Posts By: Jim Clark

The $75 Future Computer

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Description: Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world’s cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi. Source: forbes.com Date: Jan 10 2012 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands… Read more »

Health Risks of Texting

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Description: Health experts are seeing increased number of people with injuries from their phones. CBC News’ Sarah Konsmo reports Source: cnn.com Date: Jan 4, 2012 Questions for discussion: What are the health risks of texting? What are the actions one can take to reduce health risks of texting? Does this story make you take a… Read more »

iPhone 4S devours data twice as fast as previous model

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Description: Apple’s new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed. Source: theglobeandmail.com Date: Jan 6, 2012 When Apple rolled out the iPhone 4S in October,… Read more »

Big Data is watching you

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Description: In the past few years, companies have amassed trillions of digital bread crumbs: from credit card transactions, from people’s online wanderings on social media and search sites, from GPS devices embedded within smart phones. Source: theglobeandmail.com Date: Jan 6, 2012 The Christmas season may still be a recent memory, but many marketers are already… Read more »

IBM Analytics Help Memphis Cops Get ‘Smart’

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Description: Software enabling IBM to find patterns in crime data is one of thousands of so-called smart-city projects aimed at improving urban services around the world Source: www.businessweek.com Date: December 5, 2011 Memphis Police Lieutenant Paul Wright arrived at a shooting scene in the city’s Frayser neighborhood on Nov. 17, just as an ambulance was… Read more »

Cellphones Test Strength of Gym Rules

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Description: LIKE movie theaters and libraries, many fitness clubs have insisted for years that their workout areas should be cellphone-free. Source: www.nytimes.com Date: December 7, 2011 Their logic is as simple and straightforward as a push-up: they want to prevent people from yakking on their phones and annoying the fitness buffs who want to crank… Read more »

Laptop Wi-Fi said to nuke sperm, but caveats abound

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Description: The digital age has left men’s nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections. Source: www.reuters.com Date: November 29, 2011 In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a… Read more »