Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Twitter actually started working with real, live birds.
The company with a bird logo that gave us the “tweet” has partnered with Plume Labs of Paris and DigitasLBi to launch a flock of Internet-connected pigeons to monitor air pollution in London.
Plume Labs is an IOT company that uses a network of sensors around the world to deliver targeted pollution reports to people’s smartphones. DigitasLBi is a global marketing and technology agency.
Yesterday was the first of three days during which the group plans to launch a team of 10 pigeons wearing small pollution-monitoring backpacks. The sensors were specially designed by Plume Labs and are stuffed in small vests that are placed on the pigeons.
The sensors are able to monitor levels of nitrogen dioxide and ozone, the two main ingredients in urban air pollution, according to a press release from Plume.
The results of the “Pigeon Air Patrol” are posted directly onto the project’s Twitter account. Residents can also follow the birds on the Pigeon Patrol website, which will also show their location.
This shadow hardware market was rarely discussed in public. Companies like Google saw their latest data center hardware as a competitive advantage best kept secret from rivals. But then Facebook tore off the veil. It open sourced its latest server and data center designs, freely sharing them with the world under the aegis of a new organization called the Open Compute Project. “It’s time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club and demystify the way these things are built,” said Heiliger, then the vice president of technical operations at Facebook.
Google was the first company to rethink data center design for the modern age.
With the Open Compute Project, Facebook aimed to create a whole community of companies that would freely share their data center designs, hoping to accelerate the evolution of Internet hardware and, thanks to the economies of scale, drive down the cost of this hardware. That, among other things, boosts the Facebook bottom line. It worked—in a very big way. Microsoft soon shared its designs too. Companies like HP and Quanta began selling this new breed of streamlined gear. And businesses as diverse as Rackspace and Goldman Sachs used this hardware to expand their own massive online operations. Even Apple—that bastion of secrecy—eventually joined the project.
Two big holdouts remained: Google and Amazon. But today, that number dropped to one. At the annual Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California, Google announced that it too has joined the project. And it’s already working with Facebook on a new piece of open source hardware.
Open Compute has been transformative since day 1, and with Google finally joining, the number of missing elephants in the room has dramatically reduced.
What still puzzles me is the loud silence of European players in the field although we have a tremendous breed of companies and talent in that space. #HardwareIsNotDead
Open Compute has been transformative since day 1, and with Google finally joining, the number of missing elephants in the room has dramatically reduced.
What still puzzles me is the loud silence of European players in the field although we have a tremendous breed of companies and talent in that space. #HardwareIsNotDead
Open Compute has been transformative since day 1, and with Google finally joining, the number of missing elephants in the room has dramatically reduced.
What still puzzles me is the loud silence of European players in the field although we have a tremendous breed of companies and talent in that space. #HardwareIsNotDead
At the 2016 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona today, Facebook announced the formation of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an effort that resembles the Open Compute Project (OCP) that Facebook kicked off five years ago, but which is narrowly focused on the development of new telecommunications networking hardware.This isn’t just another internal effort on the part of Facebook. As it did with the Open Compute Project, Facebook is announcing TIP with a bunch of partners, including telcos like Deutsche Telekom of Germany, BT subsidiary EE of the United Kingdom, Globe Telecom of the Philippines, and SK Telecom of South Korea.
Interesting #MWC16 developments in open source hardware with #4G4All featuring 3 unknown #FrenchTech gems : Amarisoft, AW2S and SDS are building and showcasing a next generation Open Telecom Tower for the other 3 billion...
Smartwatches are growing fast, and last quarter, the budding product category shipped more devices than Swiss watches for the first time ever.
According to new data from Strategy Analytics, charted for us by Statista, the global smartwatch shipments reached 8.1 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, up more than four times what it shipped in the previous year. In the same period, Swiss watches shipped 7.9 million units, down 5% from last year.
Apple and Samsung led the growth, with each accounting for 63% and 16% of the overall smartwatch market, respectively.
Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, said part of this had to do with the Swiss watchmakers' slow response to the development of smartwatches.
"The Swiss watch industry has been sticking its head in the sand and hoping smartwatches will go away," he wrote. "Swiss brands, like Tag Heuer, accounted for a tiny 1 percent of all smartwatches shipped globally during Q4 2015, and they are long way behind Apple, Samsung and other leaders in the high-growth smartwatch category.
