A recent article in the NYTIMES details the new market battleground between ARM designs, which are licensed by such Intel competitors as Qualcomm and Nvidia,3 and intels ATOM processor line. It renews the debate over whether a race to ultra low power mobile internet devices can replace a whole range of consumer uses for [...]
If you havent checked out the Education Arcade project give it a look. It looks at commercial game aspects in education in part, which is a tricky distinction. I had read an earlier book a couple of years ago, “What Video Games have to teach us about Learning and Literacy” by James Paul Gee, which [...]
Mesh networking components such as zigbee radios amongst others seem to enjoy a certain popularity amongst open source hardware advocates, even though they are often criticized for being hobbyist technology. The recent use mesh networks for the OLPC and third world low cost connectivity though has been an interesting sweet-spot in the deployment of [...]
The Riemann hypothesis, one of the millennium prizes offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute, has had a long and varied history attempts upon it: the conjectures really boil down to assessing how close the current approximation of n / ln n primes less than a given number the solution truly is. So it ends up [...]
