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Snapping Up Processors – A Deeper Look
Single-core versus dual-core used to be the big debate. As expected, we saw a fairly substantial jump in day-to-day activities when we went from one to two cores. People thought we’d see the same kinds of improvements going f...
THE NEXT STEP IN INTERNET EVOLUTION : Web 3.0
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, videos: unlock our data and refram...
Scare the cows, wake the farmers
Energy weapons; can they match up to the weapons of science fiction? The notion of using energy as a weapon of war dates back at least as far as the ancient Greeks. Archimedes purportedly used a “heat ray”, in which ...
Robot Ethics: Whats moral gotta do with machines
Thirty years ago, few people envisioned just how completely computers would be integrated into our everyday lives; today, they’re everywhere. In Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics, Patrick Lin ...