A Cornell University study of the system that powers Bitcoin concludes that it cannot become widely used without a major redesign: "The researchers estimate that Bitcoin’s current design could bear at most only about 27 transactions per second, using a block size of four megabytes, without forcing a significant cut in the number of computers powering the currency, making it more centralized. There is general agreement in the Bitcoin community that the system must remain decentralized to prevent the possibility of any company or government controlling the currency.“That’s still a fairly limited throughput,” says Emin Gün Sirer, an associate professor at Cornell who worked on the study. “If you compare it to what a big network like Visa is capable of [or] these imagined futures where computers are paying each other, it’s nowhere in the same vicinity.”Some people believe that Bitcoin can be useful without operating at vast scale, for example functioning as a gold-like asset generally held for long periods. But some of the biggest Bitcoin companies are built on the idea that Bitcoin will come to support a very large transaction volume.Brian Armstrong, CEO and cofounder of Coinbase, which helps people buy, sell, and use Bitcoins and has raised over $100 million, says he believes the currency will become widely used as a means of payment, particularly in the developing world.A company called 21 Inc has raised $121 million from investors, including the networking company Cisco, and says that very small “microtransactions” paid in Bitcoin will become an economic backbone used by people and companies to pay for services and goods such as Wi-Fi, data analysis, or music.Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, which supports three leading developers of Bitcoin’s code, says that he believes the people working on the currency will be able to find ways it can scale up. But it may not be possible to upgrade Bitcoin’s capacity fast enough to meet the expectations of some investors and the Bitcoin companies they have backed, he says. “I think there are some businesses that have promised returns based on the scaling that are not really reasonable,” says Ito. Ito is a member of MIT Technology Review’s board."
7 transactions/s means 220 million per year. Pushing the envelope to the theoretically mentioned 27 transactions/s would allow to reach over 850 million per year. Which, as pointed by @smetsjp , won't be enough to handle the needs for the Chinese or the European population.
Has anybody found a theoretical limit to the Blockchain TPS capabilities as a single distributed transactional system/space ?
Very interesting article that should urge us to explore together instead of stating any definite truth about Bitcoin and Blockchain. Please read before reacting...
I have decided to offload "Cross Pond High Tech" that may have been perceived recently as being crowded with too many Bitcoin / Blockchain curated links, and have created a new topic dedicated to Decentralized Consensus. It will be both in French and English and is at present managed by several curators including @CHECy and others.
The goal is to build it as a reference repository for e-Litterature on this fast morphing and still highly speculative topic.
-- Fork de Cross Pond High Tech dédié à Blockchain, Ethereum, aux Smart Contracts et au Consensus Décentralisé en général
You are welcome to susbcribe to this fork of "Cross Pond High Tech" focusing on Decentralized Consensus ; don't hesitate to submit enlightning and quality content. Thank you for your interest and future contributions !
Blockstream has raised $55m in Series A funding to continue its work expanding the bitcoin code base for commercial use.
With the news, Blockstream's total funding rises to $76m over two investment rounds. To date, the company's signature technology has been its sidechains offering, currently in testing, which enables the creation of blockchains that can validate data from, and transfer assets to, other blockchains.
Blockstream’s round was led by venture capital firms AXA Strategic Ventures, the venture capital arm of French multinational insurance firm AXA Group; Digital Garage, the Tokyo-based online payments firm co-founded by Joi Ito; and Hong Kong venture capital firm Horizons Ventures.
AME Cloud Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Future\Perfect Ventures were among other investment firms that participated in the deal.
Given the recent interest in private and permissioned blockchains, Blockstream sought to underscore the versatility of its technology as well as its early efforts to bring added functionality to the bitcoin network through interoperable blockchains.
Blockstream CEO Austin Hill told CoinDesk:
"We were one of the first companies that painted a vision for interoperable blockchains, that there wasn’t going to be one blockchain, but many of them, all building off the bitcoin codebase to deliver the technology."
Still, Hill said the company remains dedicated to developing technology for the open-source bitcoin blockchain, which it called the "most mature, well-tested and secure" infrastructure for blockchain services.
"What we would hate to see happen is the most robust and secure blockchain protocol getting left by the wayside if people moved on to different protocols and tech stacks that bitcoin isn’t designed for," Hill continued, adding:
"We believe there is a benefit to society to have all these blockchains be interoperable."
