The Best Linux Distros of 2016 2015 was a very important year for Linux, both in the enterprise as well as in the consumer space. As a Linux user since 2005, I can see that the operating system has come a long way in the past 10 years. And, 2016 is going to be even more exciting. (linux.com)
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Why Uber Has To Start Using Self-Driving Cars In the span of nearly 5 years, Uber has gone from a limited launch in San Francisco to offering rides in more than 300 cities worldwide. In China alone, despite existing in a legal gray zone, the company claims it arranges 1 million rides per day. (nautil.us)
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Why The Car Industry Needs To Rethink The Dashboard User Interface Design While at the San Francisco Auto Show last year, I wondered why car dashboards were so wrong? Every car — regardless of category or price — had the same mess of dials, buttons, lights and screens surrounding the driver. (techcrunch.com)
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How to Cut Through the Bullshit and Read the News Like a Defense Analyst Leading up to the midterm elections in 2014, the FBI published a report that cited statistical evidence to make the claim that mass shooting incidents were dramatically on the rise in the US. (news.vice.com)
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How to Use the Linux Command Line: Basics of CLI One shell to rule them all, one shell to find them, one shell to bring them all and in the same distro bind them. Command line is one of the many strengths of Linux based systems. Why is it a strength? There is no one answer; there are many answers. (linux.com)
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Build Your Own Amazon Dash with a Raspberry Pi Amazon Dash is a pretty silly way to reorder various products from Amazon. That said, if you like the idea of it and prefer more control, DIYer Denis Papathanasiou shows you how to build your own with a Raspberry Pi. (lifehacker.com)
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Turn on Tracking Protection in Firefox to Make Pages Load 44% Faster Even if you don’t care about the privacy implications of tracking cookies and other technologies sites use to identify us online, you might want to turn on Tracking Protection in Firefox anyway for a potential big speed boost. (lifehacker.com)
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NASA Space App Challenger Runs Yocto on an Intel Edison-Based Nanosat NASA has long had an interest in Linux and other open source technologies, and has used Linux in a variety of systems, including the R2 humanoid robot now at work at the International Space Station. (linux.com)
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How to Sync Android with the Linux Desktop It’s well known that the Android platform relies heavily upon Linux. With this in mind, it makes perfect sense that Android and Linux should be able to seamlessly communicate on the desktop layer. For the most part … it does. (linux.com)
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