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David Pogue / Scientific American:
How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy   —  The death of the DVD is pushing users to piracy  —  Face it, movie fans: the DVD is destined to be dead as a doornail.  —  Only a few Blockbuster stores are still open.  Netflix's CEO says, “We expect DVD subscribers to decline steadily every quarter, forever.”
Aug 25, 2012, 1:50 PMIn context
Larry Greenemeier / Scientific American:
Could “Computational Sprinting” Speed Up Smart Phones without Burning Them Out?   —  Researchers study the idea of alternately powering up and then cooling down mobile processors to squeeze out better performance without overheating  —  The demands placed on smart phones by marathon sessions of texting …
Mar 1, 2012, 1:55 AMIn context
Dave Mosher / Scientific American:
High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?   —  Brain scans hint excessive time online is tied to stark physical changes in the brain  —  Kids spend an increasing fraction of their formative years online, and it is a habit they dutifully carry into adulthood.
Jun 20, 2011, 7:25 AMIn context
Tim Berners-Lee / Scientific American:
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality   —  The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty.  Like democracy itself, it needs defending  —  The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990.
Nov 19, 2010, 10:00 AMIn context

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Windows 8 Tips  —  Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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).