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Tuesday, June 20, 2017 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements IP*Works! 2016 Now Available The industry's most trusted toolset for internet tasks such as encryption, sending email, transferring files, managing networks, consuming Web Services, and more. This release delivers new technology and performance/API enhancements. Download a free trial today. Complete Solutions for .NET, JavaScript, and Xamarin Developers Update your toolbox with cross-platform, extensible UI, reporting, and spreadsheet controls for .NET, HTML 5, JavaScript, and Xamarin. Get complete solutions for your development roadblocks. Download your free 30-day trial. Need Excel on the Web? Take your browser-based applications beyond the limits of HTML and JavaScript with high-performance, Excel-compatible spreadsheet controls from SpreadsheetGear-the leader in .NET spreadsheets. Try the live SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples Now! Industry News Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines "I'm more confident than ever that Intel will uniquely lead the revolution that will create our future smart and connected world." Source: Hackaday Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network Blockchain is the new GUID? Source: Reuters Google steps up efforts to block extremism, following Facebook Those people that hate cat videos must be stopped! Source: Phys.org Serious privilege escalation bug in Unix OSes imperils servers everywhere Is it The Year of Linux Hacks? Source: Ars Technica The US Supreme Court just ruled that using social media is a constitutional right You can take my Twitter from my cold dead hands! Source: Quartz Source: CommitStrip Developer News The NSA (yes, that NSA) has a Github account now Help them hack you Source: The Next Web Should software developers be generalists or specialists? Yes Source: Simple Programmer How does recent 'dev destroys production database' mistake rank with other programming disasters? "There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster." Source: ADTMag Pumping (big) iron In a strange coincidence, the author works for a company providing mainframe languages and services Source: SD Times Fuze Code Studio will let kids use the Switch to code their own Switch games Press 'jump' to add a loop? Source: The Verge Science and Technology NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanets, Boosts Total to 4,034 "Where is everybody?" Source: Space.com Elon Musk claims Mars colony dreams critical to avoid 'Doomsday' event Or, you know, we could just try to avoid "Doomsday" Source: ZDNet You're always just a typo away from the Large Hardon Collider Because I'm juvenile Source: The Verge Code Project Discussions - Your say! Programming question: Map, Filter, and Reduce "There is nothing new under the sun." Source: CodeProject This week's survey I like Big Data, I cannot lie Source: CodeProject © 2017 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click Unsubscribe. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use Insider@codeproject.com