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Wired.com. Google and Netflix Make Land Grab On Edge Of Internet. Behind the scenes, there’s a big change happening on internet.

Google and Netflix Make Land Grab On Edge Of Internet

It’s something that’s mostly hidden from web surfers, but it’s becoming critical to big internet companies such as Google and Netflix. They’re moving servers — usually free of charge — next to the service providers’ networking gear so that people trying to watch a popular YouTube video don’t have to send traffic across the network to servers back to the website’s data center. Net: the Edge of Science. The Edge of Science This is the edge of science, the edge where research meets real life and where solid cliffs of data meet oceans of unanswered questions.

Net: the Edge of Science

This is a place where you can examine and talk about some of the newest ideas in science. New Scientist magazine's Planet Science website chose Transaction Net as its Site of the Day for September 4th, 1996. Can you add a missing link? Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing–and will change–human beings in fundamental ways. Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence.