Tag: technology
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Payment Redirection Fraud
Here is an example scenario You receive an email requesting a payment. It could be for rent, it could be fees for a course or any other legitimate reason. Typically, the payment is a significant sum. The email contains the banking details you need to make the payment. Then shortly after the 1st email arrives…
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DevCamp - have we really been doing this for 7 years?
For the last seven years, Dan's been attending Three Rings' annual DevCamp, a week-long hackathon especially for volunteers on Three Rings' Dev Team. And he's only now gotten around to writing about how awesome it is.
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 3
In the final part of his three-part look at the future of VR storytelling, Dan summarises some of what he's learned and ponders the challenges VR storytellers might face.
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 2
Dan embraces the hacker culture of the VR ecosystem by abusing Google Cardboard and borrows an Occulus Rift DK2 in order to continue his virtual adventure...
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 1
Dan's been playing with a Google Cardboard, and it's nothing like The Lawnmower Man nor like any of his virtual reality experiences in the 1990s. The adventure begins...
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Raspberry Pi VPN Hotspot (or How To Infuriate Theresa May For Under £40)
For a small sum of money and a little time, you too can have a little box that encrypts everything on your WiFi network until it leaves the UK.
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EEBO-TCP Hackathon
Last month, Dan attended the EEBO-TCP hackathon, and worked alongside humanities researchers to collaborate on software that extracted previously unexplored data out of 25,000 recently-digitised 15th-17th century texts.
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Squiz CMS Easter Eggs (or: why do I keep seeing Greg's name in my CAPTCHA?)
When using the Squiz CMS, Dan noticed that his CAPTCHA kept containing the same patterns of letters. These turned out to be the names of early developers on the system, which in turn lead Dan to uncover Easter Eggs in the software that have been deliberately concealed by their authors.
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Teaching Kids to Code - Why It Matters
Teaching children to program computers should be seen as being about making a new generation of computer programmers. It should be seen as an essential ingredient in making intellectual, fluent adults of tomorrow who can understand computers, not just "use" them.
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"Tube Map" of the global submarine fibre-optic cable network, produced by Oxford University
AltInternet "Tube map"
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Cosmo - Building A Watercooled PC (Part 1)
Mostly-irrationally, Dan decides that it's time to build a new computer, and sets out to make a souped-up, liquid-cooled monster of a machine. This is the first part of that story.
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Visual Cryptography
How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
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Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
Disclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs. Ive deployed most of the data stores youve heard about, and a few that you probably havent. I’ve picked the wrong…
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Pocket Searching
Accidental pocket-dialling is so last decade. Dan's been practicing accidental pocket-searching, and he's coming up with some strange results.
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TIL that microcomputer pioneer and inventor Clive Sinclair avoids the Internet because it "blurs the mind"
Personal flying machines will be a reality, home computer and electric car pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has said.
He told BBC Radio 4's iPM programme that soon it would be "economically and technically possible" to create flying cars for individuals.
Sir Clive is best-known for the Spectrum computer and his failed electric car effort, the …