Servo motors are basic to many an IoT project and they are easy to work with and there is no need for a driver. This is an extract from a recent book in the I Programmer Library, all about the Pico/W in C.

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Monte Carlo methods are powerful ways of getting answers using random numbers to problems that really don't seem to have anything much to do with randomness. For example, you can find Pi and multiply two matrices together all by generating random numbers.

The 2024 edition of the State of CSS has been posted, revealing that CSS the latest features of the language give it the ability ...

At last ISO C23 has been published, but at $250 you probably aren't going to read it. Can we really tolerate this sort of profiteering on the work of others? This is worse than academic publishing!

One of developers who worked on the Flutter team at Google has created an open-source form of the framework. Matt Carroll says Flock will be "Flutter+", will remain constantly up to date with Flutter, and lock will add important bug fixes and popular community features, which the Flutter team either can't, or won't implement.

Google is offering a 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course designed to equip data scientists with the knowledge and skills to tackle generative AI projects with confidence. It runs on the Kaggle platform from Monday, November 11 to Friday, November 15 with a time commitment of around 3 hours per day.

Kotlin Ktor 3 is now available with better performance and improvements including support for server-sent events and CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) protection.

Amazon has added a new code editing option for AWS Lambda in the AWS console based on the Code-OSS, Visual Studio Code Open Source code editor.

Introduced to the world in 2004 by its creator Bruno Maisonnier the kid-sized, autonomous humanoid robot NAO, turns 20 this year. At less than 2 ft tall, it is small in stature, but plays a big role in the areas of education, research, entertainment and football. Here we look forward to NAO 7, its seventh generation.

Google has announced updates to the Responsible Generative AI Toolkit to enable it to be used with any LLM model. The Responsible GenAI Toolkit provides resources to design, build, and evaluate open AI models, and it can now work with any LLM, whether it's Gemma, Gemini, or any other model.

Sotheby's Digital Art Day Action, now underway, features a large-scale portrait of  Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, the humanoid robot artist whose work, including this canvas, was exhibited at the United Nations in May 2024 during the AI for Good Global Summit.

Sequin is a tool for capturing changes and streaming data out of your Postgres database, guaranteeing exactly once processing. What does that mean?

Apache Fury has been updated to add GraalVM native images and with optimized serializers for Scala collection. The update also reduces Scala collection serialization cost via the use of  encoding.

Author: Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Publisher: No Starch
Date: October 2024
Pages: 376
ISBN:978-1718503847
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Audience: Programmers wanting to understand cryptography
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Harry Fairhead
Cryptography is so important - can you afford not to read a good book on the subject?

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of Application Programming Interface (API) development, from initial design through implementation, testing, documentation, release, versioning, maintenance, and deprecation.Martin Reddy teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including interface design, versioning, scripting, and plug-in extensibility.

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This book looks at the need to get coupling right if you want to build modular, evolvable, and resilient software systems. Vlad Khononov describes a model that not only draws on this accumulated knowledge, but also adapts it to modern software engineering practices, offering a fresh perspective on modular software design.

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This book provides a roadmap to using the world of artificial intelligence to enhance personal and professional lives. Pam Baker explains how generative AI tools are capable of creating text, images, and even ideas, and can assist in authoring short and long-form content, producing audio and video, and serving as a research assistant. Readers will learn how to identify the best platforms for their needs and write the prompts that coax out the content they want.

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