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Creativity in the Cloud: The Internet As Global Brain (Tiffany Shlain)

The future of film is collaborative storytelling, says Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards.

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DNA In the Cloud

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Schatz believes the solution lies in cloud computing. He hopes to use Google's algorithms to sort through the genomic data deluge. “Our genome is a molecule about three billion bases long, but today there is no technology that can just read off all of these individual nucleotides," he told Big Think. "Instead, the technology sequences little tiny fragments from here and here and here and here and here. How can we interpret what the entire genome is from all these little snippets?”

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We're Living in a Space Cloud

We're Living in a Space Cloud | Science News | Scoop.it
Our solar system is traveling slowly through an interstellar cloud of gases.
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Amazing video of a bizarre, twisting, dancing cloud | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Amazing video of a bizarre, twisting, dancing cloud | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
Cool stuff | chemtrails | A couple of months ago, BAbloggee Henrik Magnus Ulriksen sent me a link to a video of a cloud that frankly left me -- har har -- twisting in the wind.
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» Cloud Connectivity Turns Cars Into Chameleons

» Cloud Connectivity Turns Cars Into Chameleons | Science News | Scoop.it
A collaboration between Ford and Google may produce plug-in hybrids that can pick and predict their powertrain use depending on location and past driving habits.
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Darpa seeks technology to see through clouds for warfighter support

Darpa seeks technology to see through clouds for warfighter support | Science News | Scoop.it
Advanced, flyable electronics and scene simulation technology sought for video synthetic aperture radar...
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Education: Why Cloud Computing? | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community

Education: Why Cloud Computing? | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community | Science News | Scoop.it

There are a lot of good reasons why schools, both in the lower and higher education sectors, should adopt cloud computing and embed such into their systems. In this article, we are going to talk about the different benefits, as well as some of the disadvantages and limitations of using cloud computing. However, it is but unwise and illogical to go on with the aforementioned subjects without understanding the meaning of the word ‘cloud computing.’ [...]

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Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of quantum mechanics.
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The trouble with the media Cloud: If we can have everything, does it mean anything?

The trouble with the media Cloud: If we can have everything, does it mean anything? | Science News | Scoop.it
Why did they call it 'The Cloud'? Couldn't they have chosen a better metaphor? Clouds burst. Clouds darken. Clouds disappear.
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