Splunk and Ford collaborated on a project that melds big data and vehicle information. Expect enterprise applications to follow.
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Acer Models its Latest $199.99 Chromebook After the Impressive C720
Acer’s C720 Chromebook is basically everything you could want from a $249 laptop, but apparently the company thinks it can still bring that price down a bit further. Today it’s introducing the Chromebook C720-2848, a $199.99 “entry-level” model that’s nearly identical to the already-cheap C720. They differ in one key area, though: the C720-2848 includes 2GB of RAM, whereas the $249 model offers twice that amount. That memory reduction seems to account for the $50 difference in price, as they appear to match up on all other specifications.
The C720-2848 features the same 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 display, the same Intel Haswell Celeron processor, and the same 16GB of flash storage space as the C720. And the exterior design has also gone…
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Development Release: Mageia 4 Beta 1
Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the first beta release of Mageia 4: “Finally we did it! Mageia 4 beta 1 has been, for sure, the most difficult release we had to face since the beginning of the Mageia project. Lots of good and bad reasons here….
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Open Hardware for Education With LittleBits Library of Electronic Modules
Littlebits is disrupting the open hardware space. It’s “an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.” The company is the invention of Ayah Bdeir, an MIT graduate and TED senior fellow, and was founded in September 2011.
This is the normal for our kids: piecing together parts to make something they want to use, and being creators not just consumers! For one, many parents in the western world are having children later in life. Women often delay having a baby until they start a career, finish graduate school, or have more disposable income. A large majority of these mothers are highly educated and tend to be savvy consumers. Bear in mind, women are the leading or sole breadwinner in 40% of American households with children under 18.
Here are the 5 big reasons why littleBits is exciting and different:
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