The ‘edge’ refers to computing infrastructure that exists close to the origin sources of data. It is distributed IT architecture and infrastructure where data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source as possible…… Read More ›
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6 tech companies that aren’t evil
I’ll just say this up front. If you’re trying to ditch the prevailing technologies in favor of those that are more secure and less exploitative, you’ll have to accept a level of inconvenience. Convenience is a powerful motivator to keep… Read More ›
Decriminalization: A Love Story
A general practitioner can get to know his community of patients fairly intimately in a small town. When he first arrived in Olhão, it didn’t take long for Pereira to steep in the details of people’s lives, their families, and… Read More ›
A child genius raised in poverty…
One night in the summer of 1997, Georgia decided to surprise Jasmine with the next day’s activity. While driving around, she pretended they were lost. After Jasmine fell asleep, Georgia headed to the campus of Stanford University, 35 miles south… Read More ›
What is Moore’s Law Anyway?
Everyone knows Moore’s Law, right? Computers will double in performance every 2 years, or 18 months in some versions? And everyone claims it’s been remarkably consistent and some even claim that it’s Moore’s Law the causes computers to double in… Read More ›
Selling Mattresses
I couldn’t know it then, but the outcome of that battle would influence the purchase decisions of many thousands, if not millions, of people seeking a good night’s sleep. It would also reveal just how thoroughly the internet and the… Read More ›
Our culture is becoming always on
On the subject of information overload– I suspect part of it is the immediacy of new information, whether that information is world events or text or email. And the need/desire to keep up means that there is less time for… Read More ›
Information overload / emotional underload
I have been pondering what life was like some time ago for some reason recently and it occurred to me that the amount of information we take in now could be having a negative effect on the time we have… Read More ›
One person’s history of Twitter
This was my first look at Twitter, or twttr, as it was annoyingly called then. I was right about the logo and wrong about the service. It wasn’t stupid, it was just hard to explain. So Noah showed it to… Read More ›
A life on the line
On the other end of the line, Cecilia lay crumpled, shot in the head by her drunken boyfriend, who immediately turned the gun on himself. The last call of her life was the eighth she’d made to 911 in a… Read More ›
