SPI is a very popular way of connecting devices to the Raspberry Pi and the good news is that it is well supported by Linux drivers - once you know how.

We often refer to things that are unpredictable as being "random" but this is not the same as truly random behavior - which is something we have to work hard to achieve. Put another way - how can a logical deterministic device like a computer produce a random number?

Jumping about with your senses filled by a false input can cause you to fall over or interact with the real world in ways that are just plain wrong. VR can be fun, but it can also be dangerous - who knew that?

Amazon Redshift ML is now generally available and can be used to create, train, and deploy machine learning models directly from a Amazon Redshift cluster.

We look at the first stable release of version 34 of Perl 5. It's the culmination of around 11 months of development and represents 280,000 lines of changes across 2,100 files from 78 authors.

The OpenAI Startup Fund has $100 Million to invest in early-stage AI companies that have the potential to make a profound positive impact by tackling major problems. Preference will be given to founders from underrepresented groups. 

NetBeans 12.4 has been released with feature improvements including support for Java 16, improved Groovy support, and PHP enhancements. This is a feature release that Apache NetBeans says has not been tested as heavily as the 12.0 LTS release and may therefore be less stable.

The World Championship finals of the 2021 Imagine Cup took place during last week's BUILD. Read on to find out who won - or watch the video and judge for yourself. 

Robotic technology can do more than just destroy the world. The opposable thumb is supposed to be what made us great, so what could an extra thumb do for us?

What is Blazor? What is it used for? What kind of applications can you write with it? Is it client side or server side? This free crash course on building Blazor WebAssembly applications based on .NET 5.offers a first class opportunity to get behind the hype of what Blazor is and what it can do.

The annual Hackaday Prize competition has opened with a top prize of $25,000. This year's theme is finding ways to rethink and refresh hardware in light of the Covid pandemic.

IBM has released Project CodeNet, a dataset aimed at teaching AI to translate code from one programming language to another. The dataset consists of 14 million code samples, made up of around 500 million lines of code in 55 programming languages, ranging from C++, Java, Python, and Go to Cobol, Pascal, and Fortran.

Mozilla has announced MDN Plus  a new premium service offering monthly technical deep dives written by industry experts plus additional features.  At the moment there's a wait list to be notified once its available and a sample from one of the articles in the pipeline.