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Report: Samsung Will Roll Out 5G By 2020, Promising 1Gbps Download
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9 Ways To Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill
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Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100m Facebook Profiles Off BitTorrent
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So Much For Freedom Of Information...
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The State Of Internet Music On YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Facebook
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How Great Data Graphics Tap Into Your Caveman Brain
Your brain isn’t designed to digest a big matrix of numbers and then just burp out knowledge. It is designed to spot and recognise patterns, and it’s been trained to do that over thousands of years.
Megabytes: Never (Accidentally) Go Over Your Mobile Data Limit Again
Sure, most mobile phone carriers are more than happy to alert you to how much precious data you’ve been using up, but these little warnings usually don’t come until you’re dangerously near the monthly limit. Megabytes keeps track of your data usage for you, and makes sure you’re always aware of exactly where you stand.
A Look Behind The Scenes Of The Internet Archive’s Impossible Task
Last year, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the “online Library of Alexandria” reached 10 petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes accessible to anyone. Wow.
Possibly The Best Music Discovery System Ever
In the digital age of “nichification” it’s often easier to find lots of things you already like, while inadvertently walling yourself off from experiencing new things that you don’t know about yet. When it comes to music, recommendation systems like Pandora’s can help you discover music you may not have heard before, but that music is going to be related to the genre you’re already listening to.
Who Actually Uses Maths At Work?
Let’s admit it together. We all kind of suck at maths. It’s OK! Numbers are evil. Back in high school when you were forced to struggle through algebra and geometry and algebra again, you probably thought to yourself when in the hell would you ever use all those stupid theories, equations and computational silliness in real life. And the truth is you won’t use them! Who needs maths!
All The Different Animal Flus You Could Possibly Catch
The internet is often awash with news of new types of flu — spread from pigs, birds and all kinds of other creatures — but it’s not easy to tell which ones you should really be worried about. Fortunately, this visualisation explains exactly which strains you can pick up and just how dangerous they are.
Hollow Fibre Optic Tunnels Can Blast Data At Practically The Speed Of Light
We all want faster downloads, and developments like graphene antennas promise a speedy future. There is an upper limit — the speed of light — but that should be fast enough, right? Well, a new kind of hollow fibre optic cable promises to get us 99.7 per cent of the way there.
