Collaborate Disseminate
For a brief moment in the late ’00s, netbooks dominated the low-cost mobile computing market. These were small, low-cost, low-power laptops, some tiny enough to only have a seven-inch display, …read more Continue reading An Old Netbook Spills Its Secrets
AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller […] Continue reading AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones
Slapdash setup of Trump website collecting reports of Maricopa County in-person vote irregularities exposed 163,000 voter data records to fraud, via SQL injection. Continue reading Trump Site Alleging AZ Election Fraud Exposes Voter Data
Unless you’ve got your ear on the launch pad so to speak, you might not be aware that humanity just launched a new envoy towards the Red Planet. Estimated to touch down in Elysium Planitia on November 26th, the InSight lander is relatively low-key as far as interplanetary missions go. Part of the NASA’s “Discovery Program”, it operates on a considerably lower budget than Flagship missions such as the Curiosity rover; meaning niceties like a big advertising and social media campaign to get the public excited doesn’t get a line item.
Which is a shame, because not only are there …read more
The death of an Arizona woman hit by an Uber self-driving car marks the first pedestrian fatality by an autonomous vehicle. Continue reading Uber Self-Driving Car Kills Arizona Woman, the First Pedestrian Death By Autonomous Car
What must it be like to devote your life to answering a single simple but monumental question: Are we alone? Astronomer Jill Tarter would know better than most what it’s like, and knows that the answer will remain firmly stuck on “Yes” until she and others in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project (SETI) prove it otherwise. But the path she chose to get there was an unconventional as it was difficult, and holds lessons in the power of keeping you head down and plowing ahead, no matter what.
To get to the point where she could begin …read more