Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is a successful business because it wastes computer power--it has some 120, 000 servers powering its search engine--while it conserves its dearest resource, people.
Google is a successful business because it wastes computer power--it has some 120, 000 servers powering its search engine--while it conserves its dearest resource, people.
Unfortunately, I've grown increasingly hesitant about relying on BB Maps as my sole navigation option for my trip to Spain, so I've been playing with two other options: an older APK of Google Maps sideloaded from my computer -- it's sluggish, but usable -- and Nokia Here on the BB10 browser.
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The snag was that it took a lot of clever computer-programming to do it.
Since we're hard pressed to think of a scenario where having a calculator and card reader on hand would be essential to your well being -- especially considering that handy "Calculator" app that comes pre-loaded on most every computer these days -- it's difficult to postulate when this awkward combination of gadgets would actually come in handy.
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For instance, Apple and Intel could leverage each other's strength to go deeper into the home entertainment realm, such as with TVs or a hub device that is more networking- and satellite-oriented than it is computer-oriented.
Harryhausen called his format "dynamation, " and though it looks somewhat crude by today's computer-generated standards, it still packs a punch -- and other filmmakers remain agog by Harryhausen's abilities.
Two weeks ago a team led by Isaac Chuang at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) disclosed that it had built a 5-qubit quantum computer and used it to solve a relatively simple mathematical problem.
Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group--with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty--is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.
It not only created the hand-held computer category and the first workable handwriting-recognition system, it also pioneered the whole idea of doing digital tasks -- including e-mail and Internet browsing -- on a device other than the PC.
For your presentation development, you can do your brainstorming on a whiteboard, a computer screen or Post-it Notes as you generate your ideas, but what is as important as the free flow is that you see the ideas you generate in a panoramic or landscape view.
It would fill up that computer with - fill up two of these rooms and it wouldn't do as much as a PC will do today.
Scenes showing Michael Douglas --who plays an executive suing his female boss for sexual harassment--searching through virtual-reality software files came off as so far-fetched that it was tough for any mildly computer-savvy office worker to take the rest of the film seriously.
With its growth, Amerigroup will need all the computer-generated insight that its IT group can create.
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For someone with the current brain-computer interface technology, it takes tremendous concentration and effort to type out a short message on a computer screen.
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Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.
Ellison also noted that a paper option was important because many students in adult education classes lack the skills needed to take a computer-based test and that it will take time to beef up the courses to add that training.
All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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After all, the former UC Santa Cruz music professor's name has, over the past several decades, become closely tied to the world of computer-generated music -- it figures that the journey that began with punch cards would have eventually led to tablets and smartphones.
Computex may be an appropriate venue to launch the first 802.11ac-capable computer, but it's certainly not the best place to demo any flavor of wireless technology, so we look forward to putting the new spec through its paces in a slightly less saturated setting.
Initially the services will be prepared for users of the BT Openworld service, but eventually it will be expanded to become a portal that BTs customers can access via almost any device - be it interactive TV, hand-held computer or mobile phone.
Rather than trying to take virtual characters (and as great as even the new PS4 graphics look, game characters are still virtual) and turn them into live action actors, Wreck-It Ralph keeps these game characters within their computer-generated world.
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Washington (CNN) -- JetBlue Airways is apologizing for a "computer glitch" it blames for a family being told their 18-month-old daughter was on a government no-fly list.
Microchip makers and personal-computer manufacturers are already slogging it out with rivals, and casualties are mounting.
Flame, a backdoor Windows trojan, doesn't just sniff and steal nearby network traffic info -- it uses your computer's hardware against you.
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The fault means the rover's work has been put on temporary hold while the back-up computer is reconfigured so it can take full control.
No, it was a computer-driven trade based on a foreign currency.
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The self-propelled, 155 mm howitzer had a computer-automated loading system that allowed it to fire up to 10 rounds per minute as far as 25 miles.
Later this year it will add computer-packaged stock portfolios (of the sort pioneered by FolioFN) and then electronic advice service, with combined debit and credit cards to follow.
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