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by sterling "chip" camden

Recent advances in future computing speed:
Harvard researchers believe that relatively inexpensive nanowire transistors could perform four to five times faster than existing silicon chips. Added bonus: the processors can be embedded in flexible plastics, so printed circuit boards are not required. This would make them ideal for compact, low-cost appliances such as cell [...]

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by sterling "chip" camden

Anyone who owns a dog knows that animals have thoughts and feelings that mirror some of those experienced by humans. Despite their often vastly different sensory experiences (as brilliantly elucidated by Temple Grandin in Animals in Translation), their kinship with humanity isn’t purely an illusion created by our tendency towards anthropopathism. We do, [...]

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I just downloaded, uploaded, and activated Jerome’s keywords manager, v2, by Johannes Jarolim. This WordPress plugin lets you manage the keywords associated with the Jerome’s keywords plugin, which I use for tagging. The management plugin dovetails nicely with my tag cloud widget, because it lets you rename tags across all posts, among other [...]

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You tell ‘em, Cory (via Save the Internet). A thorough and thoughtful discussion of net neutrality. Cory Doctorow pulls the covers off the telcos’ infidelity:
The Bells and cable companies owe their existence to governmental largesse, and, while they’re profit-making private firms, they are, in effect, quasigovernmental organizations. A Bell that wants to get [...]

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