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Posted by Techno-News Blog 6 days 12 hours ago.
by Tim Maly, Technology Review
I’d like to sneak up on the question of 3-D printing by way of boring old 2-D printing. Typography used to be heavy industry. The companies that make typefaces are still called foundries because there was a time when l...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 12 hours ago.
By: Nathan Eddy, eWeek
A new rule imposed by Twitter that would see certain comments from particular countries censored is drawing the ire of many Twitter users. Twitter has said it could block a Tweet in a country where what was being said is illegal—i...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 12 hours ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Several U.S. senators Jan. 26 fired off a bipartisan letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more information about the search engine provider’s revised privacy policy. Google Jan. 24 announced that it will aggregate 60 ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 12 hours ago.
By: Frank Ohlhorst, eWeek
Improvements to flash memory technology may spell the end for spinning media as the primary storage mechanism for enterprise tier 1 storage. When it comes to performance, flash-based memory has always been the undisputed king. Ho...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 1 day ago.
By Tim Weber, BBC News
The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group. Driving the spurt from $2.3tn (£1.5tn) to $4.2tn (£2.7tn) will be the rapid rise of mobile internet access. The study,...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 1 day ago.
by the BBC
Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis. In its blog, Twitter said it could “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country”. But it said the remov...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 1 day ago.
by the BBC
Facebook will begin the process of becoming a publicly-listed company this week, valuing the social networking site at between $75bn (£48bn) and $100bn, reports suggest. The company plans to file papers with the US financial watchdog on Wednes...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
By Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google risked drawing the ire of privacy pundits and federal regulators Jan. 24 with its augmented privacy policies. The practices, which kick-in March 1, call for a single, unified privacy policy to preside over 60 of Google’...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google continued its wholesale integration of Google+ with its existing applications, launching Google Earth 6.2 with the capability to let users share their virtual images with their contacts on the social network. Google Earth 6...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
Jonathan Angel, eWeek
America’s first public “WhiteFi” network, leveraging spectrum previously occupied by analog TV channels, has been launched in North Carolina. Running at 1.5 to 3.1 MB/sec., the service will initially be used mostly ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
By Don Reisinger, eWeek
The time has come once again to think seriously about Apple’s iPad. Only this time, the focus isn’t on the iPad 2 but on Apple’s iPad 3. That tablet, which is rumored to be launching in March or April, could very well be a gr...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
By: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek
Despite all the fresh new ideas on display for the Apple world from exuberant third-party companies, it matters quite a bit that the Apple mothership isn’t here with her children. For the third consecutive year since t...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
by KOSU
Thrun’s colleague Andrew Ng taught a free, online machine learning class that ultimately attracted more than 100,000 students. When I ask Ng how Stanford’s administration reacted to their proposition, he’s silent for a second. “Oh boy,” ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek
The unveiled rules for the EU’s data privacy law revamp includes 24-hour breach notification, appointing a data protection officer and required user consent for online data access. The European Commission on Jan. 25 unve...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek
Instead of just launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones. The hacker group Anonymous recently managed ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
By: Wayne Rash, eWeek
The U.S. Trade Representative apparently negotiated in secret a new intellectual property treaty with restrictions far more onerous than SOPA or PIPA to avoid a congressional review and public objections. Imagine, if you will, SOPA w...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
By Courtney Humphries, Technology Review
Optogenetics has been hailed as a breakthrough in biomedical science—it promises to use light to precisely control cells in the brain to manipulate behavior, model disease processes, or even someday to deliver tr...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
by KFC, Technology Review
The behaviour and function of proteins is largely determined by their shape. So one of the great ongoing quests in biology is to understand and model the structure of proteins. That’s a tricky task. Biologists currently do ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
By Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
A nine-nanometer device shows that nanotubes could be a viable alternative to silicon as electronics get even tinier. The smallest carbon-nanotube transistor ever made, a nine-nanometer device, performs better than ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
by Clint Boulton, eWeek
Where Google’s accounting gets fuzzy is in user engagement, or how many people are actively logging into Google+ to post status updates and share links, photos and videos. That’s the metric social media experts are most...
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