Category Archives: General

Linkdump: Nathan Myhrvold Strikes Again, Amazon’s Hollywood Dreams and Anti-Hydrogen

November 19, 2010 – 1:08 am

So once upon a time Google invested in former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures. Then Intellectual Ventures went and secured 30,000 patents. Some of which the company is now reselling or, essentially, licensing to “startups” like Pragmatus AV — which is suing Google subsidiary YouTube along with Facebook and LinkedIn for patent infringement because [...]

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Linkdump: GPUs, Asteroids and Forcible Frottage

November 17, 2010 – 1:23 am

Everything’s coming up NVIDIA lately, what with its GPUs powering the new “world’s fastest supercomputer” and, now, Amazon’s recently announced Cluster GPU Instance offering which is great at cracking SHA1 hashes. (To be fair, even Joyeurs think utility GPU computing is pretty cool.) Intel has promised to unveil its new Sandy Bridge integrated CPU-GPU on [...]

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Linkdump: Hating on “NoSQL,” Alan Turing and Ritual Human Sacrifice

November 13, 2010 – 8:02 pm

“It takes about 1,000 times more energy to move a data byte around than it does to do a computation with it once it arrives.” The Economist explores the interplay of sensor networks, data visualization, cloud computing and mobile clients and then makes it accessible with some sensational worst-case scenarios at the end. A cache [...]

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Linkdump: Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman

November 11, 2010 – 2:42 am

IBM has recently snapped up researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Yale who are confident they can “double the computational power of their quantum computers next year.” Xerox PARC’s Principal Scientist and Manager of Ubiquitous Computing Bo Begole explains how now that systems are saturated with sensor data, it’s all about the [...]

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Linkdump: “First the Tragedy, and then the Farce”

November 5, 2010 – 2:27 am

Oprah has ditched Skype, and instead signed a deal to promote Cisco’s ūmi video conference… erm, “telepresence” system which should be available at a Best But near you soon enough. Might not be such a great deal for Cisco, as Oprah’s heading to her own cable network, and 500,000 people dropped their cable plans in [...]

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Linkdump: Laser-Powered Drones, Hide and Seek at HP and It’s Not so Sunny at Solyndra

November 4, 2010 – 2:10 am

Oracle has submitted a portion of its Oracle Cloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force as a potential infrastructure-as-a-service standard. Yahoo has officially open-sourced the S4 “Real-Time MapReduce” code. Apple is throwing its weight behind Intel’s LightPeak 10Gbps serial connection, which could spell doom for USB 3.0. And Google has released an Apache module, [...]

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Linkdump: Movember, Roll on Columbia and Giants Win!

November 2, 2010 – 1:27 am

New Joyeur Trent Mick has a ways to go on his moustache for Movember, the Australian prostate cancer charity craze that’s sweeping the world, or at least our Vancouver office. If you have a prostate, or love someone who does, they’re basically ticking time bombs, so feel free to fill in that upper lip or [...]

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Linkdump: Release the Lawyers, and Other Non-Sequitirs

October 28, 2010 – 11:08 pm

While Oracle “reached out to Josh Bloch of Google to encourage him to renominate himself” to the Java Community Process Executive Committee, they might not have heard back because Oracle is accusing Google of “directly copied” Java code in Android. Also, Larry Ellison just won’t let the whole Hewlett-Packard hiring of SAP’s former CEO thing [...]

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Linkdump: Tevatron Lives, Billionaires Slapfight and the Notorious B.I.G.

October 27, 2010 – 10:40 pm

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers is looking to raise $1.4 billion in two new funds, including $125 million for IT investment as part of the new general fund and another $750 million for a “Digital Growth Fund” that Fortune’s Dan Primack assumes to be for late-stage IT investment. But according to the legendary Sy Hersh, [...]

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Linkdump: Gates Manor, Big Blue, Gaga and Cosmonauts

October 25, 2010 – 5:01 pm

Because everyone loves to hate Microsoft, Melinda Gates recently boasted that “Nothing crosses the threshold of our doorstep” when it comes to Apple products. Because lord knows one wouldn’t want anything with refined aesthetics into a monstrous, four-story underground bunker in Medina. But I digress. Or do I? Five banks have downgraded Microsoft’s stock prospects [...]

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