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Thumb Your Nose at the NSA With Raspberry Pi
Roberto Baldwin, wired.comAdafruit has created a handy how-to to help you build a wireless access point that anonymizes your internet browsing using Tor and a Raspberry Pi.
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Two weeks ago, Jack Dongarra flew to Changsha, China for a meeting with researchers at the National University of Defense Technology, home to the country’s top supercomputing program. He expected an update on their plans for a new mega-machine, but they had a little surprise for him: The system was already up and running.
It’s called Tianhe-2, and with more than 3 million processor cores, it’s the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
[MORE: China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower]
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Two weeks ago, Jack Dongarra flew to Changsha, China for a meeting with researchers at the National University of Defense Technology, home to the country’s top supercomputing program. He expected an update on their plans for a new mega-machine, but they had a little surprise for him: The system was already up and running.
It’s called Tianhe-2, and with more than 3 million processor cores, it’s the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
[MORE: China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a57fe1c293ccf5a703b7a5fe390845e3/tumblr_moeua0iQy71r69k7do1_500.jpg)
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TREZOR The Bitcoin Safe
The Hardware Bitcoin Wallet. A step in the evolution of Bitcoin towards a completely safe payment system. No matter how unprotected your computer or internet connection might be, your bitcoins always stay safe with TREZOR. To give you full control over your Bitcoin wallet, TREZOR fulfills several security requirements. TREZOR is Windows, MacOS and Linux friendly. It works with most of the common Bitcoin clients. To use TREZOR is easy and absolutely intuitive.
[TREZOR] [via hacker news]
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Three digital accelerators have been driving the transition from change to transformation for many years, but due to their predictable exponential rate, they have now reached an inflection point — a point where processes, products, services, and careers no longer change; rather, they transform. The three digital accelerators are processing power, digital storage, and digital bandwidth. The impact of these three accelerators—the enormous gains in power, miniaturization, product intelligence, interconnectivity, cloud services, mobility and a raft of other technological dimensions—will be felt in every industry, every corner of the globe, and every nook and cranny of society.
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Millions Of Seniors Are Moving Back To Big Cities
Full Story: Business Insider
Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture
The researchers now know why ancient Roman concrete is so superior. They extracted from the floor of Italy’s Pozzuoili Bay, in the northern tip of the Bay of Naples, a sample of concrete headwater that dates back to 37 B.C. and analyzed its mineral components at research labs in Europe and the U.S., including at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. The analysis, the scientists believe, reveals the lost recipe of Roman concrete, and it also points to how much more stable and less environmentally damaging it is than today’s blend.
Full Story: BusinessWeek
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In his 1992 book “Earth in the Balance,” Gore compared talk of adapting to climate change to laziness that would distract from necessary efforts.
But in his 2013 book “The Future,” Gore writes bluntly: “I was wrong.” He talks about how coping with rising seas and temperatures is just as important as trying to prevent global warming by cutting emissions.
Like Gore, governmental officials across the globe aren’t saying everyone should just give up on efforts to reduce pollution. They’re saying that as they work on curbing carbon, they also have to deal with a reality that’s already here.
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