install them on our home? In theory, it sounds like a good idea to diversify our home power generation...

Create a smart contract that will allow users to enter text at the time of mint, generate SVG data that includes our user input, encode this into Base64, and add this into our metadata that is also base64 encoded.

Learn how to use smart contracts in your frontend code since they are required to get ERC20 token balances.

Take any online community — a forum, an MMORPG, or your friend group chat. Make sure that no one person can tamper with the rules without community agreement. And you have a DAO.

At least that’s what the critics keep yelling at me. “*Ethereum is like a big, juicy bowl of pasta. It’s pure spaghetti code*,” they say.

Some new experiences using headsets and mixed reality will be in your face – quite literally – but other implications will be harder to spot. As with all new categories, we’ll see intended and unintended innovations and ⋯

This article proposes 2 methods to avoid incurring the expense of using a NAT Gateway for projects that are in their infancy, where the goal is a low cost method to demonstrate an idea and gain quick feedback.

Penguin Karts is an immersive 3D battle-racing game built on the blockchain. Essentially, it takes the arcade-style kart racing you know and love and seamlessly introduces NFT dynamics alongside a Play-to-Earn system.

The questions you must ask your customers before migrating their on-premise workload to AWS Cloud.

A story of being foiled by AWS Fargate in production and how we recovered.

This article highlights the steps we took to reduce the size of our NodeJs apps running on AWS Lambda but it still relates to any Node app running anywhere.

Evolution of Melio’s Payments Platform system built on AWS serverless architecture — why we chose this technology, the ups and downs we encountered, how it enables us to make gradual changes and our next steps.

As I desire a home located in the snow country, I will need a way to keep the ground free of snow. As I age, I concede that I may not always be physically capable of shoveling the snow. And, my wife could easily manage the snow ⋯

Home automation for Apple fanboy 🔗 I’ve had it in mind to build a home automation system that includes cameras and smart switches. But support for devices in HomeKit has been very limited. While that still seems the case, ⋯

The Apple ][ holds a special place in people's hearts, and now you can relive the glory years with only an Arduino Uno and a whole lot of effort.

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Richie BartlettIf only this were true… Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality startup with $542 million in funding by Google, just released a video that gives a glimpse into what its technology can do. Titled “Just ⋯

Richie BartlettOne step closer to “Ghost in the Shell” type of world. Chips under the skin: Biohacking, the connected body is ‘here to stay’ Would you be comfortable with a chip in your hand replacing your smartphone and credit ⋯

Richie BartlettThey say, “Yes, we need you, but we can’t give you any money.'” The Network Time Protocol provides a foundation to modern computing. So why does NTP’s support hinge so much on the shaky finances of one ⋯

Richie BartlettTruth be told, AntiVirus software is a special breed of virus… LOL! Panda antivirus mistakenly flags itself as malware, bricks PCs Users were warned not to restart their PCs, in case they wouldn’t boot up ⋯

Richie BartlettGoogle code is still around? Google Code was supposed to spread the open source religion. But then GitHub came along. And GitHub, it turns out, was a much better preacher. Chris DiBona was worried everything ⋯

Richie BartlettYou’ve been PWNED!!! ⚠️ Ugh — another week, another nasty widespread security bug to worry about. The twist this time: this one has apparently been around since the 90s. Dubbed “FREAK” by the researchers who ⋯

Honey on Tap: A New Beehive that Automatically Extracts Honey without Disturbing Bees 🎥 New Invention - Flow: Honey on Tap Directly From your Beehive [2015] | Video (1:40)It’s the beekeepers dream, turn a tap right on ⋯

Richie BartlettLight-speed ahead HAL9000! Germany to digitize autobahn, ready for self-driving car tests The German Ministry of Transport is paving the way for autonomous cars to hit one freeway with both dedicated and mixed ⋯

When developers bank their product’s success solely on another platform, I get nervous for them. Many in the tech industry might recall Facebook’s Platform in 2007, which many - both young hopefuls and established creators ⋯

The amount of sunlight that hits the Earth every 40 minutes is enough to meet global energy demands for an entire year. The trick, of course, is harnessing it and converting it into useful electricity. A new study has revealed ⋯

Richie BartlettI love LEGO! This 13-Year-Old Is So Impressive, Intel Is Investing Hundreds Of Thousands In His Startup Shubham Banerjee, the 13-year old CEO of the Braille printer-maker Braigo Labs, had no idea what Braille ⋯

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & ScienceJanuary 16, 2015Paralyzed patients have been given new hope of recovery after rats with severe spinal injuries walked again through a ‘groundbreaking’ new cyborg-style ⋯

This is a short 40 page analog, but really classic writing on Open Source Software philosophies. Eric also explores “Management and the Maginot Line” - a few points on why a manager based approach will not outperform a ⋯

How One Man Hacked His Way Out Of Homelessness A DIY workshop helped Marc Roth find a job. Now he’s helping others overcome poverty. In November 2011, Marc Roth spent the last of his savings on new work clothes. Two months ⋯

Richie BartlettI could have sworn that was spelled, “Server room” Generic offerings, specialized needs, and a desire to own one’s destiny are shifting IT away from third-party private clouds. The consultancy Technology Business ⋯

Richie BartlettSo… When do I get my 25TB flash/Thumb drive? Saving files to memory is something that’s supposed to be mostly invisible for the end user. We don’t need to think about it; it just has to work. But whether it’s a ⋯

