March 2012
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The Raspberry Pi computer goes on general sale | ...
A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code has gone on sale for the first time.
The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.
Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts.
Supporters hope the machines could help reverse a lack of...
February 2012
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Four Ways Enterprise Social Networks Drive Value →
ibmsocialbiz:
Despite their promise and potential, enterprise social networks (ESNs) have only received moderate traction. The problem is that most deployments are treated as technology deployments with a focus on adoption and usage. A different way to think about this is that enterprise social networks represent a new way to communicate and form relationships — and because of that, can bridge...
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The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having... →
Scientists needed $3 billion and 13 years to sequence the three billion base pairs encoded in a single human genome—the first time. By 2011, eight years after that first project was completed, the cost of sequencing a human genome had fallen to $5,000, in a process that took just a few weeks. And in January, Jonathan Rothberg, a chemical engineer and the founder of the biotech company Ion Torrent,...
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“Scientists at the IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory in collaboration with the ETH...”
– Scientists demonstrate the performance of a new nanoprinting technique | Physorg.com
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“Organizations can achieve unprecedented business results by using social media...”
– Quote by Mark P. McDonald, group vice president and head of research at Gartner Executive Programs. Quote found in a Gartner press release “Gartner Reveals the Next Chapter in Modern Business Management: The Social Organization” (via horizonwatching)
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Emerging Trends by World Economic Forum →
I’ve summarized a list of emerging tech trends that Andrew Maynard summarized from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies assessment:
Informatics for adding value to information [Big Data]
Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
Green Revolution 2.0 – technologies for increased food and biomass
Nanoscale design of materials
Systems biology and...
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MIT: China's pollution costs $112B in annual... →
climateadaptation:
“China’s unprecedented growth is carrying a steadily steeper price tag as its air pollution hikes the nation’s health care costs, finds a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although China has made substantial progress in reducing its air pollution, MIT researchers say its economic impact has jumped from $22 billion in 1975 to $112 billion in 2005....
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Single molecule's electric charges seen in first... →
Researchers have shown off the first images of the “charge distribution” in a single molecule, showing an intricate dance of electrons at tiny scales.
via singularitarian:
Twitter Lets Oscar Fans Get “Extremely Loud”... →
USC, the Los Angeles Times and IBM Go Beyond
Best Picture to Look at the Bigger Picture
By Jonathan Taplin
Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab
The University of Southern California
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The Machines Are Talking a Lot - Technology Review →
The rise of sensors, surveillance cameras, and other automated devices can be seen in a new analysis of Internet traffic.
As one of the leading manufacturers of the equipment that routes data around the Internet, Cisco Systems is in good position to know just how many 0s and 1s go zipping around all day, every day. Today it released an annual analysis of how much Internet usage is growing on...
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With New Standard, Wi-Fi Could Become As... →
In late 2010, Verizon rolled out its 4G LTE network, which offers data speeds 10 times as fast as 3G networks. But as mobile data traffic continues to grow—experts anticipate that it will increase 26-fold in the next three years—it’s unlikely that any network will be able to keep up. Fortunately, something else is set to happen over the next three years: Wi-Fi could become as ubiquitous and easy...
a-colourfullife asked: In relation to your discussion about RFID's capabilities, I'm not sure I agree that it's better than barcodes that need to be "physically" scanned. The range of RFID is only a few inches, and it's not omnidirectional. The scanning device needs to be in a certain orientation in relation to the RFID antenna.
chartier asked: What's your take on the concerns over the security flaws and crackability of RFID? Ars Technica, for example, has been covering the issue for years with stories like "faking RFID chips for $120" and more recently, a crack for a card from Mifare DESfire, which is one of the most popular card types currently in use by industries like public transit and car rentals. (I would include...
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The wonderful Lydia Dean Pilcher, my friend and consummate filmmaker (Darjelling Limited, Vanity Fair, Jesus’ Son) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finish raising money for a dramatic teen girl feature film, “The Sisterhood of Night.” The team has just a few weeks to reach their goal for the film’s $100,000 budget. I’m pitching in to this very worthy project today, and hope you will to....
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“In order to solve contemporary business problems, a big data strategy is needed...”
– What is a Data Scientist? - Forbes (via smartercomputing)
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“While social media has significantly shaped how we communicate and connect in...”
– IBM’s Ethan McCarty in Social Media Week Shines a Light on Social Business
(via ibmsocialbiz)
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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a... →
infoneer-pulse:
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.
The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and...
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a... →
futuresagency:
Scientists are exploring the ‘room at the bottom’ that Richard Fyenman alluded too, years ago, down in the infinitesimal space of quantum computing.
John Markoff via NYTimes.com
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.
The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and...
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Augmented reality headsets are closer than you... →
Will we all be on-line, all the time wearing AR glasses?
It’s just as Neal Stephenson predicted in his 1992 novel, Snow Crash. His detective tracks a murderer through both the real world and the virtual world with the help of his on-line specs.
via davesdailysip:
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Big data and social analytics
Commenting on one of the interesting things [that happens] when businesses try to install a new social platform within the enterprise, Marie Wallace made an interesting comparison between these ventures and feeding a hungry child. “You’re feeding it for 18 to 24 months before it learns to speak,” Wallace said, “What we’re trying to do is get the child to grow up faster.”
via ibmsocialbiz:
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Technology Review: Printed Stickers Could Monitor Food and Vaccines http://goo.gl/mag/viFUI
The Number Of Mobile Devices Will Exceed World’s Population By 2012 (& Other Shocking Figures) - http://pulse.me/s/5YXFF
iamsleepyhead asked: Is there a reason that RFID tags are better/more useful than plain-old barcodes?