As for Microsoft, there are several interesting blockchain-related initiatives the tech mammoth is involved in. Microsoft recently presented the public cloud platform offering Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) through Microsoft Azure.As the company explained, the Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service provided by Microsoft Azure and ConsenSys allows financial services customers and partners to play, learn and fail fast at a low-cost in a ready-made dev/test/production environment. It will allow them to create private, public and consortium-based blockchain environments using industry-leading frameworks very quickly, distributing their blockchain products with Azure’s worldwide distributed (private) platform.One would be surprised how active Microsoft is with blockchain and with partnerships. According to the official website, there are six FinTech companies in partnership with Microsoft to work on blockchain technology.Just couple days ago, the list was updated as Microsoft shared the information of the role each company plays in these multiway partnerships.
Very interesting and insightful research detailing Microsoft's serious involvement in #Blockchain technologies and infrastructure. You'll learn about the 6 companies they are teaming up in the domain, about the #Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (BAAS) platform they have deployed on top of their Azure Cloud platform, as well as their involvement in the R3CEV consortium that also seems to be running on Ethereum.
Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired SwiftKey — a startup based out of London that makes keyboard apps for Android and iOS devices and is already installed and used on some 300 million devices. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed but sources close to the deal tell us it’s $250 million in cash after Microsoft beat out other interested buyers, which we’ve heard also included Apple.The deal will see Microsoft make further inroads into mobile productivity services — an area where it’s already made other acquisitions to gain ground, such as Wunderlist and Acompli.But from what we understand, SwiftKey may also become part of another Microsoft ambition. Microsoft wants to grow use of its Cortana digital assistant on Android, and by integrating Cortana into SwiftKey, some believe that it could be the gateway ramping up Cortana use without having to install a standalone app. (Cortana, incidentally, is being integrated elsewhere, too.)
Another #UI deal in a row announced today. Microsoft seems to be playing go with the smartphone platform vendors and Swiftkey is a nice move in such game as it paves the way for Cortana and the #AI behind it...
Technically, today is the 15th anniversary of the relicensing of all the VideoLAN software to the GPL license, as agreed by the École Centrale Paris, on February 1st, 2001.
If you've been to one of my talks, (if you haven't, you should come to one), you know that the project that became VideoLAN and VLC, is almost 5 years older than that, and was called Network 2000.
Moreover, the first commit on the VideoLAN Client project is from August 8th 1999, by Michel Kaempf had 21275 lines of code already, so the VLC software was started earlier in 1999.
However, the most important date for the birth of VLC is when it was allowed to be used outside of the school, and therefore when the project was GPL-ized: February 1st, 2001.
Facts and numbersSince then, only on VLC, we've had around
700 contributors,
70000 commits,
at least 2 billion downloads,
hundreds of millions users!
And all that, mostly with volunteers and without turning into a business!
We have now ports for Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, OS X, iPhone and iPad, Android, Solaris, Windows Phones, BeOS, OS/2, Android TV, Apple TV, Tizen and ChromeOS.
Blockchain technology will transform the way regulators work, according to a member of the wholesale markets team at the Financial Conduct Authority, which is known to support the idea of "RegTech".
Makoto Seta, a senior associate from the trading conduct and settlement policy division at the FCA, was part of a panel hosted by Norton Rose Fulbright at its Unlocking the Blockchain session.
Seta said: "Might the blockchain transform the way the regulators work? I absolutely agree with that. I think there are a lot of benefits to be harnessed from distributed ledger, in terms of traceability and tracking, that makes it easier for us.
"I think regulators do now perceive this to be important; the degree of importance will probably differ between regulators. We look very seriously at it and have been doing that for some time now, looking at the technology and how it's been used. I think the issue that we have is, trying to sort of marry up the technical codes and how that interacts with the legal codes."
A very novative (and inspiring) approach by the FCA combining how regulation applies to #Blockchain tech AND how such decentralized consensus could also apply to making regulation more effective.
A very novative (and inspiring) approach by the FCA combining how regulation applies to #Blockchain tech AND how such decentralized consensus could also apply to making regulation more effective.
