How to install WordPress.com desktop app on Ubuntu

Start by opening your terminal and executing the following command to install all prerequisites: $ sudo apt install libgtkextra-dev gdebi-core Use your browser to download the wordpress.com Desktop app DEB package or use the following wgetshortcut command: $ wget -O wordpress_app.deb https://bit.ly/2uUiTdz Next, install the wordpress_app.deb package downloaded in the previous step: $ sudo gdebi wordpress_app.deb

UK government dishes out £7m for new aviation tech

Projects which will explore medical deliveries by drone, hydrogen delivery aircraft, and retrofitting aircraft with electric propulsion are among 20 to receive funding from the UK government.  The £7m funding is part of the £33.5m available via the ‘Future Flight Challenge’, which aims to develop technologies to enable new classes of aircraft and reduce reliance … Read more

Stretchy, recyclable wearable adheres to human skin

A wearable electronic device that can stretch and adhere to human skin has been developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.  The device is able to heal itself, much like real skin, and can perform a range of sensory tasks, from measuring the body temperature of users to tracking their daily step counts. … Read more

Moon rocks turned into oxygen and construction metals for future base

A British firm has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop methods to process Moon dust into its constituent elements of oxygen and metal alloys.  With plans afoot to build a base on the Moon (possibly powered by nuclear fission) as a jumping-off point for a mission to Mars, work is being undertaken to … Read more

Numbers

Values of the number type are, unsurprisingly, numeric values. In a JavaScript program, they are written as follows: 13 Use that in a program, and it will cause the bit pattern for the number 13 to come into existence inside the computer’s memory. JavaScript uses a fixed number of bits, 64 of them, to store … Read more

Values

Imagine a sea of bits—an ocean of them. A typical modern computer has more than 30 billion bits in its volatile data storage (working memory). Nonvolatile storage (the hard disk or equivalent) tends to have yet a few orders of magnitude more. To be able to work with such quantities of bits without getting lost, … Read more

COVID-19 outlook for the US technology industry

To recover from the crisis while making a bold play for a thriving future, there are three key strategic issues that technology companies should consider.   Positioning industries for a stronger future The continuing COVID-19 crisis is creating enormous uncertainty and change—and questions with no obvious answers: Which changes will persist? What will the new … Read more