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Why Google Could Be Planning a Self-Branded Touchscreen Chromebook
Google is rumored to be working on its own branded notebook featuring a touchscreen, capping off a fresh wave of similar devices, according to reports. The story was first reported by the China Times and later picked up by TechCrunch, and claims that the internet search firm has already placed a large order with Taiwan-based ...
NEC ‘Convection Cooled’ Data Centers Slash Energy Use By 30%
Japanese electronics firm NEC has revealed its working on a new kind of data center – one that’s smaller, and relies on convection to slash power consumption by as much as one third over traditional data centers, even in warm climates. NEC said that its new prototype data centers can achieve this dramatic reduction in ...
Center For Study Of Existential Risk To Assess “Terminator” Threat
The “rise of the machines”, or robots rising up to take over the world and wipe out humanity has been a popular theme in the science fiction world for decades, but does mankind really need to live in fear of an artificially intelligent nemesis? That’s the question that a new academic center at Cambridge University ...
Google Launches Petition Against German “Link Tax”
Threatened with new copyright laws that would force search engines to pay for ‘snippets’ of content displayed on aggregators like Google News, the world’s biggest search engine has launched a campaign to prevent the laws from being enacted. Google has stepped up its response to the so called Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger bill, or ‘ancillary copyright ...
Running The Country… There’s An App For That Too!
UK Prime Minster David Cameron, long known to be a keen iPad user, has volunteered to test drive a new app that helps aid his decision making and oversee the day-to-day affairs of government. A description of the “Number 10 Dashboard” on BBC news says that “with a few swipes or taps of his fingers, ...
Is It A Laptop? A Tablet? A Phone? No, It’s A Credit Card
Now this is a pretty cool thing – Mastercard has just released a new kind of credit card that features a built-in keyboard and an LCD display. The next-generation credit card, known as the Display Card, features touch-sensitive buttons and has the ability to create one-time passwords (OTPs), which will do away with the need for ...
Nate Silver’s Presidential Predictions Show Why You NEED Big Data
Now that the dust has settled and Barack Obama has landed safely behind his desk at the White House for another four years, we can finally see who the real winners and losers were at this general election. And no, it wasn’t any political party. You want to know who really came out on top ...
What Imagination’s Acquisition of MIPS Means for Mobile Chip Diversity
Mobile graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies has just thrown down the gauntlet in the smartphone arena, with the acquisition of CPU architect MIPS Technologies for a cool $60m. The deal, which will see Imagination Technologies step up its challenge against an increasingly dominant ARM Holdings, sees the company takeover MIPS’ entire business operations and many ...
Big Brother’s Big Data: Locking Down Our Borders
The police are no strangers to big data, using analytical software to help them predict crime hotspots, and license plate scanners to identify stolen cars and disqualified drivers on the road. So it should come as no surprise to learn that other arms of law enforcement, specifically customs, are looking at data-driven solutions to help ...
Dotcom Hopes Dashed: Me.ga Takedown Is A US “Witch Hunt”
Kim Dotcom’s plans to relaunch file-sharing service Megaupload as Me.ga appear to have been dashed, after the Gabonese government, which owns the .ga domain, announced it had suspended the site ahead of its planned January launch. Dotcom unveiled his plans for Me.ga just last week, launching a homepage preview on the domain featuring a big ...