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Take Control with Twitter Lists
I started using lists, but then I stopped. Now I’m back at it again, and will start using them to keep up with the flood of tweets. Really great tips and will be definitely checking out Tweetdeck. More columns means better use of my screen real estate.
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Microsoft Office applications barely used by many employees, new study shows – Techworld.com
After stripping out unnecessary licensing Office licenses, organisations were left with a hybrid environment, part cloud, part desktop Office. via Microsoft Office applications barely used by many employees, new study shows – Techworld.com. The Center IT outfit I work for is dumping as much on premise Exchange Mailbox hosting as it can. However we are…
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Amazon joins other web giants trying to design its own chips — Tech News and Analysis
The looming introduction of a 64-bit ARM-based server core (production 64-bit ARM server chips are expected from a variety of vendors later this year) also changes the economics of developing a server chip. While Moorhead believes building your own core is a multihundred million dollar process, Andrew Feldman, the corporate vice president and general manager…
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Google Glass’ Lead Electrical Engineer Adrian Wong Defects To Oculus
Interesting news to hear this Google Glass engineer is jumping ship to join Oculus. Now that is very interesting. I wouldn’t blame anyone who would join up with Oculus, I think it will have a much more outrageously creative future over the lighter weight wearable stuff from Google.
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PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone
Here’s my latest DIY project, a smartphone based on a Raspberry Pi. It’s called – wait for it – the PiPhone. It makes use an Adafruit touchscreen interface and a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module to make phone calls. via PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone. Dave Hunt doesn’t just do photography, he’s a Maker through and…
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Report: NSA intercepts US-made servers heading overseas to install surveillance hooks
Originally posted on Gigaom: According to NSA expert and former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide, the NSA has intercepted servers and routers from U.S. manufacturers in the delivery process in order to install tracking gear. In a Guardian excerpt from the book, which comes out tomorrow, Greenwald highlighted a June…
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Google Glass teardown puts rock-bottom price on hardware • The Register
A teardown report on Google Glass is raising eyebrows over suggestions that the augmented reality headset costs as little as $80 to produce. via Google Glass teardown puts rock-bottom price on hardware • The Register. One more reason to not be a Glasshole is you don’t want to be a sucker. Given what the Oculus…
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Epson Moverio BT-200 AR Glasses In Person, Hands On
Even Moverio’s less powerful (compared to VR displays) head tracking would make something like Google Glass overheat, McCracken said, which is why Glass input is primarily voice command or a physical touch. McCracken, who has developed for Glass, said that more advanced uses can only be accomplished with something more powerful. via Epson Moverio BT-200…
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The Neurogrid – What It Is and What It Is Not
More info on the Neurogrid massively parallel computer. Comparing it to other AI experiments in modeling individual neurons is apt. I compare it to Danny Hillis’s The Connection Machine (TMC) which used ~65k individual 1 bit processors to model neurons. It was a great idea, and experiment, but it never quite got very far into…
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Corning Announces Availability of USB 3.Optical Cables
Currently available in lengths of 10 meters, Corning will also be releasing USB 3.Optical cables of 15 and 30 meters later this year. These cables can be purchased online at Amazon and Accu-Tech. via Corning Announces Availability of USB 3.Optical Cables. As I’ve had to deal with using webcams stretched across very long distances in…
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