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Photo Inside a Facebook data center. While few companies now handle Facebook-level computation, expectations are for huge loads to become commonplace at many companies.Credit Alan Brandt/Facebook, via Associated Press Facebook’s plan to change big computing is moving fast and is attracting more companies to its plans. The company announced on Tuesday that it would give…
There was a time when the idea of Netflix releasing a program on a weekly basis seemed strange, with its rollout of “Better Call Saul” in the U.K. But after a bleary eyed, snowy, week with “House of Cards” that’s changed. Hearing that Netflix will release episodes of “Between,” a new Canadian drama starring Jeanette McCurdy, concurrently with its broadcast dates…
Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes. The lawsuit argues that this broad surveillance, revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, violates the First Amendment by chilling speech and the open exchange…
Photo CC-BY Fortune Live Media. We haven’t met, but our firm is asked about you in almost every interview we do about diversity in tech. When asked how you have risen through the ranks of tech and the rest of us haven’t, our answer is usually “Yes, a few women have succeeded, but holding them up…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Years ago, when Steve Jobs decided that mice needed only one button, Apple had a problem. While Mac users were busy clicking on things all over the screen, PCs added a second button, the right click, in order add a second layer of interaction, a feature that eventually forced Cupertino’s hand…
In our project we focus on a single street in NYC: Broadway. Like a spine in a human body, Broadway runs through the middle of Manhattan Island curving along its way. We wanted to include a slightly wider area than the street itself so we can capture also the activities nearby. To define this area,…
SHARING BUTTONS CONTENT OF THE POST Unindexed is an online community that anyone can contribute to; it runs a back-end process that continuously scours Google for signs that it has been indexed, and securely erases itself once it discovers evidence of same. It’s a cute art project (as opposed to a cute engineering project, which…
Secretary of the Navy John Lehman (right) promotes Grace Hopper to the rank of commodore in a ceremony at the White House with President Ronald Reagan. Pete Souza/Courtesy of ESPN Films hide caption itoggle caption Pete Souza/Courtesy of ESPN Films Secretary of the Navy John Lehman (right) promotes Grace Hopper to the rank of commodore…
Let’s see what happens when we shrink the filter bubble. Every person you follow or block, every app you use, you’re making a trade-off, the hope that this new stream of information will give you exactly what you need in exchange for closing yourself off a little more from the rest of the world. There…
The MP3, the file type of most songs you listen to on a computer, is compressed. Part of the reason people love vinyl records so much (even though they don’t necessarily sound “better” than digital formats), is that they are closer in format to the way you would actually hear a song if you were standing…