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Laurene Powell Jobs and Anonymous Giving in Silicon Valley
— In Silicon Valley, people get very rich, very fast, often when they are very young. As a result, they are often criticized for not giving away enough of that money. — There are signs that is changing, as people like Mark Zuckerberg become more philanthropic.
May 24, 2013, 11:50 PM–
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GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award
— Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs.
May 22, 2013, 1:55 AM–
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At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom
— The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal. — I had just wrapped up a conversation with a man who owned a pair of Google's Internet-connected glasses, Google Glass.
May 18, 2013, 4:45 PM–
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| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
New Apps Arrive on Google Glass
— Google Glass, the company's Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
May 16, 2013, 1:50 PM–
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Google Buys a Quantum Computer
— Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study artificial intelligence by means of computers that use the unusual properties of quantum physics. Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers …
May 16, 2013, 9:25 AM–
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Leaping to Conclusions on a Pilot's Speculation
— An article on the Bloomberg News Web site on Wednesday noted an airline pilot's claim that an iPhone could interfere with a plane's compasses during takeoff and landing. — But the report cited in the article isn't based on scientific research.
May 15, 2013, 5:50 PM–
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Many Air Passengers Never Turn Off Electronics, Survey Finds
— Take a guess at how many people actually fail to turn off their gadgets during takeoff and landing of a flight. Ten percent? No, that's too low. Twenty percent? Still too low. — In a study released on Thursday …
May 9, 2013, 11:55 PM–
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| Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
SAP Takes It All to the Cloud
— SAP, the German software giant, is making one of the largest pushes into cloud computing yet seen from a large incumbent company. It may even be destroying its own business, in order to build for a new one. — SAP is famous for developing enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software.
May 7, 2013, 8:35 PM–
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
Jack Dorsey Talks Square and Wearable Devices
— Many technology enthusiasts have had their eye on Glass, Google's monocle that looks like something out of Star Trek. But the Internet-connected eyewear doesn't really pique the interest of Jack Dorsey, chief executive of the mobile payment system Square and a co-founder of Twitter.
Apr 29, 2013, 11:30 PM–
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
— Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off.
Apr 28, 2013, 11:40 PM–
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.