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Seven equations that rule your world
Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:36 AM EST (New Scientist)
THE alarm rings. You glance at the clock. The time is 6.30 am. You haven't even got out of bed, and already at least six mathematical equations have influenced your life.
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:24 AM EST (Stanford Knowledgebase)
An excellent read from Stanford Law: The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective.
McDonald's Twitter Campaign Goes Horribly Wrong #McDStories
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:48 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
A twitter campaign by McDonald's backfired when people started sharing the wrong kind of #McDStories (via @bored2tears). McDonald's kicked things off on Thursday with the hashtag #MeetTheFarmers, in a campaign meant to draw attention to the brand's guarantee of fresh produce. L …
Stephen Hawking's New PC
Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:20 AM EST (Free Press)
The Acclaimed Physicist and Author of "A Brief History of Time" Uses a Custom-Built PC That's Hand Delivered and Set Up for His Use For a man who was diagnosed with a devastating motor neuron disease at age 21 and given just 3 years to live, brilliant British scientist Stephen H …
3D Printing, Teleporters and Wishes - Anil Dash
Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:27 PM EST (Anil Dash)
I've been infatuated with 3D printing for a few years now; the rise of (NYC's own!) MakerBot and other startups offering simple ways to create physical objects as easily as we create paper output from our computers is extraordinarily exciting.
IBM Watson to battle patent trolls
Seeded on Fri Dec 9, 2011 2:10 PM EST (Extreme Tech)
IBM’s Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining.
Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips
Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:31 PM EST (MIT)
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips — devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their computational tasks.
iPhone and Surface: The moment Apple and Microsoft diverged
Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:03 PM EST (TechRepublic)
In June 2007, both Apple and Microsoft were poised to reinvent computing. Only one of them delivered, and it changed the destiny of both companies.
The Xbox turns ten: how Halo showed the industry the future of gaming
Seeded on Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:33 PM EST (Ars Technica)
The Xbox brand celebrates its tenth anniversary today, and we are here to celebrate.
The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage
Seeded on Mon Nov 7, 2011 8:20 AM EST (Ars Technica)
A couple of interesting things happened in the world of Web browser usage during October. The more significant one is that Internet Explorer's share of global browser usage dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade.
10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction)
Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:59 AM EDT (io9)
10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction)
Holodesk prototype puts life in computers (w/ video)
Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:07 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
A research project at Microsoft Research Cambridge has brought forth a prototype called Holodesk, which lets you manipulate virtual objects with your hand. You literally "get your hands on" the virtual display.
The birth of the iPod | Macworld
Seeded on Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:49 AM EDT (Macworld)
The destiny of Apple changed drastically 10 years ago with the release of a deceptively simple digital music player. On October 23, 2001, Apple lifted the curtain on the very first iPod, which packed 5GB of music storage into a sleek white box no bigger than a deck of cards.
Deep inside ARM's new Intel killer • The Register
Seeded on Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:29 PM EDT (The Register (UK))
ARM has swung a one-two punch at Intel's plans to muscle in on the smartphone and tablet space that's currently dominated by the plucky chip designers from Cambridge. At press soirées in London and San Francisco on Wednesday, ARM announced both a design for a tiny new chi …
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies
Seeded on Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:17 AM EDT (ZDNet )
Dennis Ritchie, whose death after a long illness was reported on Wednesday and confirmed on Thursday by Bell Labs, similarly embodied a unique yet admirable approach to systems design: a man with a lifelong focus on making software that satisfied the intellect while freeing progr …
Star Trek: From William Shatner to J.J. Abrams, it's still relevant at 45 | PopWatch | EW.com
Seeded on Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:29 AM EDT (EW.com)
Break out the Romulan ale! This fall marks the 45th anniversary of Star Trek. Trek’s humble origins are almost hard to believe.
Cutting the cord: how the world's engineers built Wi-Fi
Seeded on Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:30 AM EDT (Ars Technica)
In the 1980s, even before connectivity to the Internet became commonplace, people realized that connecting a group of computers together in a local area network (LAN) made those computers much more useful.
See You, Zune: An Obit for Microsoft's Media Player
Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 1:04 PM EDT (LapTop)
Thanks for the Flash memories. A little more than five years, Microsoft has pulled the plug on both the Zune Original and one of my favorite pieces of tech Zune HD.
As its Tevatron collider goes dark, Fermilab ponders a muon-rich future
Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:36 PM EDT (Ars Technica)
Since the 1980s, the US government's Chicago-area Fermilab has been at the forefront of high-energy physics. That's in large part thanks to the Tevatron, the machine that first reached the energies needed to discover the last quark in the Standard Model.
The iPad challengers: A status report | Challengers - CNET News
Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:20 PM EDT (CNET.com)
At first, it must have looked so easy. Within nanoseconds of Steve Jobs' January 2010 unveiling of the iPad, a gaggle of companies decided to get into the tablet business. Some decided to design their own operating systems; others chose to license software.
Mobile Apps Must Die | Blog | design mind
Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:27 AM EDT (Designmind)
The problem with apps, and by this I mean native apps that must be downloaded to your phone, is that they are just becoming too much trouble to organize and maintain.
Quake 2 Source Code Review
Seeded on Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:31 AM EDT ()
Really good read on the Quake Game engine, I like that you can open the code with MS VS 2008 (even express), if you have VS 2010 read the comments to see how to run it.
AIDS Puzzle Solved By Computer Gamers | TPM Idea Lab
Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:42 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
Computer game skills could help save lives, and not just virtual ones. As fanciful as it may sound at first, gamers on Foldit, a crowdsourced, online protein folding simulator from the University of Washington, actually managed to solve a longstanding problem in AIDS research th …
Which Country Has the World's Fastest Internet? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:36 AM EDT (Mashable!)
Which county has the world’s fastest Internet service? How about South Korea. That’s according to a new study from content delivery service Pando Networks that sampled some 35 petabytes of data from 27 million downloads and 224 countries.
UNIVAC: the troubled life of America's first computer
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:39 AM EDT (Ars Technica)
During the Second World War, two teams in the United States were deployed to improve the calculations necessary for artillery firing and strategic bombing. Hopper worked with Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken, whose Mark I computer performed computations for the Navy.
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'Couch surfing' death leads to charges - Montreal - CBC NewsA Quebec man is expected to face a third charge Monday in connection with the death of a 22-year-old man after a road stunt involving a sled-mounted couch went wrong over the weekend.
- Seven equations that rule your world
THE alarm rings. You glance at the clock. The time is 6.30 am. You haven't even got out of bed, and already at least six mathematical equations have influenced your life.
- Senate To Vote On Bill That Could Kick TSA Out Of Airports
Following House approval of the measure on Friday, the Senate is set to vote today on legislation that would allow U.S.
- Tennessee begins to push back against NDAA tyranny
Tennessee, the Volunteer State, has begun to push back against the tyranny that is the indefinite detention provisions contained in the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012, better known simply as the NDAA.
- Europe Rises Up Against ACTA
Following the growing protests about ACTA in Europe, as well as signs of US meddling, Poland’s prime minister is making it clear that Poland will not ratify ACTA for the time being, leading to speculation that the EU may not actually join ACTA.
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'Couch surfing' death leads to charges - Montreal - CBC News
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Seven equations that rule your world
Seven equations that rule your world
Tennessee begins to push back against NDAA tyranny
Senate To Vote On Bill That Could Kick TSA Out Of Airports
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
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