Ethereum Now Second Biggest Cryptocurrency as Market Cap Reaches $200m.The price of Ether jumped another 25% in the last 24 hours alone, overcoming Ripple as biggest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin.It seems that investors are really buying the hype that Ethereum is cryptocurrency 2.0 and Bitcoin 3.0, quickly propelling Ether to the position of second biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, passing Ripple and now trailing only bitcoin itself.The total market cap of Ethereum’s cryptocurrency just about doubled over the past week, reaching $200 million for the first time after only crossing past $100 million last Monday. The price jumped about 25% in the last twenty-four hours alone to above 0.0066 BTC ($2.60). Fueling the rise of Ethereum’s price were large trading volumes, about $11.6 million in the last twenty-four hours – a fifth of bitcoin’s daily trading volume ($54.5m ADV).If you still don’t know Ethereum, its a decentralized smart contracts platform which proponents see as much more than just a cryptocurrency system as per the original idea of Satoshi Nakamoto. It is instead referred to as a better replacement to the internet or a “planetary scale computer” that can handle everything from secure communication and e-commerce, to digital governance, the internet of things and much much more.One possible reason for the increased trading volume and price of Ether is online rumors that a big Chinese cryptocurrency exchange is about to add it to its roster. Another factor which we wrote before as likely to have brought more investors’ attention is its recent integration with the mainstream financial system. Just last Wednesday, eleven of the world’s biggest banks completed an experiment which connected them on a managed private peer-to-peer distributed ledger, underpinned by Ethereum technology.http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/trading/ethereum-now-second-biggest-cryptocurrency-as-market-cap-reaches-200m/
#RIP Ripple ? While this confirms the high volatility of crypto currencies (seen as currencies), it evidences also the growing interest in decentralized consensus platforms and the potential of smart contracts.
While the Phantom is a product that’s actually for sale in places such as the Apple store, its real purpose is to showcase Devialet’s audio technologies. In a recent interview, Devialet CEO Quentin Sannié explained that the company’s ultimate goal is to get its technology into everything from phones, to cars, to television sets — really, anything that outputs audio.
The Phantom is a showcase for two of Devialet’s developments: a software-based technology called Speaker Active Matching (SAM) and a hardware-based amplification system that combines an analog amp with a digital one. Sannié says that the SAM algorithm could be implemented into any digital signal processor, even the one in your phone, and can improve the sound quality of hundreds of devices. The algorithm is developed by measuring the behavior of each speaker and then creating a mathematical model to control how the speaker behaves. This measurement process can be done in about 10 minutes using special, laser-based tools the company developed for it.
The Phantom is a showcase for Devialet's technologies
Sannié says that a system using SAM can reproduce lower frequencies without changing its hardware at all, and it can even enable noise-cancellation without the need for a subwoofer. It’s part of the reason that the Phantom’s relatively small drivers move so quickly when the volume is cranked up and have little to no distortion. Sannié claims that SAM could even be used by a streaming service to optimize audio before it’s even delivered to a listener. A user could tell the service what kind of speakers or headphones they are using and the sound would be tailored just for them.
Imagine there was a device that could help make your car run quicker, cheaper and help you save the environment? Well that’s what OOCar is offering with its latest service.
The company has a small dongle that you attach to your car’s diagnostics port – every vehicle made after 2001 has one. Once there, it then tracks your car’s performance and sends it to the OOCar app where it can give you tips and advice on how to save cash.
The startup claims it can save you as much as 30 percent on fuel costs and 40 percent on insurance premiums. Not bad.
When the dreaded engine warning light comes on, it can give you a breakdown of the damage and also a rough cost of repairs, so you can tell if a mechanic is trying to pull a fast one. The app is only available in France right now, but the team hopes to start expanding across Europe soon.
Last week, WhatsApp announced it would shut down support for some of the older smartphone operating platforms, including Blackberry 10, which was released just 3 years ago."We want to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use," WhatsApp said in a blog post.WhatsApp's decision makes sense if you look at the changing landscape of smartphone operating systems. As this chart from Statista shows, the smartphone market is dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS, each accounting for 81.6% and 15.9%, respectively.That's a complete reversal from 2009, when smartphones were just starting to emerge: almost 80% of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by non-iOS and Android players, like Blackberry and Nokia. Today, 99.5% of the smartphones run on operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft, according to WhatsApp.
Streamroot harnesses the latest web technologies (HTML5 and WebRTC) and powerful proprietary algorithms to offer state-of-the-art P2P streaming.
Streamroot improves on traditional unicast video delivery by decentralizing exchanges and providing content via multiple sources.
With Streamroot, viewers begin loading video content directly from your server. At the same time, they connect to the Streamroot tracker, retrieve an intelligently selected list of peers, and establish a direct connection with them to exchange video segments.
Segments come from the source that provides them most quickly, improving exchanges, heightening reliability and better managing traffic.
P2P has often been too easily associated with its early "uses cases" that often involved unauthorized content distribution. Streamroot reminds us that technology is neutral and apparently has found an interesting business model.
