Schofield’s Laws of Computing are principles that anyone who works with computers should know. They’re focused on data portability, integrity, and security. Jack Schofield was a prolific journalist who wrote for The Guardian and covered technology for nearly four decades. During that time, he wrote three particular articles called “Schofield’s
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Let’s suppose you’re planning to visit your neighborhood store to stock up on essentials. What is the first thing you’d do? Have the answer already? Yes, you’d probably write down a shopping list! Python also has a built-in data structure called List that’s very similar to
When it comes to a real-time locating system (RTLS), there are several wireless communication technologies available to help track assets – WIFI, RFID, GPS, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) – to name a few. Recently, Apple AirTag was released using UWB technology. With all of the developing technologies, one may wonder how these […]
Only a couple of years ago, Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers were primarily concerned with hardware not software. Today, says Richard Hayton, CISO, Trustonic, IoT appliances have changed drastically, with software taking prominence and growing in terms of consumer-related applications. Nowadays, the term “IoT” is mainly used for consumer-focused applications: these include connected vehicles, wearable technology and connected […]
The global wireless industry has experienced more transformation in the last 10 years than in the previous 50, says Emir Aboulhosn, CEO at NetLync. The challenges this last year has brought, in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, have sharpened this focus to an acute and imminent reality bringing on change even faster. From 5G to […]
Access to healthy food is a staggering problem in the U.S., says Holger Kuehnle, executive creative director, at Artefact. Some 19 million Americans live in food deserts, while up to 40% of food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. It’s clear that the existing food system faces an overwhelming efficiency problem. Growing food is […]
The internet of things (IoT) has been gaining sharp momentum in the post-Covid scenario, says Yash Mehta, an IoT and Big Data Science specialist. Almost every business vertical such as manufacturing, transportation, utilities, healthcare and consumer electronics has started implementing IoT in its business processes. This has put IoT product development firms in a position […]
If you’ve been following the news lately, you may have noticed a worrisome tech trend. The frequency and severity of cybersecurity attacks are exploding. We’ve seen news of a sprawling hack involving the SolarWinds management platform. That attack may have compromised the systems of over 18,000 SolarWinds customers. Then,
Computer vision is being used in more and more applications. We just released a full course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will help you learn advanced computer vision using Python. You will learn state of the art computer vision techniques by building five projects with libraries such as
When you’re training a machine learning model, you can have some features in your dataset that represent categorical values. Categorical features are types of data that you can divide into groups. There are three common categorical data types: Ordinal – a set of values in ascending or descending order. Example: rating