Richie BartlettSoon, we will have the ability to control convicts in real-life war-games… (see 2009 movie: “Gamer”) Abstract 🔗 Human sensory and motor systems provide the natural means for the exchange of information between ⋯

Richie BartlettCool feature!Now to get an iPhone-enabled hearing aid for my right ear. Apple supports the FCC’s hearing-aid compatibility standard to current iPhone models. This summer, developers have released apps supporting ⋯

Richie BartlettOne step closer to SKYNET>>> The potential: A computer that can not only see and hear, but understand what’s going on around it. Can a silicon chip act like a human brain? Researchers at IBM say they’ve ⋯

Richie BartlettEver since M$ “released” Office for iPad, I’ve never been able to download it…Seen sites with reviews and screenshots, but despite the links to AppStore… Can’t seem to get a working download link.Now, using the ⋯

Julian Melchiorri, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, claims to have developed a silk leaf that could create oxygen for space travel as well as make the air nicer here on Earth. The leaf was developed in conjunction with ⋯

Richie BartlettInteresting concept to decentralize the “internet.” Intro to MaidSafe 🔗 Based in Ayr, Scotland, MaidSafe have drawn talents from many cultures and countries, reflecting the users that we serve. Despite this ⋯

Richie BartlettBuild it faster & more secure! Researchers at Aalborg University, MIT and Caltech have developed a new mathematically-based technique that can boost internet data speeds by up to 10 times, by making the ⋯

Richie BartlettCheck out the NODE Pole… Where FB has it’s newest DataCenter. Ever since we humans gave up the nomadic life and started building homes, architecture had one goal: To make life better for humans. But now, a new ⋯

Richie BartlettThey may not be a T-800, but these little bots have learned “self preservation!” Next, we may find ourselves competing with not other Humans, but the offspring of these bastards. With the development of killer ⋯

Richie BartlettCan’t wait to get a fully functional tricorder like Mr. Spock’s! Consumer Physics, an Israeli start-up is bringing Star Trek “Tricorder” technology to your mobile devices to open up an entirely new world of ⋯

A pen that combines an RGB sensor and a five-color ink cartridge allows artists to match any pigment they can see. The pen is known as Scribble, and it’s not yet available for sale. However, if you can’t wait to get your hands ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Won’t be too long before I can get a brain upgrade too! ;) Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain Stanford bioengineers have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Cool 3D mimic’ing on a 2D plane by tracking user position to screen.Still waiting for my Holodeck to arrive… Microsoft Research reveals Holograph, brings ‘Star Wars’ Leia hologram to life All those cool 3D ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Who needs plastic made from oil products when you have tons of carbon to make something far better?! I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. No, fans of “The Graduate,” the word isn’t ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Encryption based on biology!ery cool. SD Times Blog: New ‘nearly unbreakable’ encryption scheme is inspired by human biology Researchers at Lancaster University in the U.K. have hit on a radically new way to ⋯

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Richie Bartlett Jr.Looks like the bitcoin cookie-jar has been cracked open! Bitcoin Just Completely Crashed As Major Exchange Says Withdrawals Remain Halted Bitcoin just completely fell out of bed. The chart above, via ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.DARPA = Open source? DARPA publishes all its open source code in one place The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsors a lot of technology through grants to universities and private ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.cool Get ready for multicolor fonts – maybe in motion, too Impelled by a need to support emoji characters, Mozilla, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google are working to standardize technology for showing fonts that ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Now I can virtually play Lego everywhere! Google now lets you play with Lego in your browser anywhere in the world In 2012 Google unveiled an experiment called Build with Chrome, a virtual Lego tool that let ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Play the GOV’s games for free (labor)… DARPA is crowd-sourcing its software testing with a series of online games aimed at seeking out bugs and vulnerabilities. The Last Starfighter it ain’t, but if you ever ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.IT dumbass throws away $7,500,000 worth of bitcoins in old hard disk without backup!! As Bitcoin hit $1,000 dollars on Wednesday morning, a lot of early adopters saw their Bitcoin, bought or mined for cheap ⋯

In response to: http://www.chevrolet.com/volt-electric-car/specs/trims.html Mom, here’s a hybrid car that you can get for about $15,000 after government and GM coupons applied! Think of the gas you can save in a hybrid.

I have World Unlimited, US Unlimited premium plans… AND I have Skype Credit… WTF!!! Why can I not make a simple call skype-to-skype call!!! Why does SKYPE insist I buy more subscriptions when I have multiple premium ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Brilliantly EVIL ! Russia: Hidden chips ‘launch spam attacks from irons’ Cyber criminals are planting chips in electric irons and kettles to launch spam attacks, reports in Russia suggest. 🔗 State-owned ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.A “Smashing” street view through the Hadron collider! Explore the tunnels and control rooms of the world’s biggest particle collider from the comfort of your own home using Google Street View. Perhaps Google ⋯

MIT and Harvard Just Made a Real Lightsaber. So That’s Done. Cross another dream off the bucket list, because the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms just created a new form of matter that could potentially be used to create ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Down with the Draconian rules!!! The unpopular requirement that passengers shut electronics down during take-off and landing will soon be lifted, as long as communications capabilities are disabled. An ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Finger print security?What security???! Video (61 seconds) 🔗 iPhone 5s TouchID fingerprint hack .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; ⋯

With a new open source software project called Docker, Solomon Hykes wants to build a computer the size of the internet. GOOGLE RUNS ITS web empire on computers the size of warehouses. Inside the massive data centers that ⋯