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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 …
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)
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 …
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.
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.