Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Life on the GDrive: Cloud me up, Scotty!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Google is at it again! The Internet giant is trying to render PCs obsolete, as evidenced by this recent article on The Observer: The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive. Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be ...

Thought Identification

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

It's not called mind reading, folks. A couple of neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon are showing us how, in the not-so-distant future, computers will be able to know precisely what's on our minds. YouTube video after the break: Ring any bells? That's right. EPOC enhanced! (that is, of course, if we ...

Data centers on wheels

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

After we all heard Google's incredible plans to take its data centers offshore, many speculated it was only a matter of time before Amazon, Microsoft and IBM (the big cloud players -- cloud-ies?) came up with their own futuristic plans in order to reduce the tremendous costs that operating massive ...

Obama and Technology

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Now that we're all getting used to the idea that Barack Obama is president-elect, all the promises he made during the campaign will surely be scrutinized and checked up on intensely during the next few weeks. From a technology and science standpoint, Mr. Obama presented some very interesting policies and ...

Technology and Poverty

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The Poor Children Source: job_earth's photo stream The worldwide financial crisis has been receiving constant press coverage during the past two months or so. The occasion could not be more opportune for us to join the thousands and thousands of blogs that will bring attention to the Blog Action Day 2008. This ...