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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Name the top three CPU manufacturers; Intel, AMD, Nvidia? Nope!
The latest figures show that AMD fell back to a 4th place and Qualcomm and Samsung are now ranked second and third. The number five is even harder to guess: FreeScale is in front of Nvidia. Amazing changes brought by … Continue reading
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Is posting links to your blog the same as spamming?
G+ allows us to post reasonable length posts, but more and more people are going back to the old ´read my blog, here is the link´ style of posting. In the early beta-phase of G+ this was quite common, but … Continue reading
Android FairPhone: good working conditions and materials, lasting value
A Dutch initiative to produce a ´fair´ phone without child labor and a minimal environmental footprint. One of the goals is to make a phone which lasts longer thanks to upgradeable parts which will stimulate a second life in the … Continue reading
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Up to a trillion sex obsessed insects will hit Eastern parts of the US
Sensational title, but true. Scientist expect between 30 billion and 1 trillion cicadas to come out of the ground to mate. And they have been waiting for this moment; 17 years to be precise… A strange species which is best … Continue reading
First shot fired with (almost all) plastic gun made with 3D printer
Only the firing pin is metal and yet it survived its first shot on a firing range without exploding in the hand of owner and activist Cody Wilson. To comply with US weapon laws a piece of metal is inserted … Continue reading
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YouTube will no longer be free for premium content channels
According to the Financial Times YouTube will get a paywall for quality content channels. Subscriptions will be offered for $2/E1,5 per month to enable channel operators to produce different content, such as TV shows and films, a person familiar with … Continue reading
Social is getting old; Facebook, Twitter and G+ attract baby-boomers
According to the GlobalWebIndex between Q2 2012 and Q1 2013 Twitter’s fastest growing age demographic was 55 to 64 year olds, registering an increase in active users of 79%. Both Facebook’s and Google+’s fastest growing age demographic was 45 to … Continue reading