"The Internet is a country where things cost zero" The director of Wired magazine -authentic bible of digital culture- argues that the Internet has established an unprecedented economic model where, now irreversibly, the philosophy of "total free ". And as Chris Anderson sees it, this circumstance, rather than a disaster, is an opportunity.
Adam Wilson, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has managed to post a phrase on twitter without typing, using his brain directly.
The Great Wall of China has an extension of 8,851 kilometers instead of 6,300, as it was supposed until now. And it is not that it has grown miraculously. While the previous calculations were based on estimates and reports, infrared technology and GPS have been used for the new measurements.
50 kilobytes is the "weight" in memory of a text of 25 pages, and 3.5 exabytes (more than 3.5 trillion bytes) would be necessary to archive all the photographs in the world. Discover these and other curious technophrases.
For most of the world's scientific laboratories, these days there is no vacation. And much less at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales, where Adam, the first machine to formulate hypotheses and carry out experiments, has just joined the staff.
The technology in these devices, such as the Philips WOWvx system, uses a series of biconvex lenses assembled into the pixels of some LCD or plasma monitors to produce nine images with different viewing angles.
In Germany they have just created a security window that detects if there is someone snooping on the other side of the glass, including where it is moving or how large it is.
Half of the lithium reserves used by mobile phones, cameras and other electronic devices, including new hybrid vehicles, comes from Bolivia, from the Salar de Uyuni.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
