Sunday, 1 July 2012

How Seanan McGuire Perfected Her Fictional Zombie Virus

When Seanan McGuire set out to write her Newsflesh trilogy, she went to some extreme lengths to make her zombie virus as realistic as possible.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/geeks-guide-seanan-mcguire/

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First Robot & Frank Trailer Sketches Man-Bot Bond

An new robot befriends an old thief with amusing results in the new trailer for Robot & Frank. Set in the near future, the film takes the Siri concept a step further by picturing a world in which a human-size automaton blandly breaks the law if that pleases its master.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/robot-frank-trailer/

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Blame game over Amazon outage misses the point

On June 14, the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform experienced a serious outage in its Virginia (U.S.-East) data center. Apparently power-related, the outage took down portions of one of the four independent availability zones that operate in that data center. As a result, many popular websites and a slew of less popular ones disappeared from the Internet for several hours.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/blame-game-over-amazon-outage-misses-the-point-196213?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Yellow Alert Raised at El Hierro in the Canary Islands

INVOLCAN, the Volcanological Institute of the Canaries, along with PEVOLCA (the Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk), has raised the alert status in parts of El Hierro to “Yellow” after increasing signs that we could be headed towards new eruptive activity in the Atlantic Island. The increased seismicity reported over the weekend was part of [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/yellow-alert-raised-el-hierro-canary-islands/

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The Higgs Boson: Whose Discovery Is It?

While the history books will likely remember the final announcement of the Higgs discovery at the LHC most clearly, the road to discovering this strange particle has been a long one, paved by many. Who deserves the glory?

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/whose-higgs-boson-is-it/

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Beyond iPhone and Android: 5 hot new platforms for developers

Beyond iPhone and Android: 5 emerging platforms to develop for next

A long time ago in a mind-set far away, I spent a lunch with friends trying to figure out what we'd do if we could reprogram our cellphones. Our ideas were, in retrospect, lame.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/application-development/beyond-iphone-and-android-5-hot-new-platforms-developers-195949?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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A reality check for OpenStack

Last week I caught up with Rackspace president Lew Moorman at the GigaOM Structure event to promote OpenStack, the open source "cloud operating system" started by Rackspace and NASA.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/reality-check-openstack-196249?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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