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Google Patents

When Google was founded up in 1998 and until 2003, they had a total of 38 patents. If that number does not mean anything, the iPhone has more than 38 patents on it alone. While Google once thought that patenting … Continue reading

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New Deep Sea Technology

Scientists at The Tallinn Institute of Technology have created a small robot that is able to do deep sea exploration. The main purpose of the “Robot Sea Turtle” (as they call it) is to explore in places where humans have never … Continue reading

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Cheap 3D Printing

This website allows you to upload a file and check how much it would cost to print that item. They also have some templates that you can choose from to price check. They even list companies (from lowest to highest … Continue reading

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‘Cloud Computing’ an outdated term?

This is an interesting article about how the term ‘cloud computing’ should be changed to better fit what it ‘actually’ is and for people to better understand ‘cloud computing’.  The first point that the author is about a list of … Continue reading

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3D print anything, literally.

At the talk last week, one comment someone made was about 3D printing. While 3D printing is still a crazy idea to me, this makes 3D printing even more crazy. The Smithsonian just released codes that anyone can download and … Continue reading

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Worlds Largest Data Centers

I found this article amazing to see how large the top 5 largest data centers in the world actually are. Going to the Hospitals Data Center was the first on that I had even been too and I knew that … Continue reading

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Parallel Computing and Data-intensive Science

Parallel computing is a fairly new term and has helped the world with many different situations and problems. As many of you probably already know, parallel computing is using more than one computer hooked up through a network, or one … Continue reading

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What is a data scientist??

What is a data scientist?   A data scientist is someone who works with raw ‘big data’ and organizes and presents their findings to the company whom they work for. Data scientists jobs are to make some sort of finding, … Continue reading

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