Here’s a random assortment of technology news and links from the week. Google sells Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion via @verge Google has had a string of acquisitions recently, but have gone the other was this time by unloading (currently unprofitable) Motorola. After paying $12.5B for Motorola in 2012, Google is now unloading itRead more
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SolidWorks is a great tool for designing mechanical parts and assemblies, but I find myself using it as a marketing tool fairly often as well. Whether it is needed for proposals, presentations or just visualizing a new project, I’m often asked “can you just make it look real?”. Luckily when using off the shelf components,Read more
I learned a cool trick over the weekend – recovering images from the browser cache, specifically from Google Chrome. That may seem a little obscure or unhelpful but believe me, it can be necessary. Right now you’re probably wondering to yourself “but why would anyone need to do that? I don’t really see the purposeRead more
“What Most Schools Don’t Teach” – A video on the importance of educating kids about software and engineering was recently released by Code.org, a non-profit organization tasked with growing the educational options and opportunities for computer programming. They have some heavy-hitters on their advisory board and offer an assortment of programming tutorials for students andRead more