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Apple reportedly granted developers from big-name companies monitored access to Apple Watch at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., to ensure a solid initial app offering when the device launches in April.
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Secret Apple lab allows early Apple Watch access to developers from Facebook, BMW, others

Love it or hate it, social media is here to stay. It might morph into something else, but it has marked our lives forever. Muggles (or maybe not; we can’t just say we’re not muggles after all) that we are, social media might just be some sort of power that tends to get to the […]
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If Harry Potter Had Social Media Access

The MySQL developer tools team is pleased to announce 6.3 Beta – the start of the public beta testing phase of MySQL Workbench 6.3
This release contains a number of new and enhanced features which are feature complete but might still containbugs. So use them with care. For the full list of changes in this revision, visithttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html For detailed information about the new features, see What’sNew in MySQL Workbench 6.3http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:http://ift.tt/KKCsvd Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.1 beta now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20 and Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu14.10 or sources, from: http://ift.tt/KHX9aU Enjoy !
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MySQL Workbench 6.3.1 Beta has been released

Whether you called it a fort or treehouse I think most of us can remember a time when you simply wanted a place of your own. Maybe it was something to escape the stresses of elementary school or maybe a place high in a tree for launching of water balloons […]

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5 Basic Steps for Building Forts and Treehouses

There are a wealth of ways for kids to learn computer science and programming these days. Add to the mix: Google’s own CS First curriculum, a free program with a variety of themes for all kinds of kids’ interests.

CS First isn’t new (the program started last year), but as a program that’s meant for teachers and community volunteers to form computer science clubs for kids ages 9 to 14, you might not have heard about it.

Lesson themes include Music & Sound (create a music video and build an interactive music display), Fashion & Design (build fashion-themed apps), Storytelling (create interactive stories), Game Design (code a game), and so on.

All of the materials (videos, programming in Scratch, and lesson plans) are freely available online, so parents—whether homeschooling or not—and kids with a lot of initiative can check out the lessons themselves. Or, better yet, start a club in your community.

CS First

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Google CS First Teaches Kids Programming and Computer Science for Free

Plastic bottles are made by blow-molding, a beautiful, elegant process that can create a full-bodied shape with a narrow little neck. But how the heck do they make scuba tanks, fire extinguishers and gas canisters, which have similarly narrow necks, but are of course made of non-blow-moldable metal?

My first thought was that they make them in two halves via metal drawing, then weld them together—but obviously that makes no sense. So I looked into and found that yes, a scuba tank comes from a single flat disc of metal alloy.

And while drawing is still the initial production method, I wasn’t aware that what they call "hot spinning" is how you get the bottleneck:

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Production Methods: How to Turn a Flat Metal Disc into a Bottle-Necked Scuba Tank