re:Invent is Almost Upon Us

Be exited! This will change everything.

Got any questions?

Should we be excited?

https://bgr.com/2018/09/05/samsung-foldable-galaxy-phone-release-date-soon-2018-announcement-so-what/

Wow

ICE 7 Arc Star Floating Bluetooth Speaker https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ET1OTV6/

Great Uber News

Uber Is Finally Growing Up http://flip.it/p.Eiqe

GE Focus and the Market

General Electric Co. GE 3.27% is seeking a buyer for key parts of its digital unit as the conglomerate unwinds a signature initiative of former Chief Executive Jeff Immelt that loses money despite billions in investment.

GE Digital, a once highly touted software unit based in San Ramon, Calif., was key to the strategic vision of Mr. Immelt, who left last summer. As part of an effort to reorient itself away from financial and media assets and bolster a sluggish stock price, the company built a software platform called Predix that aimed to help customers like utilities and airlines gather and analyze data to better manage their equipment.

GE Digital was established as a stand-alone unit in 2015 to distinguish it from the company’s industrial divisions. Mr. Immelt put a former Cisco Systems Inc. executive in charge and said his goal was to make GE a top-10 software company by 2020.

It isn’t clear what exactly is for sale and how much a deal could generate.

While the process is at an early stage, possible buyers include software companies and other industrial players seeking to become more digital-focused, one of the people said.

GE’s digital push included ramping up research spending and hiring thousands of programmers to develop software for the massive machinery it sells. In 2016, the company spent more than $4 billion developing tools like analytics and machine-learning software. The effort was also at the heart of the company’s advertising, which touted GE as a driver of a new “digital industrial” age.

Remoting

This is a solid basis for being hopeful for change:

Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks With Ubuntu Linux On The Dell XPS 13 - Forbes

Hi,

I thought you'd like this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/07/19/ditching-windows-2-weeks-with-ubuntu-linux-on-the-dell-xps-13/

Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks With Ubuntu Linux On The Dell XPS 13 - Forbes

Yowzah

https://youtu.be/6yaY4Fw-ovM

Clouds Are No Problem for New Bacteria-Powered Solar Panels

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a22075233/solar-cell-bacteria-cloudy/

Water Weight

One pint of water weighs one pound (1.04316 lbs/pint). One gallon of water weighs 8.3453 pounds. One cubic foot of water contains 7.48052 gallons. The weight of one cubic foot of water is 7.48052 gallons times 8.3453 pounds, which equals62.42718356 pounds of water per cubic foot.

Huawei’s new MateBook X Pro is the best laptop right now

You won't find another laptop with more bang for your buck

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17396818/huawei-matebook-x-pro-laptop-review-specs-price

Article: F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware

F.B.I.'s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware

IBM's processor pushes quantum computing closer to 'supremacy'

IBM's processor pushes quantum computing closer to 'supremacy':

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New microscope captures awesome animated 3D movies of cells at high resolution and speed | Kurzweil

New microscope captures awesome animated 3D movies of cells at high resolution and speed | Kurzweil:

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Wha??! PayPal Balance Surprize

Well it was for me anyway. Check this out from their site: https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/money/balances/summary

PayPal works without a balance
No kidding! You can still use PayPal to shop or send money when your balance is zero.

Goodbye, WordPress. Hello, Duda???

I have used Duda for years to create and manage mobile sites based on their full Website versions. It is a very cool way to create a mobile site. Now Duda is suggesting that this approach is the bomb for full Websites too, not just mobile. Wow.

Goodbye, WordPress. Hello, Duda!:

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Google announces new ‘Talk to Books’ semantic-search feature | Kurzweil

Google announces new ‘Talk to Books’ semantic-search feature | Kurzweil:

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Are you ready for atom-thin, ‘invisible’ displays everywhere? | Kurzweil network

First step toward a really futuristic looking future.

• Invisible, flexible, portable displays 

naming - Why is Inversion of Control named that way? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange

"Fowler, and others, decided that the term Inversion of Control covered too many techniques and we needed a new term for the specific example of instantiation of objects (Dependency Injection) but, by the time that agreement had been made, the phrase "IoC Container" had taken off.
This muddies the water a lot, because an IoC container is a specific kind of Dependency Injection, but Dependency Injection is a specific kind of Inversion of Control. This is why you're getting such confused answers, no matter where you look."
 -https://diigo.com/0brgtt

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Tau Day | No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl

Tau Day | No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl:

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Pi versus Tau

Stop celebrating Pi Day, and embrace Tau as the true circle constant - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie-math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter-radius-holiday-truth instead of pi, we should celebrate tau, an alternative circle constant referred to by the Greek letter τ that equals 2π, or approximately 6.28.

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Stop celebrating Pi Day, and embrace Tau as the true circle constant - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/3/14/17119388/pi-day-pie-math-tau-circle-constant-mathematics-circumference-diameter-radius-holiday-truth

instead of pi, we should celebrate tau, an alternative circle constant referred to by the Greek letter τ that equals 2π, or approximately 6.28.

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Are We Getting Safer?

Auth.net to disable TLS 1.0 & 1.1 "temporarily" "just to help you see" if you may be using it: https://www.authorize.net/blog/

Drupal Modules

Creating Web solutions with Drupal requires an understanding of the place of the module. Modules are the controllers in that they 'know' about the public functions available in a particular class, and define the menu endpoints that are referred to in JavaScript. Modules lie between objects that access data and other elements of the site that rely on the data.

For example, a user clicks a button on a Webpage that invokes a JavaScript function. The JavaScript function invokes a PHP method in a PHP object, which in turn invokes a .Net object to obtain data from a database.

The .Net layer enables objects to be compiled into DLL files for data access. This method is popular due to the performance gains of compiled objects accessing database tables.

Natural health care

_/|\_ namaste

These  are three good herbs to have in your medicine chest