Internet Politics. The Data-Collecting Company That Wants to Give Earth a "Nervous System" Computer Programs Can Be as Biased as Humans. A Private High-Speed Network Will Help Researchers Do Better Science. Elon Musk's Space Internet Plan Is Moving Forward. Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly files with the FCC to offer Web access worldwide via satellite : Futurology.
This comment already existed. How Broken Hyperlinks Are Screwing Up Science. TED Talks - What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE Are Hiding From The World - The Filter Bubble. Crowdsourcing. Scientists urge governments to turn old TV frequencies into free “super WiFi” Biometrics and wearables are making their way into the workplace as employers modernise access control and time-keeping.
But with no legal framework in place, does this trend benefit businesses or violate employees’ rights? The pressures facing businesses today are enormous. The economic crisis, competition in the marketplace and the continued rise of the data-driven culture mean employees are expected to work smarter and faster than ever before. Against this backdrop, it is little wonder that technology that promises to help people do just that is generating excitement in boardrooms across the world. From Coca Cola to Apple and hundreds of companies in between, biometric and wearable technology is being explored to make businesses run quicker, safer and in a more cost effective way.
Every State Should Make the Bold Internet Investment New York Just Did. Turkish Shepherds Use "Plug-and-Play Donkeys" To Get Online. "Fast Company"'s web site claims: The devices, marketed by the Turkish solar panel company Ser-Gün as a "plug-and-play donkey," produce between five and seven kilowatts of electricity, enough to charge many laptops.
That can't be right. Solar flux at high noon on the equator under perfect conditions is a kilowatt per square meter. Even at 25% efficiency, coming up with 5 kilowatts would require 20 square meters of panels. Per day? Google is building 180 satellites to spread internet access worldwide. Google just bought a satellite company for $500 million. Is The Internet Really Up 24 Hours A Day? Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee : Shots - Health News. Hide captionYou could do all that brain work.
Or you could make it up. iStockphoto.com Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number. That's the conclusion of an elaborate sting carried out by Science, a leading mainline journal. The result should trouble doctors, patients, policymakers and anyone who has a stake in the integrity of science (and who doesn't?). The business model of these "predatory publishers" is a scientific version of those phishes from Nigerians who want help transferring a few million dollars into your bank account. To find out just how common predatory publishing is, Science contributor John Bohannon sent a deliberately faked research article 305 times to online journals. "This sting operation," Bohannan writes, reveals "the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing.
" Carna Botnet. Data collection[edit] It was compiled into a gif portrait to display Internet use around the world over the course of 24 hours.
The data gathered included only the IPv4 address space and not the IPv6 address space.[3][4] The Carna Botnet creator believes that with a growing number of IPv6 hosts on the Internet, 2012 may have been the last time a census like this was possible.[5] Results[edit] Of the 4.3 billion possible IPv4 addresses, Carna Botnet found a total of 1.3 billion addresses in use, including 141 million that were behind a firewall and 729 million that returned reverse domain name system records. An earlier first Internet census by the USDHS LANDER-study had counted 187 million visible Internet hosts in 2006.[7][8] Number of hosts by top level domain[edit] Amongst other, Carna Botnet counted the number of hosts with reverse DNS names observed from May to October 2012. Complex Systems.
Robots can now collaborate over their very own Internet. If Robots are able to access all the data found in databases around the world (including the internet) then either there will require a massive reworking of databases or the Robots will have hours upon hours of time rummaging through useless information with incredibly complex queries.
The world's databases would all need to be similarly constructed, and every single one available will have to be reformatted to BCNF or 4NF, which would take years! Old databases would most likely need to be entirely re-designed. Splendid idea, but not practical for Robots to efficiently access information from the internet, at least not soon.
The limitations of the robots' "internet" should be limited to their own, and ours should be kept separate as well. Robots to get their own internet. 9 February 2011Last updated at 10:54 By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News RoboEarth could help robots get to work in novel environments much more quickly Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia.
European scientists have embarked on a project to let robots share and store what they discover about the world. General Electric Expands Internet of Things to More Industrial Equipment. The Internet of Things — a network that connects devices, from sneakers to massive industrial oil- and gas-drilling equipment, and runs the information they provide through big data-analyzing software — has been over-promised and under-delivered.
Yet tech companies are still lumbering toward such a network. General Electric recently took a big step, more than doubling the vertically-specialized hardware/software packages it offers to connect machines and interpret their data. The company hopes to make its mark by significantly reducing the amount of “unplanned downtime” that industrial equipment undergoes, thereby bringing about economic benefits. Targeting industries including oil and gas, wind power, airlines, railroads and health care, the company figures that even if it drives its clients’ costs down by 1 percent, the effects will be more than enough to offset the cost of its products and probably enough for the companies to pass some savings on to consumers.