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David Howard

ZTE Open running Firefox OS is now on sale exclusively on eBay for £60 (Wired... - 0 views

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    ZTE Open running Firefox OS is now on sale exclusively on eBay for £60 (Wired UK)
Roland Gesthuizen

From Breaking Bad to Lost: The Quality of 13 Famous TV Shows, Charted Over Time | Wired... - 0 views

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    ""Graph TV," the latest project by data viz virtuoso Kevin Wu, lets you visualize IMDb's massive database of user ratings. Type in the name of a show and the site gamely spits out a graph of every episode, helpfully color coding seasons and drawing a linear regression line for each. No longer will your TV arguments be founded solely on vague recollections and long-held grudges. This is cold hard data."
Mark Kelly

Amazon Cloud Goes Down Again, Breaks Foursquare and Others | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com - 0 views

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    The cloud is cool. But it's not always there. That's what some Amazon customers learned today after another outage on Amazon's cloud computing platform knocked off several popular websites offline. Foursquare said the failure kept it and other services from working for "about 2 hours," according to an email from spokeswoman Erin Gleason.
Roland Gesthuizen

A Tag With Killer UX That Finds Lost Keys and Pets | Design | WIRED - 0 views

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    "Keys hiding in couch cushions. Wayward wallets causing panic. It's estimated that each of us will spend six months of our lives looking for things we've lost. San Diego startup XY wants to make locating lost items as easy as Googling for directions. "
Roland Gesthuizen

900 Years of Tree Diagrams, the Most Important Data Viz Tool in History | Design | WIRED - 0 views

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    "A new book by designer Manuel Lima, however, shows that data viz's roots go much deeper-some 900 years, at the very least. And calling them "roots" is very much appropriate. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center | Enterprise | WIRED - 0 views

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    "If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age - a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest-you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it's the home of a Google data center."
David Howard

Computer Virus Stalls an F1 Team's Car Testing | Autopia | Wired.com - 0 views

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    On the first day of the second Formula One preseason test, the Marussia team saw its 2014 car complete only three laps around the track because some witless oaf in the team garage downloaded a "Trojan-type virus" onto its computer system. Whoops.
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    On the first day of the second Formula One preseason test, the Marussia team saw its 2014 car complete only three laps around the track because some witless oaf in the team garage downloaded a "Trojan-type virus" onto its computer system. Whoops.
Roland Gesthuizen

The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose | WIRED - 0 views

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    "It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it's possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware."
Jarrod Robinson

Microsoft's Cloud Goes Dark Across the Globe - 1 views

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    Microsoft's Cloud Goes Dark Across the Globe
Mark Kelly

HP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory 'by 2014' - 0 views

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    HP is two and half years away from offering hardware that stores data with memristors, a new breed of electrical building-block that could lead to servers and other devices that are far more efficient than today's machines, according to report citing one of the technology's inventors.
Mark Kelly

Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox - 0 views

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    Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction.
Mark Kelly

Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay - 0 views

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    People in denial about the cloud.
Mark Kelly

Your Favorite Restaurant's Secret Ingredient: Data, and Lots of It - 0 views

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    With the food business thriving again in the midst of America's economic upswing - consistently claiming a whopping 4 percent of GDP -- some of the nation's top eateries are quietly embracing data mining to eke out profit in a tough economy.
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