Sir David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram record for fastest time to reach one million followers. … with quiet words he describes the problems our world is facing … Is it time for a revolution and what would that look like?
Continue reading “What does the revolution look like”Is lawyering up premeditation?
Meanwhile, in Australia … a mining company, Rio Tinto apologizes for blowing up 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site in Australia’s Pilbara region. Which was half-arsed, especially considering that they lawyered up beforehand. This hypocrisy was pointed out by Australia’s satirical news service, the Chaser, who quipped Indigenous group apologise after accidentally blowing up Rio Tinto’s headquarters.
Continue reading “Is lawyering up premeditation?”Will the Facebook fix be a drug Europe turns down?
This article about Facebook threatening to pull out of Europe is like a ‘dorph addict saying the drug needs them more than they need it. (The article is doing the rounds on sites like Futurism and SocialMediaToday, along with some discussion on Slashdot) Most of which feeds my carefactor of zero. However, this does serve as an example of corporate bully-boy tactics that can do wrong.
Continue reading “Will the Facebook fix be a drug Europe turns down?”Changing the game with ubiquitous micro-computers
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer with the same capacities as a laptop or desktop, but with less power. These micro-systems are used to embed web-technology and help create the Internet of Things (IoT). I have used them to create a micro-webserver and a cloud-based file sharing. So let’s have a look at how these cheap little bad boys can be used in a cyberpunk setting.
Continue reading “Changing the game with ubiquitous micro-computers”Quantum processing expands the mind
IBM sets the goal of a 1000 qubit computer by 2023 and in the last year, there are been a lot of talk about the revolutionary effect of Quantum computing on the world. So now is the time to break it down and look at how to add it to your game.
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