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Probabilistic processors possibly pack potent punch By Peter Bright [ArsTechnica]



An old article. Dated August 2010. I went digging for latest news and didn’t find any. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Stuff like new types of processors move slowly and if DARPA is involved, it ( Read more... )

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This future Bob presents is interesting and I want to see it come to life but I also don’t want people to take away from this video the idea that mobile and specialized digital devices are going to kill the PC. Much like the eBook will never eradicate print and bound books, ( Read more... )

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

An awesome experiment and really a great example how Windows really is a well designed operating system despite its numerous flaws and bugs over the years. The  ( Read more... )

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With hacking, music can take control of your car by Robert McMillan [www.itworld.com]

I find this both cool and scary because my car has plenty of these systems and I don’t think it’s gotten a firmware update against these security flaws yet. On the other hand there is still the ( Read more... )

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Ken Jennings is the 74 time Jeopardy Champion. In 2004, he claimed the honors of being the longest streak winner in Jeopardy and all-time leading money winner in American game shows. The other day he earned the prestigious award of Nojh’s Funniest Smart Guy Ever.

I came across Ken ( Read more... )

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Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

A little on the long side but really interesting. I’d like to see a less artistic version where someone maps an entire region and visualizes it in 3D space. I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard. Instead of lights you put a little ( Read more... )

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When the Internet nearly fractured and how it could happen again by Nancy Scola (The Atlantic)

The above link is to a three page article that discusses some of the history of the internet. Spurred by the show of power Egypt displayed by turning off its own internet during their ( Read more... )

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So one of the topics I am very much interested in is the evolution of media and information technology. One of the budding areas that we are watching grow into its toddler, if not teenage, years, is the ebook. To keep the metaphor going, it really is only a matter of time before ( Read more... )

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Let me talk to you about two video games and a lesson designers, writers, and creators can take away from them.


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The issue of internet service has been heating up in Canada as the telecoms have started charging even more and setting data caps that have more than a few Canadian internet based content providers annoyed.

Huge Thompson, a writer for The Globe and Mail, decided to investigate the ( Read more... )