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Share Your Extra Computing Power ‘Tis the season to #giveback, so why not consider volunteering your unused computing power? Let us count the many ways our computers, smartphones, and tablets can contribute—from detecting life in other galaxies to predicting earthquakes to finding better ways to treat cancer. |
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Smartwatches will Lap Fitness Trackers by 2018 People all over the world will be tracking their daily activity through their Fitbits, Jawbones, and other various bands wrapped around their wrists by 2018. Fitness trackers will triple in number by that year, but it’s smartwatches—led by Apple’s upcoming iWatch—that will really see the most use. |
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The Changing Dynamics of Online Shopping for the Holidays Every time we gear up for a peak-load online shopping day, one of main things is the application’s performance. Was it available without any downtime? Was the response time acceptable? Did the pages load fine? While this information is the main focus, there is increasingly more finesse involved. |
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The Ever-Increasing Competition in the Cloud A decade ago the cloud was still a new technology that Amazon had made headway into, while others were attempting to understand how it all worked. Fast forward to today, and the cloud is well established by both large and small players, and it is all about execution, expansion, and sales. |
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Google Contributor Is Removing Online Ads—for a Nominal Fee Ads are the financial backbone of so many popular websites, but the current system is broken. To combat this, a new program, Google Contributor, is allowing Internet users to pay a dollar or three dollars per month in order to remove ads from a handful of popular online destinations. |
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Anna and Elsa Join the Hour of Code 2014 Last year, Code.org launched the Hour of Code to introduce simple coding concepts to school-age children. The second annual Hour of Code is almost here, and this year’s tutorial features some serious girl power, starring the Disney Infinity versions of Anna and Elsa from Disney’s movie “Frozen.” |
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