fastcompany:

6 things the new Mac Pro inescapably reminds us of

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How the NSA monitors America’s phone traffic

fastcompany:

A scoop from The Guardian confirmed what many people suspected—the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying on the phone activity of millions of Americans. Using a secret court order, which was not disclosed to the public, the NSA obtained bulk phone records for Verizon’s customers on a daily basis. Each day, the NSA would receive a massive flood of data from Verizon.

How do they do it, and what can they do with the information? 

SQL JOINs visualized

nosql:

The best visualization of JOINS by C.L. Moffatt:

SQL JOINs

Original title and link: SQL JOINs visualized (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

futurist-foresight:

MicroBunny - A 3d sculpted resin creates a figure the size of a bacterium and paves the way for conductive materials at a microscopic level for future electrodes.

freshphotons:

Charred Micro-Bunny Sculpture Shows Promise of New Material for 3-D Shaping. Via.

Fonte: osa.org

cnce:

A 3D Printing system that can create forms without the hindrance of gravity - video embedded below:

A brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures. Conventional methods of additive manufacturing have been affected both by gravity and printing environment: creation of 3D objects on irregular, or non-horizontal surfaces has so far been treated as impossible . By using innovative extrusion technology we are now able to neutralize the effect of gravity during the course of the printing process. This method gives us a flexibility to create truly natural objects by making 3D curves instead of 2D layers. Unlike 2D layers that are ignorant to the structure of the object, the 3D curves can follow exact stress lines of a custom shape. Finally, our new out of the box printing method can help manufacture structures of almost any size and shape.

More at the project’s website here

via prostheticknowledge

Fonte: mataerial.com

Christian Cantrell Reviews Google Glass

nerdology: Xbox One Microsoft just announced the Xbox One. Excited that they actually showed off their hardware *cough*sony*cough* [via Major Nelson]
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nerdology:

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Microsoft just announced the Xbox One. Excited that they actually showed off their hardware *cough*sony*cough*

[via Major Nelson]

parislemon: stevekovach: To all of you complaining…why? Not me. I really think this is a great move for all parties involved. Congrats to the entire Tumblr team.
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parislemon:

stevekovach:

To all of you complaining…why?

Not me. I really think this is a great move for all parties involved. Congrats to the entire Tumblr team.

Fonte: stevekovach

Introducing Google Cloud Datastore

nosql:

Urs Hölzle in a post summarizing some of the announcements at Google I/O:

Google Cloud Datastore is a fully managed and schemaless solution for storing non-relational data. Based on the popular App Engine High Replication Datastore, Cloud Datastore is a standalone service that features automatic scalability and high availability while still providing powerful capabilities such as ACID transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes and more.

I’m heading over to the project’s site to read more.

Original title and link: Introducing Google Cloud Datastore (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

What Open Source Hadoop Coming to Windows Means to IT

nosql:

This will open up Hadoop to a large number of organizations that have no in- house Linux skills. Shaun Connolly, vice president of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks, explains the thinking behind moving HDP to Windows in this way: “Essentially it’s a market-driven decision,” he says. “Hadoop is built for the scaleout commodity hardware market, and the commodity hardware market is 70% Windows by install base and expertise.”

Employees in Windows-only companies will be able to make use of Hadoop easily because Excel can be used as a business intelligence tool to view the results of Hadoop Big Data analysis (whether Hadoop is running on Windows or Linux). “Ideally we want Microsoft users to be oblivious to the fact that everything is coming from Hadoop,” says Connolly. “If end users can consume data without any learning curve, thanks to tools like Excel, then they get more value.”

Either the data or the logic above is not sound:

  1. those Windows machines that make up the 70% of the market are probably running Excel
  2. those 70% of the market Windows machines are not going to run Hadoop

Based on this sort of market-share decisions, tomorrow we should see Hadoop for iOS and Android and Nokia. Sometime soon Microsoft will release Excel for iOS and maybe Android.

Original title and link: What Open Source Hadoop Coming to Windows Means to IT (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)