‘US Government Should Protect the Public from Copyright Extremes’
Changes in power often present opportunities, including in the US where a new President and Congress were recently sworn in. Last week, we reported how a pro-copyright coalition took this opportunity to ask President Biden for help in their battle against online piracy. The copyright holders were particularly critical of big tech companies such as Google and Facebook, accusing them of hiding behind the DMCA’s safe harbor. That should...
Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 03/01/2021
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two new entries in the list. Monster Hunter is the most downloaded title. The most torrented movies for the week ending on March 1 are: Movie Rank Rank...
Monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana Cloud
You may have heard of Grafana, a time-series dashboarding tool that helps you discover what’s going on in your environment. People from hobbyists to enterprise professionals like to use it for visualizations because it is open source and can accept data from myriad sources. This article describes how to use it to monitor your Raspberry Pi as an example of Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring. read more Powered by...
Learn Java with object orientation by building a classic Breakout game
As a second-semester student in systems and digital media at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, I was given the assignment to remake the classic Atari 2600 Breakout game from 1978. I am still in my infancy in learning software development, and this was a challenging experience. It was also a gainful one because I learned a lot, especially about applying object-oriented concepts. read more Powered by...
3 features that debuted in Python 3.0 you should use now
This is the first in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.0 was first released in 2008, and even though it has been out for a while, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three you should know about. read more Powered by...
