technology
- Todd Hoff: How Will Memristors Change Everything?
- Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale
- 2010-07-06 to bestof, breakthrough, future, innovation, memristor, technology by soobrosa
- Julia Ioffe: Roulette Russian
- The teen-ager behind Chatroulette.
- 2010-06-28 to bestof, media, product, psychology, technology by soobrosa
- Joe Weinman: Lazy, Hazy, Crazy - The 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics
- Lazy, as in minimizing physical, cognitive, emotional and real dollar costs; hazy, as in using heuristics or rules of thumb rather than precise calculations; and crazy, or, as MIT’s Dan Ariely says in his book of the same name, “Predictably Irrational
- 2010-06-28 to bestof, business, it, product, psychology, technology by soobrosa
- Justin Lahart: Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
- Maybe it's time to bring my old white board out of retirement, and rethink some of those old projects.
- 2010-06-24 to bestof, business, diy, society, technology by soobrosa
- Prevelakis-Spinellis: The Athens Affair
- How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever.
- 2010-06-15 to bestof, espionage, greece, hacking, mobile, story, technology, vodafone, wiretapping by soobrosa
- Sir Clive Sinclair: "I don't use a computer at all"
- The entrepreneur and innovator tells about inspiration, determination and why he doesn't do email.
- 2010-05-03 to bestof, portrait, profile, technology, uk by soobrosa
- Behind the scenes with the men who deploy airstrikes
- Strapped to his chest, Rosner carries a handheld video player. The device reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft. Rosner can see everything a pilot sees, from the pilot's perspective.
- 2010-05-03 to bestof, military, technology, wired by lipi
- Drone pilots have a front-row seat on war, from half a world away
- In a low, tan building in Nevada, Air Force personnel sit in padded chairs and control aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan. They are 7,500 miles away, yet feel more affected by war than ever.
- 2010-02-21 to bestof, drone, military, psychology, technology, war by lipi
- A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook
- The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were born seems normal, anything that is developed before we turn 35 is exciting, and whatever comes after that is treated with suspicion.
- 2010-02-17 to oldfarts, slate, technology by lipi
- Sally Singer: Machine Dreams
- At 34, Marissa Mayer is possibly the world's most poised and powerful information guru. What makes this woman click?
- 2010-01-02 to bestof, business, portrait, profile, technology by soobrosa
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