Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess “feel” anything? To Christof Koch, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, the answer to these questions may lie in … Continue reading
How much should a robot be allowed to hurt its coworkers? It’s a puzzling question facing companies developing a new breed of industrial robots that work alongside humans on the factory floor. Safety Worries May Slow Integration of Robots into … Continue reading
It’s hard to ignore the Internet of Things. Pundits, futurists, tech companies and everyone in between seems to be talking about it. Gartner thinks the Internet of Things, or IoT, will reach 26 billion installed units and worldwide sales of … Continue reading
Unlike other e-commerce giants, Mark Vadon, Zulily’s Chairman and co-founder, said his fast-growing company is not trying to ship products to its customers in two days, much less in the same day. So, in today’s world of instant gratification, is that a problem? … Continue reading
They’re taboo for newsreaders and other public speakers, but the rest of us use filler words whenever our brain needs to catch up with whatever we’re saying. Which at least in my case is, uh, fairly frequently. Although we use … Continue reading
In 2008, Dan Markovitz was meeting with a group of R&D engineers at a high tech company. The engineers began complaining about e-mail. They were overwhelmed by the hundreds of messages arriving every day in their inbox, but at the … Continue reading
https://news.yahoo.com/flying-storm-shocking-truth-lightning-234927150.html When you’re on a plane, do you ever worry about what would happen if it is struck by lightning? Will the aircraft survive? As shocking as it may seem, lightning doesn’t actually severely damage a plane. Flying in a … Continue reading
The network industry, where Cisco dominates, is at the cusp of a huge change called software-defined networking. That’s where the high-end features built into expensive routers and switches are put into software that can run on cheap, commodity hardware. John … Continue reading
VMware just made two huge hires in its quest to disrupt Cisco’s $23 billion network equipment kingdom. It just hired Guido Appenzeller away from the network startup he co-founded, Big Switch Networks. VMware Is Building A Dream Team Of Engineers … Continue reading
VMware poached a veteran data center executive from Cisco Systems earlier this month, in the latest sign of the vendors’ intensifying rivalry in the software-defined networking space. Source: Cisco ‘Livid’ Over VMware’s Poaching Of Key Data Center Executive … Continue reading