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From laptop to desktop, render node to render farm, Greg Corke gives a back to basics guide to buying hardware for rendering The Basics Rendering absolutely hammers the processor so the CPU is arguably the most important component when choosing...

La société Deepmind, rachetée par Google, a développé un système d'intelligence artificielle capable d'apprendre par lui-même, de déterminer l'action la plus judicieuse et de battre l'homme dans une vingtaine de jeux.

Embedding playable DOS games into tweets? Why not?
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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.
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There are over 130 million .com and .net domain names. Is every single English word being used?
Not at all. Checking the domains against a list of over 375,000 words, names and places, it turns out that only around 64% are actually in use.

S'il est bien un sujet délicat à aborder,c'est celui des choix que j'ai pu faire en matière de matériels et de logiciels, à titre personnel.

Using the same ideas that underpin Bitcoin, an Estonian company says it can ensure no one can alter digital files, not even an organization's most senior executives.

A security researcher who was kicked off a United Airlines flight last month after tweeting a reference to its security vulnerabilities had previously taken control of an airplane mid-flight.

Percolation theory looks at problems such as the probability of being able to traverse some region with random obstacles. It is motivated by problems such as modeling the flow of a fluid in a porous medium.

Google Glass exploded into the tech scene in 2012 with the pomp and circumstance of an Apple product unveiling.  It put “wearable technology” into the lexicon of the masses.  Accolades poured in from both the technology world and the fashion...

Google's hack shows a fundamental flaw in basic computer hardware that could be impossible to fully patch in existing vulnerable computers.
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