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atxryan — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:32:54 +0000

Technology Review: A New Kind of Microchip

atxryan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:23:41 +0000

A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could accelerate everything from online banking systems to the flash memory in smart phones and other gadgets.

Smarter Than You Think – I.B.M.’s Supercomputer to Challenge ‘Jeopardy!’ Champions – NYTimes.com

atxryan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:24:04 +0000

Barack Obama’s rant against technology: Don’t shoot the messenger | The Economist

atxryan — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:27 +0000

"the idea that educating people is the best way to enable them to adapt to technological change, and use it for good. But technology is not an alternative to education and empowerment; it can, in fact, help deliver them. America’s first web-savvy president should understand that."

Internet making our brains different, not dumb

atxryan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:50:51 +0000

David Clark, senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, said in the report that 10 years from now, "we may lose our ability to write, in the literal sense that students are no longer taught penmanship. We will either type or print like 8-year-olds."

NASA Spinoff homepage

atxryan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:19:29 +0000

For more than 40 years, the NASA Innovative Partnerships Program has facilitated the transfer of NASA technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy. The resulting commercialization has contributed to the development of commercial products and services in the fields of health and medicine, industry, consumer goods, transportation, public safety, computer technology, and environmental resources.

Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?

atxryan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:11:22 +0000

"Adobe is arguing that Flash is installed on 99 percent of all web browsers that support Flash, not 99 percent of all web browsers."

Fraser Speirs on the iPad- Future Shock

atxryan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

"The people whose backs have been broken under the weight of technological complexity and failure immediately understand what's happening here. Those of us who patiently, day after day, explain to a child or colleague that the reason there's no Print item in the File menu is because, although the Pages document is filling the screen, Finder is actually the frontmost application and it doesn't have any windows open, understand what's happening here."

NASA – Severe Space Weather–Social and Economic Impacts

atxryan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:56:57 +0000

TweetDeck makes managing Twitter Lists a breeze

atxryan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:34:50 +0000

We waited for the ability to group people on Twitter since it’s inception, but when they finally announced Twitter Lists there was something lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating to create and manage a list using the Twitter.com UI. Something as simple as the ability to add people to a list when viewing just that list was somehow not one of the features that they shipped.

TweetDeck fills that gap and more.

Simply add a new column using one of your Twitter lists. You can also create a new Twitter List from scratch. Hover over the title to edit this list.

Click ‘edit list’ to add or remove members. You can even create a new list from an existing list (yours or another user’s list you are following).

Filter your Friends list to easily find people and then drag n’ drop to add to the list!

That’s it! It’s a much improved Twitter Lists experience.

Bravo, TweetDeck.