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Wednesday, 15th December 2010

Support Writers, Publishers, Non-Profits (Yes, Including WikiLeaks) With Donations Via Flattr

The refusal by PayPal, Moneybookers, Mastercard, and Visa to process payments to WikiLeaks was clearly an effort to sever the organization's access to online financial resources. But there remains one way to donate online to WikiLeaks, via the Swedish startup

Audrey Watters comments

Using WikiLeaks to Shape History as it Happens

The problem with working to change United States foreign policy is that you're never really sure what it's going on behind the curtain. By the time you have submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and the government deems the information you're asking for safe, the present has passed into history. Which raises the question, will…

Guest Author comments

VMware on Amazon Web Services or How the Cloud Becomes a Data Fabric

The news today from Amazon Web Services (AWS) which is now importing VMware virtual machines. The news reinforces how the cloud is far less about data centers and public clouds than about one extended network that allows for data to flow without distinction between the two. According to a post on the AWS blog, VMware images can now be imported…

Alex Williams comments

This is a Computer

Everyone knows what a computer is. It's. Well. You. Come on. Let's see. OK. An iPad. That's a computer. And. So, there's laptops. You get the idea. Electricity! That's it. Definitely. And plastic. But before electricity and before plastic humans still had the drive to create devices to help them think, to do some of the heavy lifting. It's a very…

Curt Hopkins comments

Supercomputer Goes Synapse-to-Circuit with Jeopardy Champs

Hey, remember when the IBM computer Deep Blue went up against a chess grandmaster? That was cute. Well now a "DeepQA" supercomputer will go up against someone with a brain in his head: a Jeopardy champion. Actually, the computer, named "Watson," will go up against two of the winningest players in the show's history, Ken Jennings and Brad…

Curt Hopkins comments

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