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Is Too Much Information Really a Bad Thing?
An article on the Guardian website asks whether collecting too much information on innocent people makes it harder to catch the guilty. At a certain point, data gathered to predict the weather overwhelms your capacity to add it to your calculations efficiently, resulting in ever-longer runtimes that give less accurate predictions. It’s better to crunch [...]
For Rubix’s 23 is the New 25
Tomas Rokicki is at it again! If you recall, in March I wrote about his latest revelation that all Rubik’s Cube are solvable in 25 moves. Like any good mathematician and computer enthusiast, when in doubt, throw more hardware at the problem. Using the same algorithm as before with a Quad Intel Core 2 and [...]
Overnight Stays at the Border if Canada Copyright Law Passes
The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of traveling with such devices. The deal could also impose strict regulations on Internet service providers, forcing those companies to hand [...]
It’s Not a Bomb, It’s an Art Project
As Al Gore continues his onslaught against global warning and the go green initiative makes waves in corporations throughout the western world, courier company DHL has different aspirations. With a virtual slap to Gore, they chose to support an artist with a clever viral marketting campaign. The artist crafted a self-designed briefcase device with a [...]
Carbon Nanotubes – The Asbestos for the Rest of Us
A damper may be placed over the engineering and scientific possibilities of carbon nanotubes should a study out of the UK garner a lot of attention. Mice injected with specific lengths of the tiny fibers were found to cause asbestos-like symptoms in their lungs – a finding that will surely get the Lab Mice Union [...]
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