Engineering

Ahead of the NAMM 2022 trade show being held in Anaheim next weekend, San Francisco's Playtime Engineering has unveiled a pair of toys, the Blipbox SK2 synthesizer and the Blipbox myTrack groovebox, designed to help even the youngest musically-inclined minds produce, record, save and share electronic beats and melodies.  Playtime Engineering The SK2's spacey surface detailing belies its ability to generate more than 400 pre-recorded melodies ranging from chiptunes to orchestral, as well as multi-mode…

Xbox engineering lead, Eden Marie, recently shot down hopes that the Xbox Snap feature would be returning. The statement came via a reply from her Twitter account (reported on by Eurogamer), where she responds to a fan asking for a return of the feature by claiming, “While we all miss snap, I don’t think it’s coming back.” Snap was one of the Xbox One’s features that has since been abandoned, and was one of the more useful ones, allowing players to essentially split the screen by placing an app running alongside a…

A special sugar molecule has been discovered by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers that could play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.In a bit of “reverse engineering” research using brain tissues from five people who died with <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Alzheimer’s</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Alzheimer's disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental…

Sierra Gawlowski, PE, earned her BS in civil engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Washington. She has worked for a private engineering consulting firm as well as for public agencies. Sierra enjoys mentoring engineering students and junior staff. She also leads a project team for Engineers Without Borders and currently sits on the board of directors for Kilowatts for Humanity.Gawlowski is a paid member of the Red Ventures Education Integrity Network. Last reviewed May 20, 2022. …

Sierra Gawlowski, PE, earned her BS in civil engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Washington. She has worked for a private engineering consulting firm as well as for public agencies. Sierra enjoys mentoring engineering students and junior staff. She also leads a project team for Engineers Without Borders and currently sits on the board of directors for Kilowatts for Humanity.Gawlowski is a paid member of the Red Ventures Education freelance review network.  Last reviewed April 15,…

How to use Github, versioning, and data quality testing to your advantagePhoto by Estúdio Bloom on UnsplashWhether you started your career as a data engineer, data scientist, or data analyst, best practices in each role can be applied to your analytics workflow. As a former data engineer, I learned best practices for Github such as creating new branches, reviewing pull requests, and versioning my code.But, I’m not going to lie, when you go from a corporate role to a smaller company that is just getting its data stack off…

Introduction We are in the golden age of AI (1). AI adoption makes businesses more creative, competitive, and responsive. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, coupled with the advancements of the cloud, has matured the software production and consumption process. Most organizations prefer to “buy” AI capabilities than “build” their own. Hence SaaS providers, such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, etc., have introduced AI platform capabilities, creating AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) model. This evolution has made AI adoption easier…

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Last month, Sweden's Teenage Engineering launched the first in a new line of portable audio products, the gorgeous but expensive TX-6 mixer. Now the company has revealed the second member of the field family, a modern reworking of its iconic OP-1 pocket synth.The original OP-1 portable synthesizer, sampler and controller made its debut just over a decade ago, and this new flavor is reported to be a natural evolution of that model – rocking an "updated design with the latest technology, and finely tuned with professional…

Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020.Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesThe following is a selection from Big Technology, a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz. To get it in your inbox each week, you can sign up here.Barring a messy, last-minute divorce, Elon Musk is on track to own Twitter (and yes, mea culpa). The mercurial, brilliant entrepreneur offloaded around $8.5 billion of Tesla stock this week as he…