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MIT Puts 36-Core Internet on a Chip | EE Times
Today many different interconnection topologies are used for multicore chips. For as few as eight cores direct bus connections can be made — cores taking turns using the same bus. MIT’s 36-core processors, on the other hand, are connected by an on-chip mesh network reminiscent of Intel’s 2007 Teraflop Research Chip — code-named Polaris —…
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UK Startup Blippar Confirms It has Acquired AR Pioneer Layar | TechCrunch
The acquisition makes Blippar one of the largest AR players globally, giving it a powerful positioning in the AR and visual browsing space, which may help its adoption in the mass consumer space where AR has tended to languish. via UK Startup Blippar Confirms It has Acquired AR Pioneer Layar | TechCrunch. Layar was definitely…
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Doug Englebart’s Grocery List
Originally posted on Hapgood: If you’ve watched the Mother of All Demos, you know that one of the aha! moments of it is when Englebart pulls out his grocery list. The idea is pretty simple –if you put your grocery list into a computer instead of on a notepad, you could sort it, edit, clone…
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Why Microsoft is building programmable chips that specialize in search — Tech News and Analysis
SUMMARY: Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren’t centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from Altera. via Why Microsoft is building programmable chips that specialize in search — Tech News and Analysis. FPGAs for the win, at least for…
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Supercapacitors are slowly emerging as novel tech for electric vehicles
Originally posted on Gigaom: A couple years ago Tesla CEO Elon Musk offhandedly said that he thought it could be capacitors — rather than batteries — that might be the energy storage tech to deliver an important breakthrough for electric transportation. Tesla cars, of course, use lithium ion batteries for storing energy and providing power…
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With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer – Businessweek
If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break. Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine. via With ‘The Machine,’…
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Apple Brings Better Discussion, iPad Course Creation To iTunes U
I manage iTunes U at the University where I work. I’m glad to know Apple keeps on working on it, adding features and fixing bugs. It now seems even more useful as a lightweight Course Management System. Had they tried doing this from the earliest days, it’s likely they could have gained some loyal fan…
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AnandTech | The Intel SSD DC P3700 Review Part 2: NVMe on Client Workloads
Although Intel’s SSD DC P3700 is clearly targeted at the enterprise, the drive will be priced quite aggressively at $3/GB. Furthermore, Intel will be using the same controller and firmware architecture in two other, lower cost derivatives (P3500/P3600). In light of Intel’s positioning of the P3xxx family, a number of you asked for us to…
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No, The New Gmail API Is Not Killing IMAP
Gmail API, even just the name harkens back to 1991 era when Microsoft first bought out Consumer Softwares (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers_Software) and spun up it’s own mail server: Microsoft Mail for PC Networking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mail). The underlying architecture was the almighty MAPI which eventually got all the corporate buyers and accounts hooked on Exchange Mail with MS Outlook…
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Things in the era of dematerialization
Fully agree, after the number of moves I went through prior to moving in with my girlfriend, I had pared down quite a bit. All my “stuff” could fit into my car. Which is exactly as it should be. If it can fit in your car, then you truly own it, it is YOURS. Jon…
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