In March, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which funds the British Antarctic Survey, opened a competition. This was to name the new research vessel that will operate in the…
IBM buys The Weather Company..
After announcing a partnership earlier this year, IBM now announces it's intent to acquire the business and prediction elements of the Weather Company. The Weather Channel, the TV presence that…
Microsoft adds Blackberry to phone stable?
AMicrosoft having recently acquired the Nokia phone stable as platforms for Windows Phone are still rumoured to be looking at adding the Blackberry platform as well. In January of Samsung…
RIP: Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse
They're starting to become rarer, but for many of us, the thing next to our keyboard is still a major part of our lives in front of a computer. I'm…
IBM manipulates atoms for stop motion movie
What do you do when you have a scanning tunnelling electron microscope (STM) and a lot of time? You borrow from the skills and techniques of Ray Harryhausen and create the…
RFC6921: Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication
Recent research in to fibers that reduce latency to near the speed of light in a vacuum are leading moves to plan for networks that transmit at speeds greater than…
ExtremeTech: Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
ExtremeTech reports that researchers at the University of Southampton have achieved a breakthrough in reducing latency of data transmissions. The new fiber has a number of other benefits as well.…
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target…