The quest-a thirst unquenchable..
Quest - a thrust unquestionable..
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published January 18, 2018
In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 other young Germans had done well in a government-run competition designed to encourage students to pursue scientific research. In Horn’s case, it worked. Last summer, as a...
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published January 18, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider’s infrastructure, it might be possible to steal data from other customers. Meltdown Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program...
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by thequestforum · Published January 16, 2018
When Bitcoin was unleashed on the world, it filled a specific need. But it wasn’t long before people realized the technology behind Bitcoin—the blockchain—could do much more than record monetary transactions. That realization has lately blossomed into a dazzling and often bewildering array of startup companies, initiatives, corporate alliances,...
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by thequestforum · Published January 16, 2018
In 2017, IEEE Spectrum published more than 1,000 feature and news stories about technology. Here, we resurface our most popular posts of the year. If you missed them the first time around, we hope you’ll enjoy this chance to look back and discover new stories or revisit a favorite. 1. In...
For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published January 16, 2018
Yuval Harari’s recent work looks at the consequences of a futuristic biotechnological world where sentient biological organisms are surpassed by their own creations; he has said “Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so”.
To produce sufficient food for the estimated – nine billion people in 20 years, experiments with vertical farming, rooftop gardening and even sea-farming are being conducted. Food is inefficiently hauled around the world to feed cities and to provide people who live in places where no food can...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published October 28, 2017
In conversation with Amy Harmon, the two–time Pulitzer Prize–winning national correspondent for The New York Times, covering the intersection of science and society. In celebration of Tyson’s new book, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,” the duo will discuss his illustrious career as a science communicator and the...
For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published October 28, 2017
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published October 17, 2017
The personal data that is being collected by internet companies has turned into a goldmine. The applications for this enormous mountain of data is endless, from health care uses to marketeers who can accurately predict your behavior. But who is making money from your data? And who owns...
One of the topics we’ve repeatedly returned to here at ExtremeTech is the state of Moore’s Law and its long-term future. Our conclusions have often been at odds with public statements by semiconductor designers and the foundries that build their hardware. Intel, for example, is still stressing the importance and...
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