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Flash, Interactive, Generative & Online Art. Apache Mahout: Scalable machine learning and data mining. How to get Jelly Bean on your Samsung Galaxy S3. If you've munched your way through Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and you're still craving the next sugary Android fix -- and can't wait for the software update to be dished out to your Samsung Galaxy S3 -- then read on. Jelly Bean (or Android 4.1, if you want to be all serious about it), was launched with the Google Nexus 7 tablet in July, and will arrive with UK Galaxy S3 users over the next few weeks. You can find out what it brings to your phone here. When it will officially reach your handset will depend on when your network gets around to rolling it out. Are you too impatient to hang around for them to pull their finger out? If so, we're here to help, with this guide on how to install a straight-up Jelly Bean ROM that's lovely and stable on your Galaxy S3. 1.

You've already rooted your phone, right? We wrote a big old guide on how to do that here . 2. Next up, we need a suitable ROM to bring sweet Jelly Bean treats to your phone. 3. 4. You're almost there now! 4. Cargo-Bot, An Addictive iPad Game That Teaches Programming Concepts. The key to learning to code is learning to think like a computer--which is a hard thing to do.

"It requires structured thinking, ability to abstract details away, and there’s little margin for error--one little typo and your program might do something entirely different from what you wanted," says game developer Rui Viana. "The real world just doesn’t work like that, so it’s hard to get your head around it. " Which is precisely why Viana created Cargo-Bot, a simple iPad app that turns "thinking like a computer" into a genuinely addictive puzzle game. It’s like Angry Birds crossed with Codecademy, and it’s total genius. Most of the press that Cargo-Bot has gotten so far focuses on the fact that the game was itself programmed entirely on an iPad (using another app called Codea). That’s pretty great, but it’s missing the larger point: who cares what device you can or can’t program stuff on, if you never want to program anything? That’s the problem that Cargo-Bot so brilliantly solves. About DoubleDutch. Media Lab. DreamPlug.

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