The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an offline implementation of Scratch 3.0 than runs under Raspbian Buster and performs best on the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4. 

Perhaps the "for $10" part is hype as that is just the cost of the webcam used in the tracking system, but it is low cost. Using acoustic meta-materials a team has managed to focus a beam of sound that can be delivered to a single person.

The idea of analysis by synthesis has been around for a long time, but it is only now being applied to computer vision. Could this be the missing component that makes AI able to see like we do?

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There's a problem for applications based on Visual Basic for all Windows machines that have installed the cumulative updates for August. The issue, raised by Microsoft, says that apps may stop responding if they use VB6, VBA, or VB Scripting Edition.

Yes, Apache is worth $20 billion by its own valuation of the software it offers for free. But what price can you realistically put on open source code?

PyTorch 1.2 has been released with a new TorchScript API offering fuller coverage of Python. The new release also has expanded ONNX export support and a standard nn.Transformer module.

Newly launched Extension Monitor has explored the metrics of the Chrome Web Store and came up with some staggering statistics.

Apple is increasing its support for security researchers with special iPhones offering deeper access, and an increase in the upper limit paid to bug finders.

of extinction. VBScript is one of the variations Microsoft created of the original VB. Now it has decided to drop default support in Internet Explorer. Clearly VBScript is on its way out.

The developers of DeepCode, a code review tool that uses AI techniques, have announced extra funding and a free tier for small teams and educational use. 

The focus of the 2019 GitLab Developer Survey was DevOps. It attracted responses from over 4,000 software professionals across various industries, roles, and geographic locations and here are some of its findings.

There's a new release of React with improvements including an asynchronous testing utility, a programmatic profiler, and an updated roadmap.

The University of London now offers a fully online Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science on the Coursera Platform.The applications deadline for the October 2019 intake is September 2nd. Enrollment is also open for several online Master's Degrees.

The latest update of  V8, Google's JavaScript engine, has been released in beta prior to its final release in coordination with Chrome 76 Stable in several weeks. This version, 7.6, speeds up JSON parsing and adds support for native stack walking.

A bike that follows you around? Sounds good and it's not just self-driving it is also self-balancing. Can spiking neuromorphic networks be the future? Researchers in China seem to think so.

Taking high frame rate video is both fun and often useful, but a video camera that can do the job is very expensive. A small project involving a Raspberry Pi and its $6 camera has produced reasonably good quality video at 660fps. Take a look.

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