Computers

Paul Glister: Digital gadgetry, falling storage costs converge to reshape how past is viewed

Yahoo is now offering a free terabyte of storage on its Flickr site. That a terabyte of free storage is now in range for companies aggressively promoting their wares tells us a lot about the computing world today.

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EDUCATION

Special camp introduces homeless Raleigh children to robots

A three-day robotics camp was put on by Mop Top Shop, a for-profit organization trying to encourage interest in science and technology among black children and those from indigent families.
WAKE COUNTY

IBM helps train Raleigh Police Department leaders

A workshop, sponsored by an IBM service grant, is designed to show how any organization - even a police department - can benefit from creative leadership.
COMPUTERS

Google wants to turn searching into a conversation

Google has a voice search feature in its latest version of Chrome. It’s far from perfect but shows promise.
COMPUTERS

Live tweeting from space shows power of social media to engage public

Social media can put you in places you’re not using nothing more than 140 characters and a link. Livestreaming, tweets and networking from space bring us experiences we could not otherwise have and ramp up the public’s stake in what we as a species do.
COMPUTERS

Google Glass: inspired creativity but with real concerns

The next “great thing” from Google – networked glasses – has raised privacy and safety concerns even as it ups the cool factor.
COMPUTERS

How to reduce the daily deluge of email clutter

Digital clutter is a curse. For many of us, email has become the major way we keep up with friends both near and far. Here are some ways to reduce the daily deluge.
COMPUTERS

Caltech researchers work on electronic chips that heal themselves

Indestructible circuits are the ultimate goal of research on chips.
COMPUTERS

Brace yourself for the interspecies Internet

Humans have been experimenting with language and animal communications for a long time. Now Vinton Cerf, who most of us consider the “father of the Internet,” is proposing what he calls an “interspecies Internet,” a computing platform expressly designed to connect sentient...
COMPUTERS

Will 'smartwatches' be a hit with consumers?

Disruptive technologies can change the computer landscape instantly. The trick is to figure out whether a new product is truly disruptive or merely a passing fad, and on that score, the “smartwatch” is hard to judge.
COMPUTERS

Facebook's new search engine a work in progress

Facebook's new Graph Search is both a frontal assault on the other big search engines, specifically Google, and a way of unlocking value from Facebook's one billion users, who have created what the company claims are a whopping one trillion connections to each other.