Archive for May, 2009

INNOVATION@INTEL: AIR QUALITY MEASURING & REPORTING

Friday, May 29, 2009 16:07

Intel researchers are developing compact, sensor-equipped mobile devices that can measure environmental data such as air quality and enable people to share that data and impact real-world environmental action. With nearly everyone now carrying mobile devices wherever they go, a huge opportunity exists ...

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CLIMATE CHANGE: GO ON, GUESS

Friday, May 29, 2009 7:24

Seat-of-the-pants estimates won’t be enough to cool the worldTHE human impact of climate change “is difficult to assess reliably”, say the authors of a new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum, a think-tank run by Kofi Annan, a former United Nations secretary-general, aided by a raft of eminent folk. But ...

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ARTIFACTS FROM THE FUTURE: CHEWING GUM

Friday, May 29, 2009 5:00

: Click on the thumbnails below for a closer look at gum from 2017. We'll continue to create a new artifact from the future in each upcoming issue of Wired magazine, but we'd like to see your prognostications, too. What do you think our world will look like in 10, ...

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TRIBAL DIVIDE ON KENYAN CAMPUS

Thursday, May 28, 2009 18:49

Kenya's ethnic divisions have become so entrenched, since a disputed election 18 months ago, that even student politics have been tainted by tribal rivalry as Will Ross discovered.I stumbled across this story on my way to ...

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL : TAKING ON THE SINS OF THE WORLD

Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:44

No state or system has a monopoly on curbing liberty, as Amnesty (perhaps a tad grudgingly) agrees FOR an organisation that has tried to broaden the definition of human rights, Amnesty International has a lot to say about violations of the old-fashioned sort. Its latest report on the state of ...

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THE DIGITAL AGE OF RIGHTS

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 17:05

The digitally deprived have rights too, says regular columnist Bill Thompson"President Sarkozy of France recently managed to get his Création et Internet law passed by the National Assembly, and if all goes well in the Senate then French internet users will ...

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INNOVATION@INTEL: PAVING THE WAY FOR MOORE’S LAW FOR DECADES TO COME

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 16:07

Future microprocessor chips will scale by adding new cores rather than increasing frequency. Programmers need an easier way of exploiting parallel processing than the current dominant parallel processing paradigms. As part of Intel's collaboration with UC Berkeley and Microsoft at the ...

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SOTOMAYOR’S CONFIRMATION

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 13:43

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings have begun. Senators are sure to ask her tough questions about statements and decisions she has made in the past....

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HD VIDEO

Friday, May 22, 2009 11:20

Here’s my first shot with the HD Video Camera, a Canon Vixia HD30. It was a classic software project – I got the camera, but I had to update to iMovie ‘09 so the file format would be recognized, and I had to update to Leopard to be able to ...

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BUYING FARMLAND ABROAD: OUTSOURCING’S THIRD WAVE

Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:58

Rich food importers are acquiring vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?EARLY this year, the king of Saudi Arabia held a ceremony to receive a batch of rice, part of the first crop to be produced under something called the King Abdullah initiative for ...

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INNOVATION@INTEL: PAVING THE WAY FOR MOORE’S LAW FOR DECADES TO COME

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 16:07

Hundreds of research institutions around the world are looking into emerging devices that could someday replace charge-based CMOS, which forms the basis for today's computer chips. There have been predictions that as CMOS transistors continue to shrink, a point ...

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PRESTIGIO SHIPS A NEW OFFICE PC WITH OS AND OFFICE SOFTWARE FOR ONLY 169 EURO END USER PRICE

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:00

Press-release: Prestigio began shipments to Europe, Middle East and Africa of a new PC for office use with a recommended end-user price of 169 € for entry level configuration (plus VAT).

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WHO IS JOHN WALL?

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:56

My wife’s friend is a teacher and she has a sign that says “You are special and unique, just like everyone else”. So for the record, I am unique as the only John J. M. Wall III and in fact, the M. has never really been made public and even ...

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INNOVATION@INTEL: ULTRA LOW VOLTAGE VIDEO ENCODING ACCELERATOR

Monday, May 18, 2009 17:07

In order to improve performance/watt in future processors, Intel researchers are exploring circuits to accelerate key algorithms. Researchers have developed an ultra low voltage special-purpose video encoding accelerator implemented in 65nm CMOS. This accelerator circuit could make video compression and encoding ...

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DEATH STAR CANTEEN

Saturday, May 16, 2009 18:23

I saw Eddie Izzard on The Graham Norton show and I couldn’t stop laughing about this for the next hour.  Aside from a few f-bombs it’s safe for work.

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INNOVATION@INTEL: UBIFIT GARDEN – TECHNOLOGY FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS

Thursday, May 14, 2009 17:07

Intel researchers are developing concept technology, "UbiFit Garden," which uses self-monitoring and positive feedback to encourage people to be more physically active. As a user performs physical activities, a garden blooms on the background screen of their mobile phone. Activities are detected automatically ...

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POPE BENEDICT: A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:27

The pope’s visit to the Holy Land adds another public-relations disaster to the string that already exists. Why should this be?TO UNDERSTAND the personal baggage that Pope Benedict XVI brought to the Holy Land this week, it is worth looking at his most accessible book, “Jesus of Nazareth”, published two ...

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THE VIEW FROM BRAZIL: AN UNRULY BUNCH

Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:27

How the church is faring in the world’s biggest Catholic countryTHOUGH Pope Benedict’s tenure has not had much effect on Catholicism in Brazil so far, it has entrenched an old conflict. The previous pope’s reign saw a “decapitation of the progressive parts of the church in Latin America and particularly ...

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INSIDE BASEBALL FOR EVERYTHING

Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:16

SugarCRM is an open source CRM system, kind of a David to Salesforce.com’s Goliath. It’s been doing very well, but there was a surprise last week as the Co-Founder and CEO stepped down. Check out this post: Never before has news been gathered and spread so fast. Is it any wonder ...

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ASBIS BULGARIA GETS MICROSOFT RIGHTS

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 0:00

Press-release: ASBIS has signed an OEM Distributor Channel Agreement with Microsoft. The new agreement licenses ASBIS to distribute Microsoft software products to channel partners in Bulgaria.

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