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IBM Teams Up With ARM for 14-nm Processing – “Monday IBM announced a partnership with UK chip developer ARM to develop 14-nm chip processing technology. The news confirms the continuation of an alliance between both parties that launched back in 2008 with an overall goal to refine SoC density, routability, manufacturability, power consumption and performance….”
520-day flight simulation nears ‘landing’ on Mars – “After 233 days in a locked steel capsule, six researchers on a 520-day mock flight to Mars are all feeling strong and ready to “land” on the Red Planet, the mission director said Friday….”
Internet Armageddon all my fault: Google chief – “The “father of the internet” says the world is going to run out of internet addresses “within weeks” – and it will be all his fault….”
WHY IS ERIC SCHMIDT STEPPING DOWN AT GOOGLE? – “Was Eric Schmidt pushed or did he jump? Both. According to close advisors, the Google C.E.O. was upset a year ago when co-founder Larry Page sided with his founding partner, Sergey Brin, to withdraw censored searches from China. Schmidt did not hide his belief that Google should stay in the world’s largest consumer marketplace….”
Google to Launch Groupon Competitor – “Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, the search giant’s Groupon competitor, Mashable has learned. We have the documents to prove it. One of our sources has sent us a confidential fact sheet straight from the Googleplex about the company’s new group buying service. “Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and clientele find great deals in their area through a daily email,” the fact sheet says….”
Chinese stealth fighter jet may use US technology – “China may have bought parts of US F-117 Nighthawk shot down over Serbia in 1999, say experts…”
Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android – “Sometimes the sheer wrongness of what is posted on the web leaves us speechless. Especially when it’s picked up and repeated as gospel by otherwise reputable sites like Engadget. “Google copied Oracle’s Java code, pasted in a new license, and shipped it,” they reported this morning….”
The end of the net as we know it – “ISPs are threatening to cripple websites that don’t pay them first. Barry Collins fears a disastrous end to net neutrality…” See also: Verizon challenges FCC rules on net neutrality
Laser Propulsion Could Beam Rockets into Space – “Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed by some researchers could change that vision….”
My experiences as a female software engineer – “It’s no secret that females in Computer Science, both in academia and industry, are scarce. While the percentage of females in other male-dominated fields has been on the rise, that of females majoring in computer science has been on a downward spiral in the past few decades, currently sitting at about 12% to 20%. When I was at Princeton, it was on the lower end, with the class of 2007 having 2 women out of about 20, and the class of 2008 having about 5 out of 50. I don’t claim to know why the numbers are so low, though I think much of it has to do with the culture of Computer Science and the type of people that go into the field. I thought I’d share some of my experiences both in school and in industry….”
Earth may soon have a second sun – “Earth may soon have a second sunThe red supergiant star Betelgeuse is getting ready to go supernova, and when it does Earth will have a front-row seat. The explosion will be so bright that Earth will briefly seem to have two suns in the sky….”
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Firms to buy 10 million tablets in 2011: Deloitte – “Companies will buy more than 10 million tablet computers this year, consultancy Deloitte said on Tuesday supporting recent research from Gartner which sees the global market for Apple’s iPad, rising to 55 million devices this year from 19.5 million in 2010….”
Learn to Program with Hackety Hack – “Hackety Hack is an interactive Ruby tutorial for the absolute beginner. It teaches the basics of programming from the ground up – no previous experience necessary. It’s an open source desktop application and is available for Windows, OSX and Linux….”
Lazy Teenage Superheroes: $300 short superhero movie – “Lazy Teenage Superheroes is an extremely funny, extremely well-executed 13-minute rude little superhero movie, made by Michael Ashton for a mere $300. It’s full of cussin’…”
The 10 Most Profitable Companies Over 2011 – “What U.S. companies will earn the highest profits in 2011? We looked at the consensus profit estimates for America’s largest corporations based on Bloomberg data and estimates from more than 50 analysts. Here is the list, which is dominated by oil, finance and technology companies. In the margin, we also think through some of the opportunities and challenges facing the most profitable companies in the world…”
8 Companies That Shouldn’t Make a Tablet – “With AOL’s acquisitions, the company has quietly reinvented itself as a web-publishing powerhouse. Why not create a special AOL tablet for all the AOL faithful? Oh, because it would be a terrible idea to divert the company’s attention on a needless hardware endeavor. (But if it is going to try, we’d love to see AOL bundle its tablet with every magazine and newspaper like the ubiquitous AOL CDs of yesteryear)….”
The World is sinking: Dubai islands ‘falling into the sea’ – “The islands were intended as the ultimate luxury possession, even for Dubai. But the World, the ambitiously-constructed archipelago of islands shaped like the countries of the globe, is sinking back into the sea, according to evidence cited before a property tribunal….”
How To Start Up U.S. Job Growth: Nurture Startups – “Last year, the Kauffman Foundation noted that virtually all U.S. net job creation since 1980 has come from companies less than five years old. From 1977 to 2005, existing companies were actually job destroyers, losing 1 million net jobs per year; in contrast, new businesses added an average of 3 million jobs annually. The message seems simple: if we are serious about addressing the unemployment crisis, we need to fund and nurture new company formation….” See also: Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation
In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism – “We venture to the very heart of the hell that is Scandinavian socialism—and find out that it’s not so bad. Pricey, yes, but a good place to start and run a company. What exactly does that suggest about the link between taxes and entrepreneurship?”
The Phantom 15 Million – “Taming unemployment starts with solving the mystery of the jobs that were supposed to have been created in the past 10 years but weren’t…”
Poll Responses on How to Cut the Deficit – “Results of a New York Times/CBS News poll about the federal budget deficit….”
Pepsi Reduces Landfill Waste by 88% in Two Years, While Growing 15% – “Leave aside for the moment the health effects of Pepsi’s products, and your rightful concerns about highly-processed food in general, while reading how much Pepsi has done to reduce its environmental impact… Last Friday PepsiCo issued an update on its goals of sending no waste to landfills by 2020, being entirely fossil fuel free by 2023, and making all of its packaging recyclable or biodegradable….”
Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion – “Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what’s useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools — like virtual autopsies — for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery….”
Apple’s Making It Impossible To Open Up Your iPhone By Secretly Swapping Its Screws – “Apple’s products are notoriously difficult to open and repair—surprise, they want you to buy new stuff!—but this is especially ridiculous. During repairs, they’re replacing the iPhone 4′s Philips screws with weird new ones for which no screwdriver exists….”
“EVOLUTION” PC BY EDITOR22 – “Nate George (aka Editor22) is no stranger to the blog, his NEMESIS PC design won the Mnpctech/bit-tech sketch-up contest last year. The casual viewer would never notice that Evolution was fabricated entirely by hand….”
BMW gets Nokia C7 remote control, James Bond can eat his heart out (video) – “At CES and the NAIAS in Detroit this year we saw ever more powerful smartphone integration, but nothing like this….”
At Least for the Next Ten Years, “Peak Lithium” is Nonsense – “At the Lithium Supply and Markets conference in Toronto, analysts make clear that until 2020 there will literally be more than enough of the element to go around…”
FAA warns of ongoing GPS issues in southeastern US due to Defense Department ‘tests’ – “Don’t panic, but anyone planning on using GPS in the southeastern US for the next month or so will likely want to make sure they have a fallback option….”
Extra Credits: Piracy – “This week, we dive headfirst into the controversies of video game piracy…”
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