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01 June, 2013
The White House is hosting a hackathon dedicated to government data. It happens this weekend, and it’s just one of the 93 hackathons organized across the U.S. as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, a.k.a. June 1. During the two-day event, participants will work to build software applications that solve problems proposed by local, state and federal government organizations. The data sets and challenges were provided by 22 government organizations in total, including the White House, NASA, and the Peace Corps.
DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learning from it. Listeners hated DRM because it restricted their ability to enjoy the music they paid for. Towards the end of the last decade businesses began to realize that DRM could be a headache for them as well, so eventually they wised up. By the end of 2011 all the major music stores were DRM free.
Memory gaffe leaves Aussie bank accounts open to theft. The client-side flaws allowed a custom malware tool to pull passwords, account numbers and access credentials from the Commonwealth Bank, ANZ Bank, Macquarie Bank, St George Bank and Bendigo Bank.
30 May, 2013
Why ‘additive manufacturing’ isn’t expected to take over large scale industrial production any time soon
- agonizingly slow operation
- niche applications only
- extremely low throughput per station
- hard to scale
- mostly small items only
- unsuited to volume production
- still in its earliest stages of development
- mostly plastic-only products
- limited range of fabrication materials
- mostly low precision output
- mostly fragile, low durability products
- mostly single fabrication material products
- mostly only for products with no moving parts
- mostly low quality surface finish
- highest spec 3D printers (fastest, most flexible, finest detail) still dramatically lower throughput than conventional production line equivalents
- cheapest 3D printers can make small, decorative knick-knacks, but not much else
- just fun to watch
- best for educational and hobby use
- just cheap toys for making cheaper toys
- just a designer’s fantasy about cutting out the middleman
- a great solution still looking for truly applicable problems
- serious cost issues on almost all large-scale applications
- unresolved technical problems on most fronts
- only really suitable for DIY or small startup usage
- only serious design role is prototyping
- only serious production role is for making molds
- suited to the desktop or garage, not factory operation
- CNC and robotics were also predicted to take over everything in manufacturing decades ago, but are still only niche
29 May, 2013
Advice to students wanting to get into the ICT industry: You are rarely going to get an opportunity to have your current employer pay for you to learn things, so learn them on your own and be in a position to leverage the skills when a new project comes along. But if you have a passion for technology, you’ll already be doing it, and enjoying it without needing me to tell you to. That’s why passionate people have a leg up.
28 May, 2013
Microsoft: Cloud Will Quadruple Power of Xbox One. "the Xbox One is ten times more powerful than the Xbox 360, so we're effectively 40 times greater than the Xbox 360 in terms of processing capabilities [using the cloud],
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3D,
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Game,
Graphic Design,
ICT Capability,
research
Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Jewish Lore. The latest experiment involves more than 100 linked computers located in a basement room at Tel Aviv University here, cooled by standup fans. They are analyzing 500 visual cues for each of 157,514 fragments, to check a total of 12,405,251,341 possible pairings.
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