Category: Technology
Home Entertainment & Personal Computing Opens New Avenues for Active Optical Cables
The active optical cable market has grown at a rapid pace than what it was in 2007. Cloud and internet data centres are responsible for fuelling the growth. The active optical cable market caught several attentions when it originated in 2007. Application of these cables were then prominent in esoteric space of HPC data centres. […]
Search engines’ role in radicalisation must be challenged, finds study
Nearly 500,000 online searches a month return Islamist material, says report that advocates multilateral approach to removing extremist sites More than 484,000 Google keyword searches a month from around the world, including at least 54,000 searches in the UK, return results dominated by Islamist extremist material, a report into the online presence of jihadism has […]
Why Silicon Valley is embracing universal basic income
In a pilot study influential incubator Y Combinator will hand over cash monthly to 100 families in Oakland, California. Whats UBIs payoff for tech entrepreneurs? Silicon Valley has, paradoxically, become one of the most vocal proponents of universal basic income (UBI). Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, web guru Tim OReilly and a cadre of other Silicon […]
How the animal internet sheds light on the secrets of migration
Digital tracking of creatures from tiny birds to whales offers up new data on the epic trips some species make, and their role in ecology and economics Aristotle thought the mysterious silver eel emerged from the earth fully formed. The young Sigmund Freud could not understand how it reproduced, and modern biologists puzzled for years […]
WTF are techies saying? A linguistic guide for the aspiring tech hustler
In Silicon Valley, being ahead of the jargon curve can bring great social and financial rewards and it may even be confused for true innovation Its as common as the hoodies and the Soylent: Silicon Valley loves its jargon while simultaneously groaning over the weight of its pretense. However, this pain point is also an […]