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Christopher Mims / Quartz:
The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food   —  Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea.  And indeed Contractor's company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation …
May 21, 2013, 12:25 PMIn context
Leo Mirani / Quartz:
How Facebook could save Nokia   —  On Tuesday, Nokia chief Stephen Elop fielded questions from irate shareholders at his company's annual meeting in Helsinki.  When, they wanted to know, would he do something about Apple and Samsung?  In London next week, Nokia will announce its new high-end flagship product, whatever it is.
May 9, 2013, 8:35 PMIn context
Christopher Mims / Quartz:
New Zealand isn't exactly outlawing software patents—it's doing something more interesting   —  Despite what you may have read, New Zealand is not “banning” software patents.  Indeed, the country has never explicitly allowed the patenting of software in the first place …
May 9, 2013, 6:25 PMIn context
Christopher Mims / Quartz:
How much would you pay to never see an online ad again?   —  The little white box that companies who charge for content rather than advertising against it should probably give away for free.  AdTrap  —  Imagine a $120 box that sits between your cable modem (the box that brings the internet into your house) …
Nov 10, 2012, 7:50 PMIn context
Christopher Mims / Quartz:
Why Apple is launching the iPad mini, in one statistic   —  One in four US adults now owns a tablet computer, and two-thirds of those who own a tablet purchased them in the last year, reports The Economist's Leanback 2.0 blog.  (This data does not reflect the introduction of the Google's new 7-inch tablet …
Oct 3, 2012, 10:30 AMIn context

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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line  —  Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).