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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | John Naughton
One of the most pernicious misconceptions we have about digital technology is that it is – somehow – weightless, frictionless and dematerialised. You press a button on your phone, launch an app and there it is. What you don’t realise is that you just triggered an interaction with an unfathomable infrastructure of network towers, fibreoptic cables and huge aluminium sheds located somewhere else on the planet. The technology may seem magical but, in reality, it has a heavy material footprint.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | John Naughton
The commercial interests of US tech giants has fused with the country’s national interests. We’re about to find out what ‘digital sovereignty’ really means Here’s an interesting timeline.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | John Naughton
Elon Musk has gone full blitzkrieg in his mission to ‘eliminate’ waste in the US federal government Reid Hoffman was recently in Cambridge, where I work. Who he? He’s one of the “PayPal mafia”, a group of former employees or founders of the online payments system who used their share of the proceeds when eBay paid $1.5bn for the business in 2002 to found other tech companies. These included LinkedIn, Palantir, SpaceX, YouTube and Yammer.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | John Naughton
Electricity grids are the most complicated, and critical, machines societies posses On 28 April, at about 10.30 GMT, the electricity grid in Spain and Portugal went down. A sudden outage in part of the Spanish grid caused the country’s interconnection with the French grid to trip like a blown fuse.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | John Naughton
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a supposedly independent agency of the US federal government that was set up in 1950 to support fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Today, it funds about a quarter of all federally supported basic research that goes on in American colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics and the social sciences, the NSF is the main source of federal funding.
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