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PC Case Modder Takes Computer Design Beyond the Dull Gray BoxJeffrey Stephenson surrounded by several of his computer designs.
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Italy
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Cinque Terre (Five Lands) is a group of stunningly beautiful villages clinging to the edge of the rugged rocky cliffs on the Ligurian Coast in north-west It…
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Great Shot: Mother Earth in High-Def
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NASA’s High-Res ‘Blue Marble’ Image is Sharpest EverU.S.
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Russia’s Middle Class Drives Thriving PC Market
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Improved Living Standards, Computer Literacy and Internet Access Combined with a Significant Drop in Prices, Are Making PCs Attractive and Accessible to More PeopleLaptop and Ultrabook computers in Moscow retail store.
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Sophia Loren by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Italy, 1961 | Retronaut
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All images by Alfred Eisenstaedt … Thank you to LIFE Archive.
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Digital Arts Renaissance in the Cloud
In the final weeks of 2011, I drove to Berkeley to interview the founder and digital artists at McNeil Studio to hear first-hand about their first experience using cloud computing services to create a fast-moving animation based on paper origami designs.
I shot a video and wrote this article for Intel Free Press — Cloud Computing Democratizes Digital Animation — focusing on the impact of cloud computing — paying for on-demand supercomputer power from datacenters owned by Amazon. The story also appears in Silicon Valley Watcher.
The idea of sending pieces of a render job out to different computers to crunch was novel and felt somewhat risky, but the results, the speed and the cost all had the McNeil Studio team singing the praises of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing service.
I was also drawn into the actual creative process and how they turned
paper origami figurines into an engaging animated story for my employer,
Intel, which wanted to redesign its consumer technology website with
examples of how people can use their computer to do amazing, dazzling
things in life.
I crack up at the penguin scene.
The final version is at Intel’s Unfold What’s Possible site.
Related articles
- Moving to the Cloud (vendio.com)
- Amazon’s Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent (mashable.com)
CES 2012: Measuring Social Conversations Amid the Noise
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A Look Inside the Social Cockpit Intel is Using to Discover and Analyze What’s Getting the Most Buzz on Twitter, Blogs, Facebook and YouTubeThe online heartbeat of the Consumer Electronics Show is being monitored in real time by a team of data…
Via newsroom.intel.com
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.
Timeline: A History Of Touch-Screen Technology : NPR
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Today’s touch-screen devices seem like a thing of the future, but the technology that runs your iPad or Android can actually be traced back to 1948 and something called the Electronic Sackbut.
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