We are now connected more than ever. We communicate with friends and family through social media; handle banking transactions, shop and communicate with our friends and colleagues online; transfer confidential files and sensitive information via email; and more.
Google guards against shark attacks
Reports of sharks attacking undersea fiber optic cables have actually been happening since the 1980s. This phenomenon is something that has recently caught media attention as footage of sharks aggressively biting undersea fiber-optic cables have resurfaced on the Internet.
Make memories last: properly archive your photos
Ah, file storage. The perennial problem of having to organize digital photos and making sure that they’re easily located for future reference is a dilemma that a lot of us face – and most especially by those among us who are trigger happy or just plain sentimental (and who isn’t). Then there’s the additional challenge of making sure that your files will retain their integrity well into the future. Here are a few tips for ensuring that your photos get properly archived and your priceless memories protected:
Crazy fast large storage: 4 TB SAS 2.5″ SSD
SanDisk is coming out with the Optimus MAX is a crazy amount of storage in a flash-based solid state drive: 4 TeraBytes!! All of this in a 2.5″ form factor. They are claiming sequential read/write speeds up to 400/400 MB/s and random read/write speeds of up to 75,000/15,000 IOPS! (Input/Output Operations Per Second)
A New Twist on 3D Modeling
Even though 3-D printers are becoming more and more affordable, the much needed 3D modeling software is still proving to be extremely complex for the average consumer to manipulate. Sixense is a virtual reality software firm that is trying to make the user’s experience more intuitive and engaging by introducing the new MakeVR technology.
Third World Portable USB OS – Keepod
A new UK-based company is attempting to bridge the digital gap in Third World countries with the new Portable USB OS Drive called Keepod. The inspiration behind this noble enterprise came from a small 500,000 resident community in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. There is no safe water supply and basic sanitation is completely non-existent. There is no education system except for unorganized, smaller “street schools” that are run by inexperienced and undereducated adults who are trying to offer their children a better future. Only 10% of school-age children manage to go to college. As you might imagine, digital technologies and Internet access is a luxury that these people simply cannot afford.