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Meet Alyssa Carson, the 18-year-old training to become the first human on Mars

Jul26
by on July 26, 2019 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space


At just three years old, Alyssa Carson knew she wanted to be an astronaut, and since then, she’s worked tirelessly. Carson could soon become the first human to set foot on Mars — even if it means never returning back to Earth.  “My fascination with space all started when I watched an episode of the cartoon The Backyardigans called ‘A Mission to Mars,” Carson told TNW. “[In that episode] all the friends went on this imaginary adventure in their backyard which eventually brought them to Mars. I had the poster for that episode hung on my bedroom wall for years.”  Growing…

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PUBG’s lite version for India works on budget phones and comes in under 400MB

Jul26
by on July 26, 2019 at 8:26 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, gaming, India


Popular battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), just released a lite mobile version for India. The lite version for Android an installation package of 400MB, that’s just a fourth of the size of the normal variant which is sized at 1.6GB. Tencent Games and PUBG Corp, which developed the game, says it has redesigned the app with Unreal Engine 4 to make it work with phones that have less than 2GB RAM. To make the gameplay exciting, PUBG Lite features a special map that can handle 60 players, with a game-time of 10 minutes. The game also has some new features designed for a redacted…

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These are the hours of day famous programmers get work done

Jul26
by on July 26, 2019 at 7:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, creative, Design & Dev, syndication


I was curious when the famous programmers do their work. And it is quite easy to find. The result of programmers work is a code. Code is stored in version control systems (VCS). When you put code in VCS the time is record. One of the most popular version control system is git. When you put code in it you create the thing called “commit”. Here is an example of raw information about some git commit: $ git cat-file commit 82be015 tree 496d6428b9cf92981dc9495211e6e1120fb6f2ba author Ivan Bessarabov <ivan@bessarabov.ru> 1563188141 +0300 committer Ivan Bessarabov <ivan@bessarabov.ru> 1563188141 +0300 Initial commit Here you can…

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Ethereum lagged in active dapp users in Q2, but its price doubled – here’s what happened

Jul26
by on July 26, 2019 at 6:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


If you’ve been interested in cryptocurrency and blockchain for anything more than a week, you’ll almost certainly know about Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum platform. But if you don’t here’s a quick recap on what Ethereum is. Ethereum’s creators wanted to build a platform that would allow users all over the world to write decentralized applications, and use the Ethereum blockchain as what it calls a “world computer.” Ethereum made smart contracts a common part of the blockchain conversation. Smart contracts are programming tools that let developers write self-executing scripts that run on the Ethereum blockchain. When these scripts are executed, the…

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