2-Day Outage
You may have noticed Cognitive Metropolis was offline for 2 Days. Yeah, that was my fault... It was that time of the year and NetworkSolutions wanted to gouge me again…
How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files
Do you use YouTube for the music? If you want to save your favorite YouTube videos as audio files, certain websites and software can strip out the music tracks and…
Defense Firm Said U.S. Spies Backed Its Bid for Pegasus Spyware Maker
A team of executives from an American military contractor quietly visited Israel numerous times in recent months to try to carry out a bold but risky plan: purchasing NSO Group,…
The risk of undermanaged open source software
Relying on open source doesn’t mean you are opening your organization up to vulnerabilities, as long as you review the code for any security concerns. Unlike proprietary software, open source…
Wild tech predictions for 2022 that probably won’t happen
What's the point of prognosticating if you can't swing for the fences, amirite? Sure, you can go elsewhere and read predictions for a very incremental 2022, but you come to…
The internet is breaking. Here’s how to save it.
This is a seminal article written in 2016 - Thank you for your Service. Written by Dan Kaminsky. We could lose this internet. Or we could save it. I prefer…
HTML Data Cleaning in Python for NLP
The most important step of any data-driven project is obtaining quality data. Without these preprocessing steps, the results of a project can easily be biased or completely misunderstood. Here, we…
Step-by-step guide to face recognition in real-time using OpenCv library
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision applications and to…
Working with PDFs in Python: Reading and Splitting Pages
Today, the Portable Document Format (PDF) belongs to the most commonly used data formats. In 1990, the structure of a PDF document was defined by Adobe. The idea behind the…
Creating a Blockchain from Scratch
Blockchains are becoming increasingly popular in today’s markets. Services that provide blockchain technology are already being designed by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other huge companies. Many people often correlate blockchain…