Apple News: Apple and Google crack the whip on Flappy Bird clones
Apple and Google are cracking down on Flappy Bird clones, following the popular game app’s shockingly sudden demise last week. That’s according to The Verge, which has heard from a number of app developers that both Apple and Google are cracking down on apps blatantly cashing in on Flappy Bird. While clones such as Splashy Fish are still showing up at the top of the iTunes Store, developers have told the news website that no new Flappy Bird ripoffs are being allowed on either the iTunes App Store or Google Play store.
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Technology News: Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here
It’s Monday morning once again and time to spend a few minutes catching up on what happened in the world of tech over the weekend. Don’t worry, we won’t tell anyone you weren’t paying attention. Go ahead, make a coffee, put your feet up and spend a few minutes catching up on all the tech news and features you missed from The Next Web and beyond over the last two days.
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Programming News: Data Analysis: The Hard Parts
I don’t know whether this word exists, but mainstreamification is what’s happening to data analysis right now. Projects like Pandas or scikit-learn are open source, free, and allow anyone with some Python skills do lift some serious data analysis. Projects like MLbase or Apache Mahout work to make data analysis scalable such that you can tackle those terabytes of old log data right away. Events like the Urban Data Hack, which just took place in London, show how easy it has become to do some pretty impressive stuff with data. The general message is: Data analysis has become super easy. But has it? I think people want it to be, because they have understood what data analysis can do for them, but there is a real shortage in people who are good at it. So the usual technological solution is to write tools which empower more people do it. And for many problems, I agree that this is how it works. You don’t need to know TCP/IP to fetch some data from the Internet because there are libraries for that, right?
Read full story => MikioBraun
Photography News: Breathtaking Pictures of Mountains
Mountains, one of the Earth’s most inspirational landscapes, cover about 20% of the world’s land surface. Mountains are popular places for hiking, climbing, skiing, biking, and exploring the immense beauty they display; all the more reason to enjoy these breathtaking photos.
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