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Students from the Stanford Graduate School of Education’s Learning, Design and Technology master’s program will showcase their master’s projects on July 29 at the LDT Expo on the Stanford campus.

via Stanford to Showcase Learning, Design and Technology Student Master’s Projects — Campus Technology: All Articles

Properly organizing information is essential, but it can be hard to know where to start. Learn the fundamental building blocks of a modern information architecture. We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. Christopher AlexanderContinue reading…

via The anatomy of an information architecture — All – O’Reilly Media

Since Pokemon Go blew up the world a couple of weeks ago we’ve been trying to catch ’em all. Not the Pokemon; we’ve been trying to collect all the hardware hacks, and in particular the most complete GPS spoofing hack. We are now ready to declare the first Grandmaster GPS spoofing hack for Pokemon Go.…

via We Declare The Grandmaster Of Pokemon Go GPS Cheats — Hackaday

Summary: System integration by writing and reading claims on a distributed ledger solves some big problems. Consider a distributed ledger that provides people (among other principles) with an identity and a place to read and write, securely and privately, various claims. As a distributed ledger, it’s not controlled by any single organization and is radically…

via Service Integration Via a Distributed Ledger — Phil Windley’s Technometria

One of the options available when using Apple’s two-factor authentication (2FA) is to have a code sent to you via SMS. The US National Institute for Standards and Technology, which sets the standards for authentication software, says that text messaging is not sufficiently secure, and that its use for two-factor authentication will in future be barred. more…Filed under: Apple

via Apple & others may soon be barred from using SMS for two-factor authentication — 9to5Mac

One of the most interesting presentations at DockerCon was on the implementation of containers (and Docker specifically) on the Microsoft Windows Server platform. The Microsoft presentation was given by John Starks and Taylor Brown, although John did the majority of the presenting. You can find the video online here. Implementing containerisation for Windows has obviously……

via Windows Containers – Making Windows Server Relevant Again — Architecting IT

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/nano-server/getting-started-with-nano-server

I’m finding out a bit more about the Nano-ized version of Windows Server 2016. I’m very curious to see where this goes as the binaries for a Nano-headless instance of Server 2016 weighs in at ~600MB! Now that’s pretty slick especially if it is really capable of handling the same loads/functions as a typical GUI server instance on bare hardware (not necessarily running under a VM hypervisor).

Samsung today introduced the world’s first flash memory cards in UFS form-factor. The cards are compliant with the UFS Card 1.0 specification and offer performance comparable to that of desktop SATA SSDs. It is worth noting that the new cards are not backwards compatible with current microSD devices, which use various versions of SD cards,…

via Samsung Rolls Out Its First UFS Cards: SSD Performance in Card Form-Factor — AnandTech

Is a country merely constituted by a census of number of supposed inhabitants? It memes so. Via, I believe a recommendation on YouTube (based upon algorithms that absorb my activities), last night I watched the english translation of the documentary Facebookistan In this country, there are people who delete their content, but on request for…

via What do you mean “If” Facebook were a country? — CogDogBlog

800 years after its creation, the Scrolls of Frolicking Animals are still inspiring new content, thanks to the anime studio Hayao Miyazaki built. For the most part, Studio Ghibli doesn’t do sequels. Yes, Baron, from 1995’s Whisper of the Heart also plays a key role in The Cat Returns, released in 2002, and the Mei…

via Studio Ghibli releases second short adaptation of Japan’s oldest manga【Video】 — RocketNews24