Techmeme

Results 1 - 10 of about 252:

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry   —  Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—few realize that it feeds data to the ad industry.  —  WHY IT MATTERS  —  There are few options for those wishing to avoid being followed around on the Web.
Jun 18, 2013, 10:10 AMIn context
Jessica Leber / MIT Technology Review:
Google Wants to Help Apps Track You   —  Google will help people who build Android apps follow their users around without draining too much battery life.  —  WHY IT MATTERS  —  Phones could be more useful if they could anticipate their users' needs, which often change with their location.
May 15, 2013, 10:25 PMIn context
The Physics arXiv Blog:
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years   —  A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers  —  One of the dreams for security experts is the creation …
May 6, 2013, 9:25 PMIn context
David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:
African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data   —  The largest-ever release of mobile-phone data yields a model for fixing bus routes.  —  WHY IT MATTERS  —  Traffic is a major drain on productivity.  —  Route cause: A user interface of IBM's cell-phone-data-driven traffic model shows …
May 1, 2013, 8:55 PMIn context
Kevin Bullis / MIT Technology Review:
Sapphire Could Replace Gorilla Glass in the iPhone and other Smartphones   —  Your Next Smartphone Screen May Be Made of Sapphire  —  Manufactured sapphire is incredibly strong and scratch resistant.  Now falling costs and technology improvements could make it competitive with glass.  —  WHY IT MATTERS
Mar 21, 2013, 4:10 AMIn context
MIT Technology Review:
Computer Scientists Measure the Speed of Censorship On China's Twitter   —  Censorship on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, is near real-time and relies on a workforce of over 4000 censors who stop work during the evening news, according the first detailed analysis of censorship patterns
Mar 6, 2013, 9:00 PMIn context
MIT Technology Review:
An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network   —  Following the collapse of the social network Friendster, computer scientists have carried out a digital autopsy to find out what went wrong  —  Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.
Feb 28, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
To Bolster Search, Facebook Nudges its Users to Help Index the Real World - and Build a Data Store to Rival Google's   —  Facebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World  —  Taking aim at Google, the largest social network wants a database describing as many things as possible.  —  WHY IT MATTERS
Feb 27, 2013, 9:00 PMIn context
Jason Pontin / MIT Technology Review:
Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product   —  Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system.  Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 presents its users with virtually the same interface on any device.
Feb 20, 2013, 10:55 AMIn context
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil's Singularity   —  A leading neuroscientist says Kurzweil's Singularity isn't going to happen.  Instead, humans will assimilate machines.  —  Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers …
Feb 19, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context

Sponsor Posts

Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More  —  Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9.  TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance  —  Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development  —  As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.