"Une nouvelle guerre de religion modifie subrepticement notre monde contemporain. J'en suis convaincu depuis longtemps, et lorsque j'évoque cette idée, je m'aperçois qu'elle recueille aussitôt un consensus.
Ceci n'a pu vous échapper, le monde est aujourd'hui divisé en deux: d'un côté les partisans du Macintosh de l'autre ceux du PC sous MS-Dos. Eh bien, je suis intimement persuadé que le Mac est catholique et le Dos protestant. Je dirais même plus. Le Mac est catholique contre-réformateur, empreint de la "ratio studiorum" des Jésuites. Il est convivial, amical, conciliant, il explique pas à pas au fidèle la marche à suivre pour atteindre, sinon le royaume des cieux, du moins l'instant final de l'impression du document. Il est catéchistique, l'essence de la révélation est résolu en formules compréhensibles, et en icônes somptueuses. Tout le monde à droit au salut.
Le Dos est protestant, voire carrément calviniste. Il prévoit une libre interprétation des Écritures, requiert des décisions tourmentées, impose une herméneutique subtile, garantit que le salut n'est pas à la portée de tous. Faire marcher le système nécessite un ensemble d'actes personnels interprétatifs du logiciel: seul, loin de la communauté baroque des joyeux drilles, l'utilisateur est enfermé dans son obsession intérieure.
On m'objectera que l'arrivée de Windows a rapproché l'univers du Dos de la tolérance contre-réformatrice du Mac. Rien de plus exact. Windows constitue un schisme de type anglican, de somptueuses cérémonies au sein des cathédrales, mais toujours la possibilité de revenir au Dos afin de modifier un tas de choses en se fondant sur d'étranges décisions: tout compte fait, les femmes et les gay pourront accéder au sacerdoce.
Naturellement, catholicisme et protestantisme des deux systèmes n'ont rien à voir avec les positions culturelles et religieuses des usagers. J'ai découvert l'autre jour que Franco Fortini, poète sévère et tourmenté, ennemi déclaré de la société du spectacle, est un adepte du Mac. Cela dit, il est légitime de se demander si à la longue, au fil du temps, l'emploi d'un système plutôt que d'un autre ne cause pas de profondes modifications intérieures. Peut-on vraiment être à la fois adepte du Dos et catholique traditionaliste ? Par ailleurs, Céline aurait-il écrit avec Word, WordPerfect, ou WordStar ? Enfin, Descartes aurait-il programmé en Pascal ?
Et le langage machine, qui décide de notre destin en sous-main, et pour n'importe quel environnement ? Eh, bien, cela relève de l'Ancien Testament, du Talmud et la Cabale. Ah, encore et toujours le lobby juif! (1994)." extrait de "Comment voyager avec un saumon", de Umberto Eco, chez Grasset.
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference.
With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in May .../...
This week, we’ve selected six Internet of Things startups that aresure to make your stuff smarter. Whether it’s keeping up to date with your home’s power usage and security, or saving money by changing your driving habits, there’s bound to be something here for your wish list.
Check out the six companies that have been invited to participate here
New York City's decentralised apps studio ConsenSys is beginning its "Internet-of-People" campaign with Ethereum-based identity on Ubuntu phones and tablets.
ConsenSys and BlockApps are collaborating with the Ubuntu project's commercial sponsor, Canonical, to deliver web wallet and identity system uPort Biometric Identity tools on Ubuntu devices.
The Nimbus/uPort/Ubuntu proof-of-concept will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress on 22 February, said ConsenSys in a statement.
Nimbus permits users secure interaction with the Ethereum blockchain through biometric protection of cryptographic keys. Through this feature, users will be able to access Ethereum to use decentralised applications (DApps) and develop Ethereum blockchain software.
uPort
uPort represents the next generation of identity systems: the first identity system to enable self-sovereign identity, allowing the user to be in complete control of their identity and personal information, said ConsenSys.
The uPort attestation system allows third-party authorities as well as peers to validate the user's information creating both a rich social fabric as well as powering solid KYC/AML systems in the financial sector. Through uPort's selective disclosure system the user has a total overview over which of their peers, business partners or counterparties can access their information.
Ubuntu
The Ubuntu phone allows total control over the information users distribute online including digital identity. Ubuntu phones and tablets are ideal prototyping tools for building the next generation of mobile blockchain apps as they offer a combined development environment and a testing tool for mobile apps.
