Google sees television much as it sees phones, and most other devices we use: They will all be nodes to a system of immense computation.

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And I do think that it will all work better with nodes, hubs, almost certainly software based, which bring the investors and investees together.

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This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.

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Patwari says his algorithm squares the amplitude or loudness of the signal on each link between nodes, then averages it over all 380 links.

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The idea is to have lots of access points but make the access nodes as dumb as possible and move all processing activity to a central device.

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When a new block is announced, the other nodes in the network confirm that the proposed block follows all of the rules of the Bitcoin protocol.

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The more nodes, the more traffic, and the greater the need for a means to handle all this traffic efficiently.

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