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Stephen Hawking: ‘Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence – but are we taking AI seriously enough?’

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

With the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence playing in cinemas, with Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman showcasing clashing visions for the future of humanity, it’s tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction. But this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake in history. Artificial-intelligence (AI) research is now progressing rapidly. Recent landmarks such as self-driving cars, a computer winning at Jeopardy! and the digital personal assistants Siri, Google Now and Cortana are merely symptoms of an IT arms race fuelled by unprecedented investments and building on an increasingly mature theoretical foundation. Such achievements will probably pale against what the coming decades will bring.The potential benefits are huge; everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human…

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Docker ported into Hadoop as benchmarks show SCREAMING FAST performance

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Code committers hope unholy union of open source tech will spawn speedy gonzalez virtualization The Hadoop community is working on patches that will bring the popular app-containerization technology Docker into the data management system, and independent benchmarks are showing the tech has a huge speedup over traditional virtualization approaches. Docker is an open source Linux containerization technology that uses underlying kernel elements like namespaces, lxc, and cgroups to let an admin run multiple apps with all their dependencies in secure sandboxes on the same underlying Linux OS, making it an attractive alternative to typical virtualization, which bundles a copy of the OS with each app. In a set of benchmarks an IBM employee released on Thursday, the company showed that Docker containerization has some huge advantages …

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Docker ported into Hadoop as benchmarks show SCREAMING FAST performance

Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

As you are probably already aware, a certain person decided to smear a large number of highly classified documents over the internet. Part of these documents however included the ANT Hardware Catalogue. ANT is a division of the NSA responsible for developing hardware devices and software for use by the Tailored Access Operations division. The full catalogue is available from multiple sources – Although This gives a good overview of the capabilities of each device. The one product we’re going to focus on here is called SPARROW-II As you can see this system is used as a mobile wireless network (WLAN) detection point. A small computer intended to be used for WLAN collection, including from UAVs. Hardware: IBM Power PC 405GPR processor, 64 …

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Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you are creative freelancers or have a business of design agency, a web presence based on WordPress will be your best choice to give the potential clients an indication of your experience and expertise. Even if WordPress has been mostly used to create blogs, it can be well adapted to present your portfolios, demonstrate your work or projects, show off your skills and offer your services as a designer or creative professional in a stunning style. In this collection, we hand-picked the best WordPress themes for creative agencies and freelancers with superb visual design to get the visitors first impression. The themes will keep you up with the latest trends of design no matter you are freelancers, artists, web designers or photographers. It is worth …

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Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

Does it Really Exist?

May 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I admit that I didn’t know this technical term existed till somewhat recently. The Sandbox. That’s what it’s called. The sandbox. Really. The sandbox is the period of time that a new website owner blogs adds content, feeds their site but has nothing or almost nothing to show for it. The site is muddled, mired, bogged down in the sand. Question: Is there a search engine sandbox? Answer: From my experience. Yes, there is. Playing in the Sandbox I have numerous examples from my own experience where I plodded along, faithfully adding relevant content to my web site and seeing so little to show for my effort. Read minimal traffic. Then suddenly a jump. I wouldn’t exactly call it playing. Perhaps to …

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Does it Really Exist?