As well as inheriting from Ubuntu's security and respect for user's confidentiality, these devices build on strong relation created on the server and cloud side between Ubuntu and Ethereum.
Another move in the Etherealm reminding us how intense the race in decentralized consensus has become, and how critical digital identity management will be to successful deployments.
By the way the social part in uPort is a brilliant ID...
Another move in the Etherealm reminding us how intense the race in decentralized consensus has become, and how critical digital identity management will be to successful deployments.
By the way the social part in uPort is a brilliant ID...
We can “open” legal documents just like we “opened” source code. And the gains in cost and efficiency will be tremendous, just like it was with Open Source.Several years ago, I met Jim Hazard and he explained to me that legal documents should be managed like software, and that we could get the same gains as what happened with Open Source if we started building contracts that way.I agreed then and I see it happening now!The CommonAccord team has recently reached a great milestone in building a system that would implement the concept and data model that Jim had in mind.They are using Github, so it is easy to get the code and install it on a local machine or on a server. And it comes with a whole set of documents already available.
"Record format" is to process interoperability what IP has been for the Internet: fascinating and ambitious open source approach to Digital Contracts, that could combine with OAuth for access control and Blockchain for managing and tracing contracts.This might be a cornerstone for emerging "LawTech" sector, and I hope we will see emerge a "Center for Decentralized Law"...
French startup that crowdsources network coverage data about mobile operators, has been acquired by Mosaik, a Memphis, Tennessee-based company that provides network intelligence to telecom companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Founded out of Paris in 2010, Sensorly’s mobile app for Android and iOS lets its users carry out speed tests and see coverage maps of 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi networks based on data gathered en masse from Sensorly’s users around the world.
Magic Leap raised $794 million in new funding and CEO Rony Abovitz posted a blog suggesting the secretive company is moving closer toward a product, writing “we are setting up supply chain operations, manufacturing.”
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba led the round and Joe Tsai, Alibaba’s Executive Vice Chairman, is getting a seat on the board. The announcement roughly confirms a December report suggesting the company was raising money in this ballpark.
The Series C round puts the Florida startup’s funding to date close to $1.4 billion.
Magic Leap also seems to have named its technology “Mixed Reality Lightfield” with subtle language in the blog post linked above that might be commentary about current VR technology, which isn’t able to perfectly reproduce what your eyes see in the real world.
“It comes to life by following the rules of the eye and the brain, by being gentle, and by working with us, not against us,” Abovitz wrote about the company’s technology. “By following as closely as possible the rules of nature and biology.”
Abovitz previously suggested Rift-like VR headsets have a history of “issues that near-eye stereoscopic 3d may cause” and that “we have done an internal hazard and risk analysis….on the spectrum of hazards that may occur to a wide array of users.”
The staggering amount raised by MagicLeap is all but virtual and makes Oculus Rift acquisition price look almost "reasonable".#SelfReminder: need to update my "Brief History of Interfaces" slide deck
With @Trooclick you can see a summary of what 45 speakers said about @Alphabet passing @Apple in market cap... for now.
My preferred comment is "Essentially, what they have now is a big advertising business and a venture capital business." by Forrester's Frank Gillett ; and yours ?
Since it was founded five years ago, OCP has brought new levels of openness to data center technology, and momentum is continuing to build around open source contributions for networking, servers, storage, and Open Rack. For example, we saw the acceptance of new OCP switches from Mellanox, Accton, and Inventec just in the past two months, along with an open TOR network switch from Facebook called Wedge.Based on the positive results of these previous efforts, we are creating a new OCP Telco Project as an open forum to advance the following objectives: 1) communicating telco technical requirements effectively to the OCP community; 2) strengthening the OCP ecosystem to address the deployment and operational needs of telcos; and 3) bringing OCP innovations to telco data center infrastructure for increased cost-savings and agility.We are optimistic about the potential of open hardware to bring large-scale gains to the telecommunications industry, and that starts with increased participation. Today, a number of leading telecommunications companies announced they are joining OCP to support the goal of openly working to drive more efficiency, flexibility, and customization in data center technologies. Specifically, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, EE, SK Telecom, and Verizon are joining OCP and demonstrating the demand for more innovation, vendor choice, and customization in their infrastructure designs.
Open Compute, meet AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon & other telcos as they finally realize how SDN will reshape their Datacenter needs #HardwareIsNotDead
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Congratulations to Romain Lacombe for deploying real birds and monitor our air. Very interesting combination of IoT + SmartCity + BigData approach