Catching Up (9/15)
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Remembering a Relationship, One Chat at a Time - Health
Clark and I met on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30, 2007. I don’t know exactly when we first said I love you, but the first email exchange containing the phrase, which he casually includes before signing off, is dated October 3 of that year. Nearly four years later, I sometimes type his email address in the search box in my Gmail.
When Kickstarter Goes Wrong: Were 419 Backers Almost Taken for a $27,637 Ride?
By Adrianne Jeffries 9/15/11 4:49pm Share this: About a month ago, there was a $2,000 Kickstarter project called the Tech Sync Power System , a system for controlling home lights from mobile devices over a wifi connection. The project creator, registered as Steven Washington from Chesapeake, VA, said he was working on a team of six people and promised to ship mobile apps and hardware to backers who contributed as little as $20.
A New and Improved Moore's Law
Researchers have, for the first time, shown that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every 18 months. The conclusion, backed up by six decades of data, mirrors Moore’s law, the observation from Intel founder Gordon Moore that computer processing power doubles about every 18 months. But the power-consumption trend might have even greater relevance than Moore’s law as battery-powered devices—phones, tablets, and sensors—proliferate.
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Google Reports Progress in Digital Books Settlement Talks
Data scientist: The hot new gig in tech
Companies that want to make sense of all their bits and bytes are hiring so-called data scientists - if they can find any.
The Agonies of Picking a Product Name
Picking a product name is all agony and no ecstasy. It’s also a giant time-slurping vortex. And in the end, it kind of doesn’t matter.
Netflix stock plunges after cutting subscriber outlook - Sep. 15
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Netflix subscribers threatened to flee in droves when the company whacked them with a surprise price hike, which kicked in this month.Your phone is only going to get faster and better in the future, according to Qualcomm, as it's outlined the next step for its Snapdragon processor at its Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul. The company’s processors, which power the majority of today’s smartphones from HTC to BlackBerry and beyond, will boast even higher speeds, better graphics, and greater connectivity in the near future, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon told those gathered. In numbers terms that means a single, dual, or quad-core chip with speeds of 2.5GHz, almost double of what is currently available on the market.
Qualcomm details next-gen 2.5GHz Snapdragon processors
News.me finally gets its wings — but can it fly?
As the flow of information from social networks and other digital sources like Twitter continues to increase, the need to have that river of data filtered and “curated” also increases. That has produced a growing crop of curation and aggregation services and apps, including one called News.me , which started as a side project within the New York Times and then became part of the Betaworks startup incubator run by John Borthwick in New York.
September 15, 2011, 1:26 PM — Hactivist group Anonymous announced it will launch a new weapon on Saturday to replace the Low Orbit Ion Cannon application it uses to automate distributed denial of service attacks.
Anonymous to launch more effective site-attack tool Saturday, when it occupies Wall Street